Henry Sherring Pratt

Background

Pratt, Henry Sherring was born on August 18, 1859 in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles and Catherine (Sherring) Pratt.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1882. Admitted to Ohio bar, 1885. Doctor of Philosophy, Leipzig, 1892.

University of Freiburg, Geneva, and Harvard, 1888-1893.

Innsbruck, 1902-1903. Graz, 1910-1911.

Career

Instructor biology, Haverford College, 1893-1898, associate professor 1898-1901, professor, 1901-1929, (emeritus). Instructor comparative anatomy, Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory, 1896-1926.

Achievements

• Henry Sherring Pratt has been listed as a noteworthy zoölogist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Common for Relief in Belgium, 1916-1917. President Cambridge Entomological. Club, 1896; member American Society Naturalists, American Society Zoologists (secretary and treasurer Eastern branch, 1905-1906).

Connections

Married Agnes Woodbury Gray, September 1, 1894.