Horace Fort Jayne (5 March 1859, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 9 July 1913, Wallingford, Pennsylvania)
was an American
zoölogist and educator.
Biography
He was educated at the
University of Pennsylvania
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(
A.B.
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, 1879;
M.D.
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, 1882), and studied
biology
Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...
at the universities of
Leipzig
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and
Jena
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in 1882–1883, and at
Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 – December 24, 1873) was an American merchant, investor, and philanthropist. Born on a plantation, he left his home to start a career at the age of 17, and settled in Baltimore, Maryland where he remained for most ...
for a year. In 1884 he was appointed
professor
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of vertebrate morphology at
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, and became a director of the institute. He was a professor of zoölogy at the University of Pennsylvania from 1894 to 1905, secretary of Penn's biological faculty (1884–1889), and
dean of Penn's college faculty (1889–1894). He became a trustee of
Drexel Institute
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, and served as co-editor of several scientific journals. In 1885, he was elected as a member of the
American Philosophical Society
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.
He married ethnologist
Caroline Furness Jayne (1873–1909), and they had two children. Their son,
Horace H. F. Jayne
Horace Howard Furness Jayne (Cape May, New Jersey, 9 June 1898 – 6 August 1975, Palm Beach, Florida, Palm Beach, Florida) was an American museum director and curator, art historian, and expert on Asian art who served as the director of the U ...
(1898–1975), became the first curator of Chinese art at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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, and later was director of the
, and vice director of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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.
Works
*''Abnormalities Observed in the North American Coleoptera'' (1880)
*''Revision of the Dermestidœ of North America'' (1882)
*''Mammalian Anatomy'' (1898)
He was also the author of many scientific papers.
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See also
*Horace Jayne House
Horace Jayne House (1895) is an architecturally significant building designed by architect Frank Furness in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at the southwest corner of 19th and Delancey Streets, about a block south of Rittenhouse Square ...
*Lindenshade (Wallingford, Pennsylvania)
''Lindenshade'' (Wallingford, Pennsylvania) (1873, demolished 1940), was the Wallingford, Pennsylvania, Wallingford country house and farm of Shakespearean scholar Horace Howard Furness (1833–1912) and family. The house's design is attributed ...
References
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1859 births
1913 deaths
Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)
Furness family
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
University of Pennsylvania Department of Biology faculty
Educators from Philadelphia
American zoologists
American science writers
Members of the American Philosophical Society