Horace Jayne

Horace Jayne

Horace Jayne (1859-1913) was an American zologist and educator. He was born in Philadelphia, was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (A.B., 1879; M.D., 1882), and studied biology at the universities of Leipzig and Jena in 1882-83 and at Johns Hopkins for a year. In 1884 he was appointed professor of vertebrate morphology at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy, University of Pennsylvania, and from 1894 to 1905 was professor of zoölogy and director of the institution; in the university he was secretary of the biological faculty (1884-89) and dean of the college faculty (1889-94). He became a trustee of Drexel Institute and served as coeditor of several scientific journals. His writings include:
* "Abnormalities Observed in the North American Coleoptera" (1880)
* "Revision of the Dermestidœ of North America" (1882)
* "Mammalian Anatomy" (1898)


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