Josselyn Van Tyne

Josselyn Van Tyne (11 May 190230 January 1957) was an American ornithologist and museum curator of birds.

A son of the historian Claude H. Van Tyne, Josselyn Van Tyne received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1925 and his Ph.D. in 1928 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He became assistant curator of birds at the University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology and in 1931 curator of birds, a position he held until his death; his successor was Harrison B. Tordoff. In 1930 Van Tyne became an instructor in the University of Michigan's Department of Zoology, then assistant professor, associate professor, and finally professor in 1953. In 1936 he was elected a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union and served as the Union's president from 1950 to 1953. a daughter of Henry Moore Bates.