A Scientist's Last Adventure Before He Passed: Discovering A New Species In The Valleys Of Ethiopia

A Scientist's Last Adventure Before He Passed: Discovering A New Species In The Valleys Of Ethiopia

A Scientist's Last Adventure Before He Passed: Discovering A New Species In The Valleys Of Ethiopia Before he passed away in 2015, Bill Stanley served as the collections manager at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.  “Bill exuded energy, boundless curiosity, and deep joy of living,” the Field Museum wrote in a memorial post.  “He was a master storyteller, capable of engaging everyone in his love of collections. Bill started at the Museum in 1989 as collection manager of mammals and spent the next quarter century caring for that collection, building it into one of the best and most visited mammal collections in the world.” Though he was based in Chicago, Stanley rarely stayed in one place for long. According to the museum, he devoted the majority of his career to field expeditions, which took him everywhere from “the mountains of Tanzania” to Uganda, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and beyond.  In late September 2015, while on one of his “field trips” to Ethiopia’…