Jacob Ellsworth Reighard

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Jacob Ellsworth Reighard (1861-1942) was an American zoologist.

Reighard was born at Laporte, Indiana, after graduating from the University of Michigan in 1882, and then studied at Harvard and Freiburg. After six years as instructor and assistant in zoology, in 1892 he became a professor at the University of Michigan. He was in charge of the Michigan Fish Commission in 1890-94, and in 1898 was appointed director of the biological survey of the Great Lakes under the United States Fish Commission. He contributed to many technical journals, and in 1901 published, in collaboration with Herbert Spencer Jennings, Anatomy of the Cat.

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References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Reighard, Jacob Ellsworth". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
Shull, A. Franklin (1942). "Jacob Ellsworth Reighard". Science. 95 (2466): 344–346. JSTOR 1667943.

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Daniel Coit Gilman was an American educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and subsequently served as the third president of the University of California, as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins; his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S."

External links

Anatomy of the cat. BookLab, Inc. 1901.
"Jacob Ellsworth Reighard Papers 1887-1942 (bulk 1890-1920)". University of Michigan: Bentley Historical Library. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
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