Lucien M. Turner

Lucien McShan Turner (1848–1909) was an American ethnologist and naturalist.

Biography

Turner was born in 1848. He was elnlisted into Army Signal Corps where he collected species that had to do with ethnology and natural history, which he kept at the Smithsonian Institution. From 1874 to 1877, he was a meteorological observer for the Alaskan Signal Service at St. Michael. From 1878 to 1881 trained volunteers for the Service on the Aleutian Islands. A year later he was sent to Fort Chimo as an observer where he remained till his return to Washington in 1884. He died in 1909.^[1]

References

External links

• Works by Lucien Turner at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Lucien M. Turner at Internet Archive