Dutcher, Basil Hicks

Hume, Col. Edgar Erskine. ORNITHOLOGISTS of the UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL CORPS: THIRTY SIX BIOGRAPHIES. Baltimore. Johns Hopkins Press (1942). pp 105-129: VI. Basil Hicks Dutcher (1871 - 1922), Colonel, Medical Corps, United States Army. Son of a well known ornithologist, William Dutcher, and Catherine Price, his wife, Basil Hicks Dutcher was born at Bergen Point, New Jersey on 3 December 1871. He graduated (Ph. B) from the Columbia School of Mines in 1892 and received his M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1895. ... Dutcher received his medical degree in 1895 and then took and passed the examination for admission to the Medical Corps of the United States Army. He was commissioned Assistant Surgeon on 26 October 1896. His induction records describe him as: Age 24 11/12ths; 66 inches tall; weight 117 pounds; blue eyes; flaxen hair; fair complexion; and no physical defects noted. He graduated at the Army Medical School in 1897. Subsequent promotions were as follows: Captain 26 October 1901; Major 23 April 1908; Lieutenant Colonel 1 July 1916; and Colonel 15 May, 1917. A close friend and fellow naturalist for whom Dutcher worked as an assistant in the U.S. Biological Survey in 1890 (while an 18 year old college sophomore) named a species of meadow mouse Microtus dutcheri and designated the pocket mouse Perognathus merriami gilvus as the Dutcher Pocket Mouse in his honor. The biography includes a summary of the station list from his service record: Army Medical School from 4 November 1896 to 13 March 1897; 20 March to 14 December 1897 served at Fort Leavenworth, KS; December 1897 to December 1898 served at Fort Grant, AZ ... Source: http://www.witsend.org/gen/dutcher/wmdobit.htm

J Am Med Assoc. 1922;78(5):366: Basil Hicks Dutcher, Colonel, M. C., Chase, Md.; U.S. Army, Chevy Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, 1895; died, January 16, after a long illness, at the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C. Colonel Dutcher was born in New Jersey, Dec. 3, 1871 ; graduated from the Army Medical School, 1897; was commissioned assistant surgeon with the rank of lieutenant, M. C, U. S. Army, October, 1896; lieutenant-colonel, July, 1916, and colonel, May, 1917; retired from active service, Jan. 28, 1920, on account of physical disability. During the World War Colonel Dutcher took a hospital unit to Plymouth, England, and later was in charge of a hospital at Brest, France; while on active duty he served in the Philippine Islands, Panama, Porto Rico and Arizona