Hermon Carey Bumpus

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Hermon Carey Bumpus
5th President of Tufts College
In office
1915–1919
Preceded byWilliam Leslie Hooper
Succeeded byJohn Albert Cousens
Personal details
Born(1862-05-05)May 5, 1862
Buckfield, Maine
DiedJune 21, 1943(1943-06-21) (aged 81)
Pasadena, California
Alma materBrown University, Clark University

Hermon Carey Bumpus (May 5, 1862 – June 21, 1943)[1] was an American biologist, museum director, and the fifth president of Tufts College (later Tufts University).

Early life and education

Hermon Carey Bumpus was born in

Olivet College. Bumpus received his Ph.D. from Clark University
in 1891.

Bumpus joined the faculty of Brown as a professor of comparative zoology in 1890, where he emphasized active experimentation over the "didactic doldrums" of lectures.[2] In 1893, Bumpus worked with colleagues Charles V. Chapin and John Howard Appleton in establishing a premedical program, one of the first premedical programs in the United States, with Bumpus as the director.[2] Bumpus also established a Medical Association for physicians of Providence; in 1896 Bumpus demonstrated a Holtz machine to this group. He actually took the first x-ray images in Rhode Island around this time.[2] His comparison of house sparrows that survived an uncommonly severe storm in 1898 with those that did not, including their respective measurements, has been cited as a classic example of natural selection in action.[3]

Bumpus received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Brown University in 1905.[4] He received an honorary Doctor of Science from Tufts in 1905 and an honorary LL.D. from Clark in 1909. He was an elected member of both the

University of Wisconsin
.

Career at Tufts

Bumpus became president of

Universalist
; he had been chosen specifically because of his educational and administrative experience. He served president until 1919.

Sources

  1. PMID 17741314
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  2. ^ a b c Cassedy, James H. (1962). Charles V. Chapin and the Public Health Movement. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 33–34.
  3. ^ Lowther, Peter (24 September 2014). "Hermon Bumpus and House Sparrows". Field Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Honorary Degrees: 1900s". Brown University Corporation. Brown University. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  5. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  6. ^ "Hermon Carey Bumpus". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
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