Edwin Lincoln Moseley

Edwin Lincoln Moseley (March 29, 1865 – June 6, 1948) was an American naturalist, known for his work covering milk sickness and dendrochronology.

Biography Early life and education Moseley was born in 1865 in Union City Michigan, to a prohibitionist father, and a mother who was one of the first white children born on Hawaii. He was the maternal grandson of Hiram Bingham I and Sybil Moseley Bingham, He paid for his education mostly through his own work, with the exception of $150 he was gifted from family. A 1919 article in The Journal of Infectious Diseases identified this as the first organized systematic experiment conducted on the issue.

During his retirement Moseley wrote about a link between solar events and dendrochronology. and in October 1942 when Mosley published "Solar Influence on Variations in Rainfall in the Interior of the United States".

In 1943 Mosley was awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters by Bowling Green State University.

On April 28, 1948, in Dayton, Ohio, Moseley became ill; later dying on June 6, 1948, to coronary thrombosis.

Moseley wrote Other Worlds, a book on Astronomy published by The Appleton Century Company. The book was praised in a 1933 review published by the New York Times for its clear presentation of subject matter. The book grew out of an earlier article published in Scientific American, which speculated on the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

Personal life Moseley abstained from a number of substances, believing alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, and opium to be particularly harmful. He also publicly admonished students working in chemistry labs for gaining a chloroform habit.

Moseley promoted the conservation of barn owls.