Born: Warren, Rhode Island.
Died: Urbana, Illinois.
Education: Brown University. Jessup Scholar, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
Occupation: Malacologist; Ecologist. Worked at Ward's Natural History Establishment, N.Y. Curator of Zoology at the Field Museum, Chicago 1894. Curator at the Chicago Academy of Science 1894-1914. Curator at the University of Illinois Museum of Natural History 1918-1939. President of AMU 1941-1942.
Research Interests: Unionidae, Lymnaidae, Planorbidae, landsnails, Pleistocene Mollusca.
Data from: Abbott, R.T., and M.E. Young (eds.). 1973. American Malacologists: A national register of professional and amateur malacologists and private shell collectors and biographies of early American mollusk workers born between 1618 and 1900. American Malacologists, Falls Church, Virginia. Consolidated/Drake Press, Philadelphia. 494 pp.
Other References: Van Cleave, H.J. 1943. Frank Collins Baker (December 14, 1867 to May 7, 1942). Nautilus 56(3):97-99.
Published hundreds of papers on marine, freshwater and land mollusks.