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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 20 May 2010

Royal Dallas Suttkus (1920–2009)

Page Range: 341 – 345
DOI: 10.1643/OT-10-001
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Copyright: 2010 by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
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Lieutenant Royal Suttkus, U.S. Army 686th Field Artillery Battalion, at Table Rock Camp, Fort Hood, Texas, August, 1944.

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Fig. 2

Suttkus, then a doctoral student at Cornell, holding lake trout taken from Saranac Lake, New York, while working for New York Game and Fish in summer 1947.

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The Suttkus Family in New Orleans, 1956. From left, son Jayson, Suttkus, daughters Ramona and Jan, and wife, Jeanne.

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Suttkus working in the fish collection in 1958 on Tulane's uptown campus, before the collection outgrew its space and was relocated to the F. Edward Hebert Research Center in Belle Chasse, LA.

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Suttkus piloting a johnboat on the Pearl River in the late 1960s, one of the environmental consulting surveys he conducted on large rivers of the Gulf South with long time colleague, the late Gerald R. Gunning.

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A photo of Suttkus from fall 2000 in the fish collection that was named in his honor.

Contributor Notes

1 Tulane University Museum of Natural History, Bunker A-3 Wild Boar Road, Belle Chasse, Louisiana 70037 E-mail: hank@museum.tulane.edu.
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