Clement Samuel Brimley Explained

Clement Samuel Brimley
Birth Date:	18 December 1863
Birth Place:	Buckinghamshire, England
Citizenship:	American
Nationality:	English
Field:	Zoology
Work Institution:	North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Author Abbreviation Zoo:	C.S. Brimley

Clement Samuel Brimley (18 December 1863 – 23 July 1946) was a self-trained zoologist who worked at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. His brother, H.H. Brimley, was a zoologist and long-time director of the same museum. Both Brimley brothers are buried at Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh. Brimley's chorus frog and the firefly Photinus brimleyi^[1] were named for C.S. Brimley.

External links

• Collecting Nature: The Beginning of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences—accessed 19 June 2008
• Herps of North Carolina--Brimley's Chorus Frog
• University of Iowa, Museum of Natural History--A Whale for Iowa—accessed 19 June 2008
• Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Sciences Collection—accessed 19 June 2008
• Index to the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography—accessed 19 June 2008
• Historic Oakwood Cemetery—grave listings, accessed 27 June 2008

Notes and References

1. Book: Faust . Lynn Frierson . Fireflies, Glow-worms, and Lightning Bugs . 2017 . University of Georgia Press . 978-0-8203-4872-8.