Background
Tower, Ralph Winfred was born on May 24, 1870 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Emory and Ella Sophia (Shepardson) Tower.
Tower, Ralph Winfred was born on May 24, 1870 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Emory and Ella Sophia (Shepardson) Tower.
Student Colby U., 1888-1890. Brown U., 1890-1893, and 1894-1895, Bachelor of Arts, 1892, A.M., 1893, Doctor of Philosophy, 1903. Student of University of Leipzig, 1893-1894, medical department Harvard University (John Ware Memorial Fellowship), 1900-1901.
Demonstrator of anatomy, 1894-1895, instructor chemical physiology, 1895-1898, assistant professor, 1898-1901, associate professor, 1901-1903, Brown U. Curator of physiology, 1903-1912. Curator anatomy and physiology, 1912-1921, curator comparative physiology, since 1921, American Museum Natural History, Librarian, since 1904. recording secretary and editor, since 1917, New York Academy of Sciences. Also librarian New York Micros.
Society and Linnæan Society of New York. Assistant Biological Laboratory, United States Fish Commission, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1898-1903. Expert special agent United States Census of Fisheries.
1908. President trustees Rochelle Public Library.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences. Member Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural.
Married Bessie Belle West, 1893.