James Arthur Harris (1880–1930) was a botanist and

biometrician Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...

, known for the

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. He was the head of the department of

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at the

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from 1924 to 1930. (He was both preceded and succeeded by

Carl Otto Rosendahl Carl Otto Rosendahl (1875–1956) was a botanist, whose areas of interest were mycology and spermatophytes. He both preceded and succeeded James Arthur Harris (1880–1930) as Head of the Department of Botany at the University of Minnesota. Arthu ...

.) In 1922 he was elected as a fellow of the

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.List of ASA Fellows
retrieved 2016-07-16.

References

''J. Arthur Harris, Botanist and Biometrician'', by C. O. Rosendahl; R. A. Gortner; G. O. Burr. (See review in ''Ecology'', 18(2) (Apr., 1937), pp. 295–298.

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