VON BLOEKER, John “Jack” Christian Jr. (1909-1991), mammologist who participated in the Los Angeles Museum Channel Islands Biological Survey (1939-1941) and biologist with the Department of Life Sciences, Los Angeles City College. Von Bloeker was a former graduate student of Joseph Grinnell. While on Santa Cruz Island in 1939, he collected 111 specimens of bats in a maternity colony at Prisoners’ Harbor. A juvenile flicker was collected August 15, 1939. In 1965 Von Bloeker presented a paper on island mammals at the first California Islands Symposium held at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. In the early 1960s he joined the board of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, and became the first editor of their publications. Von Bloeker visited all eight California Channel Islands. A new species of flea, Catallagia vonbloekeri, he collected on Santa Rosa Island deer mice, was named in his honor. Von Bloeker died in Pima, Arizona on March 29, 1991. On April 19, 1937 he married Ona Belle Schneider (1917-2005), and they had two children:
Ona L. (b. 1937)
John Christian (b. 1938)
Jack Von Bloeker collected on all eight California Channel Islands.
Ona L. (b. 1937)
John Christian (b. 1938)
Jack Von Bloeker collected on all eight California Channel Islands.
VON BLOEKER, John “Jack” Christian Jr. (1909-1991), mammologist who participated in the Los Angeles Museum Channel Islands Biological Survey (1939-1941) and biologist with the Department of Life Sciences, Los Angeles City College. Von Bloeker was a former graduate student of Joseph Grinnell. While on Santa Cruz Island in 1939, he collected 111 specimens of bats in a maternity colony at Prisoners’ Harbor. A juvenile flicker was collected August 15, 1939. In 1965 Von Bloeker presented a paper on island mammals at the first California Islands Symposium held at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. In the early 1960s he joined the board of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, and became the first editor of their publications. Von Bloeker visited all eight California Channel Islands. A new species of flea, Catallagia vonbloekeri, he collected on Santa Rosa Island deer mice, was named in his honor. Von Bloeker died in Pima, Arizona on March 29, 1991. On April 19, 1937 he married Ona Belle Schneider (1917-2005), and they had two children:
Ona L. (b. 1937)
John Christian (b. 1938)
Jack Von Bloeker collected on all eight California Channel Islands.
Ona L. (b. 1937)
John Christian (b. 1938)
Jack Von Bloeker collected on all eight California Channel Islands.
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