Mayr also greatly influenced the American ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice.

Nice dedicated her book to " My Friend Ernst Mayr.

Ernst Mayr wrote that Nice almost single-handedly initiated a new era in American ornithology and the only effective counter movement against the list-chasing movement.

Stresemann was very impressed and suggested that, between semesters, Mayr could work as a volunteer in the ornithological section of the museum.

The Primitives temporarily added Tony Mayr as a bassist so that Tweedy could play guitar, but a month later the band decided to keep Tweedy on bass and remain a three-piece.

Mayr encouraged her to correspond with European ornithologists and helped her in her landmark study on song sparrows.

In 1931 she met Ernst Mayr at a meeting of the American Ornithologists ' Union ( AOU ), and he encouraged her to write and arranged the publishing the results of her studies.

* Mayr, E. ( 1976 ) Evolution and the Diversity of Life.

At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

After Mayr was appointed at the American Museum of Natural History, he influenced American ornithological research by mentoring young birdwatchers.

The awards that Mayr received include the National Medal of Science, the Balzan Prize, the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, the International Prize for Biology, the Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, and the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.

Reprinted in Philosophers and Machines, O. Mayr, editor, Science History Publications, 1976.

It enabled him to study at the British Museum, at the Berlin Zoological Museum under Erwin Stresemann and also at the American Museum of Natural History under Ernst Mayr.

* Mayr, Ernst.

The term clade was introduced in 1958 by Julian Huxley after having been coined by Lucien Cuénot in 1940, cladistic by Cain and Harrison in 1960, and cladist ( for an adherent of Hennig's school ) by Mayr in 1965.

Ernst Mayr remarks that the theory was hotly contested by some famous geneticists: William Bateson, Wilhelm Johannsen, Richard Goldschmidt and T. H.

Ernst Walter Mayr ( July 5, 1904 – February 3, 2005 ) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.

Ernst Mayr approached the problem with a new definition for the concept of species.

Mayr is sometimes credited with inventing modern philosophy of biology, particularly the part related to evolutionary biology, which he distinguished from physics due to its introduction of ( natural ) history into science.

Mayr was the second son of Helene Pusinelli and Dr. Otto Mayr.

In February 1923, Mayr passed his high school examination ( Abitur ) and his mother rewarded him with a pair of binoculars.

Raimund Schelcher ( 1891 – 1979 ) of the club then suggested that Mayr visit his classmate Erwin Stresemann on his way to Greifswald, where Mayr was to begin his medical studies.

Mayr wrote about this event, " It was as if someone had given me the key to heaven.

" Mayr was endlessly interested in ornithology and " chose Greifswald at the Baltic for my studies for no other reason than that ... it was situated in the ornithologically most interesting area.

" During the first semester break Stresemann gave him a test to identify treecreepers and Mayr was able to identify most of the specimens correctly.

Mayr completed his doctorate in ornithology at the University of Berlin under Dr. Carl Zimmer, who was a full professor ( Ordentlicher Professor ), on June 24, 1926 at the age of 21.

In New Guinea, Mayr collected several thousand bird skins ( he named 26 new bird species during his lifetime ) and, in the process also named 38 new orchid species.

Mayr was surprised at the differences between American and German birding societies.

Mayr organized a monthly seminar under the auspices of the Linnean Society of New York.

Death was simply a temporary interruption, rather than complete cessation, of life, and that eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through mummification, and the provision of statuary and other funerary equipment.

The marketing of Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True included advertisements in three UK music papers from which a poster of Costello could be constructed, and the first 1, 000 pressings contained an insert headed Help Us Hype Elvis, which, if completed and returned to Stiff, ensured that a friend would received a free copy.

No doubt one of the attractions was that the game could be played by both sexes ; this also ensured a certain amount of adverse comment.

In terms of content, enforcement of the Production Code ensured that no film character could literally get away with murder or be seen sharing a bed with anyone but a spouse ; within those bounds, however, many films now identified as noir feature plot elements and dialogue that were very risqué for the time.

Gladiators could subscribe to a union ( collegia ) which ensured proper burial, with compensation for wives and children.

Weights hanging from the strap ensured that an adjustable and predictable friction could be calculated.

Ribbentrop in turn sent out instructions to the German Ambassador in Warsaw, Count Hans-Adolf von Moltke, that if Poland agreed to the German demands, then Germany would ensure that Poland could partition Slovakia with Hungary and be ensured of German support for annexing the Ukraine.

However, the preemptive destruction of the French fleet by the British by an attack on Mers-el-Kébir and the scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon two years later ensured that this could not happen.

Some classical poetry forms, such as Venpa of the Tamil language, had rigid grammars ( to the point that they could be expressed as a context-free grammar ) which ensured a rhythm.

Additionally, this requirement ensured that only other republics could join the union.

While the book was readable enough to sell, its dryness ensured that it was seen as aimed at specialist scientists and could not be dismissed as mere journalism or imaginative fiction.

The secret ballot method ensured that the privacy of voters would be protected ( hence government jobs could no longer be awarded to loyal voters ) and each state would be responsible for creating one official ballot.

In the event, a court was not actually established until the Court Bill was passed in 1783, but even then the vested interests ensured that Suckling could still not take up his position, and the islands had a court but no judge.

British commercial interests in South America, which comprised a valuable component of the Informal Empire that accompanied Britain's imperial possessions, and the economic importance of the United States as a trading partner, ensured that intervention by Britain's rival European powers could not engage with the Americas.

Through these and other rulings, Reed ensured that the Democrats could not block the Republican agenda.

Although they could not inherit the throne, they did receive the royal title of Thampi and were members of the Ammaveedus which ensured a comfortable living and all royal luxuries.

Ajax could, however, still get second place, which would have ensured a place in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League.

The explorer later reported how it was only the arrival of an advance party of Chirikov's division in June with 27 tons of flour that ensured his party ( by then diminished in numbers ) could be fed.

the non papers produced in 1998 and 1999 ensured that when the UN Commission met in 2000 it could agree to host another Summit in 2002.

Its height ensured an accurate result ; no moving air could disturb it ; and on weekends, the lack of pedestrian traffic ensured virtually no local vibrations.

Periodic land reforms broke up large estates and ensured that powerful landowners could not emerge.

His lawyers argued that he did the most good he could, given the circumstances, and ensured that those to be deported were treated well while in his custody.

These restrictive practices had a number of consequences: they made the taking of silk something of a professional risk, because appointment abolished at a stroke some of the staple work of the junior barrister ; they made the use of leading Counsel more expensive, and therefore ensured that they were retained only in more important cases, and they protected the work of the junior bar, which could not be excluded by the retention of leading Counsel.