James Ellis Humphrey (1861 - 1897)
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Biography
1861 August 5, born in Weymouth, Massachusetts
1877 graduates from high school, appointed master of North Weymouth grammar school
1886 earns B.S. from Harvard, works as lab assistant in botany
1887 appointed instructor in botany at Indiana University
1888 appointed botanist at Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, does work on parasitic fungi
1892 earns D.Sc. From Harvard for work on the Saprolegniaceae, spends three months in Jamaica, collecting plants
1893 studies with Edward Adolf Strasburger in Bonn; upon return home, holds an ascending series of positions at Johns Hopkins University
1897 returns to Jamaica with several Johns Hopkins students to work in the university's marine laboratory; here he suddenly becomes ill and dies
Although his career was very short, James Ellis Humphrey seems to have really impressed everyone he worked with. I imagine that his interest in the Saprolegniaceae is what got his student Coker interested in the same topic.
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Sources
Harry Baker Humphrey (1961) Makers of North American Botany
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Selected Publications
James Ellis HumphreyBotanical Micro-techniqueThis is a translation of a German textbook by Zimmermann; no such text existed in the U.S. It was Humphrey's contribution to the trend towards a more lab-oriented botany in America.
James Ellis HumphreyNucleolen and Centrosomen
James Ellis HumphreyComparative Morphology of the Fungi
James Ellis HumphreyOn Monilia fructigena
James Ellis HumphreyThe Rotting of Lettuce
James Ellis Humphrey (1892) "The Saprolegniaceae of the United States with notes on other species" in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 17 pp. 64 - 148
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Genera
Thraustotheca J. E. Humphrey
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