ASM History: Honorary Members.

In the most recently approved ASM Bylaws, it is stated: "Honorary membership is conferred by the Society in recognition of distinguished service to mammalogy" (Article II, Sec. 6, ASM Bylaws, approved 15 June 2021). Although Grinnell never was elected an Honorary Member of the ASM because of his untimely death at age 62, the training program he established at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, produced almost twice as many ASM Honorary Members than any other mammalogy program. Thirteen honorary members of the ASM received their advanced degrees at the University of California, Berkeley, nearly twice as many as second place University of Kansas, with seven honorary members. The founders of the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM), in the first Bylaws approved in 1919, established an honorary membership, writing: "Article II. [Extracted from the article]