A Biological Survey of the Waters of Woods Hole and Vicinity, Part 2
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A Biological Survey Of The Waters Of Woods Hole And Vicinity, Part 1; Volume 31; Volume 1911 Of Bulletin (United States. Bureau Of Fisheries); A Biological Survey Of The Waters Of Woods Hole And Vicinity; United States. Bureau Of Fisheries; Volume 31 Of Bulletin Of The Bureau Of Fisheries
Francis Bertody Sumner, United States. Bureau of Fisheries, Raymond Carroll Osburn, Leon Jacob Cole, Bradley Moore Davis
Govt. Print. Off., 1913
Science; Life Sciences; Biology; Marine Biology; Marine animals; Marine biology; Marine fauna; Marine flora; Marine plants; Nature / Fish; Nature / Marine Life; Science / Life Sciences / Biology / Marine Biology
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New York Academy of Sciences; Memoirs, Volume II, Part II, pp. 47-83, October 15, 1900. Article III. Kupffer's Vesicle and Its Relation to Gastrulation and Concrescence
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Francis Bertody Sumner was an American ichthyologist, zoologist and writer. He made long series of breeding experiments and demonstrated that the accumulation of minor adaptive characteristics was a major factor in the evolution of the various geographic races. This study in the interrelationships between heredity and environment is regarded as his most important contribution.
Background
Francis was born on August 1, 1874 in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States. He was the second son and second of three children of Arthur and Mary Augusta (Upton) Sumner. Both parents, nominally Unitarians, were of old New England stock, chiefly of English descent. Francis's paternal grandfather, Bradford Sumner, was a Boston lawyer of some prominence. His father after the Civil War had been principal of a school for freed Negroes in Charleston, South Carolina, where his mother also taught.
When Francis was a few months old the family moved to a small farm near Oakland, California, where they lived a somewhat austere and isolated existence, supported by a small inheritance and gifts from more prosperous relatives.
Arthur Sumner, a man of scholarly tastes but impractical and moody, was a stern disciplinarian. His wife, though energetic and generous, was governed by her emotions and had few intellectual interests. The clash of temperaments generated domestic friction, and Francis grew up largely alienated from his parents.
Education
Until he was ten he was taught by his father and, lacking companionship, immersed himself in collecting and studying insect and reptile specimens. In 1884 the family moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where Sumner for the first time went to school, and three years later to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he attended a private academy and, at the age of sixteen, entered the University of Minnesota.
At first attracted to philosophy and psychology, he came under the influence of the zoologist Henry F. Nachtrieb, who crystallized his already strong inclinations toward natural history.
He entered the graduate school at Columbia University in 1895; there he studied zoology under Edmund B. Wilson.
Career
After receiving the B. S. degree in 1894, he took a year off and journeyed by ocean to South America in the hope of improving his somewhat frail health.
In 1899 Sumner went to the Egyptian Sudan on an expedition, sponsored by Columbia, which hoped to secure material for embryological studies on an archaic fish, Polypterus. He later spent some time at the Zoological Station at Naples, Italy. He received the Ph. D. from Columbia in 1901, with a thesis on "Kupffer's Vesicle and Its Relation to Gastrulation and Concrescence, " which involved pioneering experimentation to elucidate some aspects of embryo formation in fishes.
From 1899 to 1906 (except for a two-year leave of absence) Sumner taught undergraduate biology at the College of the City of New York. He found this position stifling to his research interests and welcomed the opportunity to continue his zoological investigations in the summer, beginning in 1903, as director of the laboratory of the United States Fish Commission at Woods Hole, Massachussets, close to the Marine Biological Laboratory.
In 1906 he quit teaching to devote full time to this work; aided by associates, he conducted an extensive survey of marine life and its environment.
He next became naturalist (1911 - 13) on the Bureau of Fisheries' pioneering marine research ship, Albatross, and surveyed in detail the physical and biological parameters of San Francisco Bay. That survey brought Sumner to the attention of William Emerson Ritter, who was then developing at La Jolla, California, the Scripps Institution for Biological Research.
Recognizing Sumner's competence both as field naturalist and as experimental biologist, Ritter in 1913 offered him a position as assistant professor in that institution, where he spent the remainder of his career, advancing to professor of biology in 1926. At La Jolla, Sumner turned his attention to a study of speciation in field mice of the genus Peromyscus, particularly the relation between coat color and differing physical environments.
When the Scripps Institution for Biological Research was transformed in 1925 into the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Sumner returned to the biology of fishes. It was his habit to concentrate on one research problem at a time in order to penetrate deeply into its fundamental aspects.
Sumner died in La Jolla at the age of seventy-one of an enlarged heart condition.
Achievements
Francis Bertody Sumner was well-kinown for his service as the vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he also headed the American Society of Zoologists. Besides, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1937) and the American Philosophical Society. In La Jolla Sumner was a leading member of a "town and gown" discussion group.
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He has been largely credited with determining the mechanisms of protective coloration in flatfish; the ability of other fish species to become acclimatized to changes in salt concentration or in water temperature; and - his last major work - the quantitative biochemical changes that take place in the white and black pigments of fish in response to varying degrees of lightness or darkness in their backgrounds.
Sumner's researches were acclaimed for originality, precision, and significance, and brought him wide recognition.
Sumner's interests extended far beyond the laboratory. He was deeply concerned with the problems of human society, although not optimistic regarding the chance of effecting solutions. He supported the work of the American Civil Liberties Union, participated in groups seeking to preserve wildlife and scenic beauty, and was a vigorous proponent of birth control as a means of halting overpopulation.
Membership
He was a member of of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he was also a member of the American Society of Zoologists.
Personality
He was a strong individualist and a man of complete intellectual integrity.
Connections
He had a wife, Margaret Elizabeth Clark of Salisbury, Connecticut, whom he had married on September 10, 1903. They had three children: Florence Anne, Elizabeth Caroline, and Herbert Clark.
