Arthur White Greeley
Born(1875-06-13)June 13, 1875
Oswego, New York
DiedMarch 15, 1904(1904-03-15) (aged 28)
St. Louis, Missouri
NationalityAmerican
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Arthur White Greeley (June 13 1875 – March 15, 1904) was an American physiologist and ichthyologist. Greeley was born in Oswego, New York, the eldest of two sons of Frank Norton Greeley, a Congregational clergyman, and Anna Cheney (Buckhout) Greeley. His brother William would go on to become chief forester of the U.S. Forest Service.[1] He graduated from Stanford University in 1898, and spent one year as a graduate student in zoology, during which he went to Alaska with the fur-seal expedition and to Brazil with the Banner-Agassiz expedition, where he made most of the biological collections.[2] The following year he was an instructor at San Diego Normal School (now San Diego State University), leaving there to enter the University of Chicago as fellow in physiology. Two years later he took his doctorate of philosophy under Jacques Loeb with a thesis on the action of low temperatures on micro-organisms, and was then appointed Assistant Professor of Zoology at the Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. For three summers he was a member of the staff of instruction in physiology at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Hole, Massachusetts. He died in St. Louis, after an operation for appendicitis, on March 15, 1904, at the age of twenty-eight.[3]

Greeley described several species of sculpin, including the saddleback sculpin, rosy sculpin, fluffy sculpin and the bald sculpin. He is commemorated in the names of the fish genus Greeleya and Sphoeroides greeleyi,[4] as well as the sea slug Diaulula greeleyi,[5] and the sea snail Crassispira greeleyi.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Yale University. Dept. of Forestry (1913). Biographical Record of the Graduates and Former Students of the Yale Forest School. Yale Forest School. pp. 77–78.
  2. ↑ Rathbun, Mary J. (1900). "Results of the Branner-Agassiz expedition to Brazil. I. The Decapod and Stomatopod Crustacea". Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 2: 133–156.
  3. ↑ Mathews, A. P. (June 1904). "Arthur W. Greeley". Biological Bulletin. 7 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1086/BBLv7n1p1.
  4. ↑ Gilbert, Charles H. (1900). "Results of the Branner-Agassiz expedition to Brazil. III. The fishes". Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 2: 161–184.
  5. ↑ MacFarland, Frank Mace (1908). "The Opithsobranchiate Mollusca of the Branner-Agassiz Expedition to Brazil". Leland Stanford Junior University Publications: University Series (2): 88.
  6. ↑ Dall, William Healey (1902). "Results of the Branner-Agassiz expedition to Brazil. V. Mollusks from the vicinity of Pernambuco". Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 3: 139–147.


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