Charles Harvey Bollman (1868–1889) was an American naturalist who published on fishes and myriapods, becoming known internationally for his work in a short career before dying at the age of 20, considered by David Starr Jordan one of the most brilliant and promising naturalists he had ever known.
He attended the Indiana University at Bloomington where he studied under John C. Branner[2] and David Starr Jordan.
Bollman was a founding member of the university's Independent Literary Society.
[3] He graduated in June 1889 and was appointed immediately after as an assistant in the United States Fish Commission, and died of dysentery contracted while collecting fish in the Okefenokee Swamp of Waycross, Georgia, on July 13.
[10] He was posthumously commemorated by Jordan in the name of the goby genus Bollmannia,[11] by C. H. Gilbert in the fish Opsopoeodus bollmani,[12] and by Filippo Silvestri, who named the millipede genus Bollmania.