Arthur S. Pearse

(1877-1956) born at Crete, lived at Beatrice, Lincoln, and Omaha. Educator, zoologist, considered one of pioneer ecologists who taught at several colleges, notably the University of Wisconsin from 1912 to 1926 and Duke University from 1927 to 1949; known as founder of Duke University Marine Laboratory at Beaufort, North Carolina in 1938, conducted throughout his career several investigations of animal ecology, parasites, fishes, and crustaceans, authored more than 150 papers and eight books, including the textbook Animal Ecology (1926), and was founding editor of Ecological Monographs from 1930 to 1950. Consult UNL Nebraska Alumnus, April 1928, p. 172 and Arthur S. Pearse's autobiography Adventure ... Trying To Be A Zoologist (Duke University, 1952) and obituaries in New York Times, December 13, 1956, p. 37 and Science, Vol 125 (April 5, 1957) 635-636 and World Who's Who in Science (Marquis, 1968) 1320-1321.

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