Francis Bertody Sumner
American ichthyologist, zoologist and writer
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Francis Bertody Sumner (August 1, 1874 – September 6, 1945) was an American ichthyologist, zoologist and writer.[1][2]
Francis Bertody Sumner | |
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Sumner in 1923 | |
| Born | August 1, 1874 |
| Died | September 6, 1945 (aged 71) |
| Education | Columbia University |
| Spouse | Margaret Elizabeth Clark |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology |
| Workplaces | U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Sumner was born in Pomfret, Connecticut. He studied at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University where in 1901 he received a PhD with a thesis on fish embryology.[3] He became the Director of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Laboratory at Woods Hole. He worked as a professor of biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.[3][4] Sumner was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1937 and the American Philosophical Society in 1938.[5][6]
Sumner collected many subspecies of Peromyscus in California. He also studied the pigments of fishes.[3]
Publications
- A Biological Survey of the Waters of Woods Hole and Vicinity (1913)
- Heredity, Environment, and Responsibility (1921)
- Genetic, Distributional, and Evolutionary Studies of the Subspecies of Deer Mice (Peromyscus) (1932)
- The Life History of an American Naturalist (1945)
