Horace Jayne
Horace Jayne (5 March 1859 – 9 July 1913)[1] was an American zoölogist and educator.
Biography
He was born in Philadelphia, was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (A.B., 1879; M.D., 1882), and studied biology at the universities of Leipzig and Jena in 1882–1883 and at Johns Hopkins for a year. In 1884 he was appointed professor of vertebrate morphology at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy, University of Pennsylvania, and from 1894 to 1905 was professor of zoölogy and director of the institution; in the university he was secretary of the biological faculty (1884–1889) and dean of the college faculty (1889–1894). He became a trustee of Drexel Institute and served as coeditor of several scientific journals.[2]
He was married to the American ethnologist Caroline Furness Jayne. Their son, Horace H. F. Jayne, became the first curator of Chinese art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and later was director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Works
- Abnormalities Observed in the North American Coleoptera (1880)
- Revision of the Dermestidœ of North America (1882)
- Mammalian Anatomy (1898)
He was also the author of many scientific papers.[1]
References
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Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Jayne, Horace". Encyclopedia Americana. - ↑ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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