13 May 1856 – 1917
Born: Brooklyn, New York.
Died: New York ??
Occupation: Aid with the U.S. Geological Survey 1884-85; Principal, Moline High School, 1885-86; Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1887-88; science teacher, West Des Moines, Iowa, 1889-92; science teacher, Manual Training High School, Louisville, Kentucky, 1892-95; Superintendant of Schools, Lawrenceburg, Indiana, 1895-98; teacher, Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, New York, 1898-99; Curator, Childrens Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1899; teacher, DeWitt Clinton High School, New York City, 1905.
Education: Indiana University, Bloomington, A.B., 1890; A.M., 1891; Iowa State College, M.S., 1890; University of Louisville, College of Medicine, M.D., 1893; Ohio University, Athens, PhD., 1895.
Travels: Kansas, Indiana, Arkansas.
Collection Deposition: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (MCZ); Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS); University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ), and U.S. National Museum (USNM); Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP).
Research Interests: Unionidae and freshwater snails.
Data from: Johnson, R.I. 1975. R. Ellsworth Call with a bibliography of his works on mollusks and a catalogue of his taxa. Occasional Papers on Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 4(54):133-144.
Partial Bibliography
Call, R.E. 1878. Mode of distribution of fresh-water mussels. American Naturalist 12(7):472-473.
Call, R.E. 1879. Synonymous Unios. American Naturalist 13:392-393.
Call, R.E. 1880. Polymorphus Anodontae. American Naturalist 14:529-530.
Call, R.E. 1881. New Texan Unio. American Naturalist 15(5):390-391.
Call, R.E. 1881. Polymorphous Anotontae. Journal of Conchology 1881:186.
Call, R.E. 1884. On the Quaternary and Recent Mollusca of the Great Basin, with descriptions of new forms. Bulletin of the U.S. Geological Survey 11:358-421.
Call, R.E. 1885. A geographic catalogue of the Unionidae of the Mississippi valley. Bulletin of the Des Moines Academy of Science 1(1):5-57.
Call, R.E. 1885. Description of a new species of Unio from Kansas. Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History 1(2):48-49 + 1 plate.
Call, R.E. 1885. Contributions to a knowledge of the fresh-water Mollusca of Kansas. I. Fresh-water bivalves. Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History 1(2):49-51.
Call, R.E. 1885. Contributions to a knowledge of the fresh-water Mollusca of Kansas. II. Fresh-water univalves. Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History 1(2):51-54.
Call, R.E. 1885. Contributions to a knowledge of the fresh-water Mollusca of Kansas. III. Fresh-water bivalves. Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History 1(3):93-97.
Call, R.E. 1885. Contributions to a knowledge of the fresh-water Mollusca of Kansas. IV. Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History 1(4):115-124.
Call, R.E. 1886. On the genus Campeloma, Rafinesque, with a revision of the species, recent and fossil. Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History 1(5):151-168 + 3 plates.
Call, R.E. 1886. Fifth contribution to a knowledge of the fresh-water Mollusca of Kansas. Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History 1(6):177-184.
Call, R.E. 1886. Description of a new strepomatid mollusk of the genus Goniobasis. Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History 1(7):189-190.
Call, R.E., and C.E. Beecher. 1886. Description of a new rissoid mollusk. Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History 1(7):190-192.
Call, R.E. 1886. Notes on the land Mollusca of the Washburn College Biological Survey of Kansas. Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History 1(7):201-206.
Call, R.E. 1886. On certain recent, Quaternary, and new fresh-water Mollusca. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences 5:1-8.
Call, R.E., and H.A. Pilsbry. 1886. On Pyrgulopsis, a new genus of rissoid mollusk, with descriptions of two new forms. Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences 5:2-14 + 1 plate.
Call, R.E. 1887. Descriptions of two new species of the genus Unio from the Ozark region of Missouri. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 10:498-500 + 2 plates.
Call, R.E. 1887. Sixth contribution to a knowledge of the fresh-water Mollusca of Kansas. Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History 2(8):11-25.
Call, R.E. 1887. Note on the ctenidium of Unio aberti Conrad. American Naturalist 21(9):857-860.
Call, R.E. 1889. The parvus group of Unionidæ. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science 1(1):45-51.
Call, R.E. 1894. A contribution to a knowledge of Indiana Mollusca. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 1893(3):140-156.
Call, R.E. 1895. The Unionidae of the Ohio River. (Abstract). Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 1894:139-140.
Call, R.E. 1895. A study of the Unionidae of Arkansas, with incidental reference to their distribution in the Mississippi Valley. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 1899:621.
Call, R.E. 1895. A study of the Unionidae of Arkansas, with incidental reference to their distribution in the Mississippi valley. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 7(1):1-64 + 21 plates.
Call, R.E. 1895. The life and writings of Rafinesque. Filson Club Publications, John P. Morton and Company, Louisville No. 10, author’s edition.
Call, R.E. 1896. Illustrations of little known Unionidae. Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 18(3-4):157-160 + 1 plate.
Call, R.E. 1896. A revision and synonymy of the parvus group of Unionidae. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 1895:109-119 + 6 plates.
Call, R.E. 1896. Second contribution to a knowledge of Indiana Mollusca. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 1895:135-146.
Call, R.E. 1896. On a small collection of mollusks from northern Indiana. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 1895:246-250.
Call, R.E. 1896. Fishes and shells of the Falls of the Ohio. pp. 9-20 in Memorial History of Louisville, Vol. 1 [Publisher unknown] ?? pp.
Call, R.E. 1897. The hydrographic basins of Indiana and their molluscan fauna. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 1896(6):247-257 + 1 map.
Call, R.E. 1900. A descriptive illustrated catalogue of the Mollusca of Indiana. Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources, 24th Annual Report 1899:335-535 + 78 plates.