Rollin Harold Baker

Rollin Baker graduated from Austin High School, and received a B.A. in zoology from the University of Texas and a M.S. in entomology from Texas A&M before earning his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. He served as an early field biologist for the Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission from 1939 to 1943, and after World War II, taught at the University of Kansas and Michigan State University. On retirement, he settled in Eagle Lake, Texas, where he returned to an interest in Texas wildlife, writing The Biological Survey of Colorado County, 1937-1939, Texas Wildlife Conservation – Historical Notes (1995), and serving in leadership roles in the Texas Society of Mammalogy.