Reeve Maclaren Bailey (born May 2, 1911, Fairmont, West Virginia[1] – died July 2, 2011, Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American ichthyologist.
Born in West Virginia, Bailey was raised in Perrysburg and Toledo, Ohio. In 1944, he returned to University of Michigan as a curator of fishes at the Museum of Zoology. He conducted extensive field research in the U.S., Bermuda, Guatemala, Bolivia, Paraguay, Zambia, and Thailand. Bailey was awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Michigan in 1938.[2] Bailey was the president of the American Fisheries Society in 1974–1975.[2]
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- ^ a b Regents of the University of Michigan. "Memoir - Faculty History Project". University of Michigan#Millennium Project. University of Michigan. Retrieved November 1, 2020.