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Henry Weed Fowler (March 23, 1878 – June 21, 1965) was an American zoologist born in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania.
He studied at Stanford University under David Starr Jordan. He joined the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and worked as an assistant from 1903 to 1922, associate curator of vertebrates from 1922 to 1934, curator of fish and reptiles from 1934 to 1940 and curator of fish from 1940 to 1965.
He published material on numerous topics including crustaceans, birds, reptiles and amphibians, but his most important work was on fish. In 1927 he co-founded the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and acted as treasurer until the end of 1927.
Fowler, Henry W. 1903. "Life colors of Poecilia limantouri and description of a new Heros from Mexico". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 63; 493-520 (ffm01106)
Fowler, Henry W. 1903. "Notes on a Few Fishes from the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 55:346-350 (ffm02673)
Fowler, Henry W. 1906. "Descriptions of two new species of Centropomus". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 58:423-428 (ffm00550)
Fowler, Henry W. 1913. "Notes on catostomoid fishes". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 65:45-60 (ffm00378)
Fowler, Henry W & B.A. Bean. 1923. "Descriptions of eighteen new species of fishes from the Wilkes Exploring Expedition, preserved in the United States National Museum". Proceeding of the United States National Museum. 63(2488):1-27 (ffm00365)
Fowler, Henry W. 1923. "Fishes from Nicaragua". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ffm00227)
Fowler, Henry W. 1936. "Fresh-water fishes obtained in Guatemala by Mr. Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee in 1935". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 87; 515-531 (ffm01064)
Fowler, Henry W. 1939. "Description of the red toadfish, a new species of Opsanus from Florida". Notulae Naturae. (31):1-2 (ffm00502)
Fowler, Henry W. 1943. "A new poeciliid fish from Honduras". Notulae Naturae. (117):1-3 (ffm00013)
Fowler, Henry W. 1945. "A study of the fishes of the southern Piedmont and coastal plain". Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (7):1-408 (ffm00102)
Fowler, Henry W. 1950. "Results of the Catherwood-Chaplin West Indies Expedition, 1948. Part III. The fishes". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 102:69-93 (ffm00020)
Fowler, Henry W. 1956. "Description of a new species of Cichlaurus from the Belize River of British Honduras". Not. Nat. (Philadelphia). 1-4 (ffm00255)