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Edward Laurens Mark Edward Laurens Mark (May 30, 1847-December 16, 1946) was the American zoologist who received the first PhD in the subject; in Leipzig 1876; having done undergraduate work at the University of Michigan. Hired by Harvard 1877, he taught two generations of scientists and President Theodore Roosevelt before retiring to direct the Bermuda Biological Station for Research (BBSR) in Ferry Reach, St. George's, Bermuda. He brought German methods, taught, & contributed to biology, zoology, embryology, marine biology, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, ...

BIOGRAPHY

Mark was born in Hamlet, Chautauqua County, New York in 1847. He graduated from the University of Michigan 1871, instructed there in mathematics for a year, and worked as astronomer on the US Northwest Boundary Survey for a year. In 1873 he went to Germany to study with Leuckart, receiving the degree of PhD from the University of Leipzig in 1876, and also marine biological station Trieste.

Rudolf F. Wagner (1805-1864)anatomist physiologist Rudolf Leuckart (1822-1898) marine invertebrates, parasites, under Wagner @ Gottingen, Leipzig 1869

1881 embryology of the common garden slug Limax campestris, introducing the German method of bibliographical citation for scientific papers.

Hersey Professor of Anatomy Director of the Zoological Museum at Harvard Honorary LLD U Michigan 1896, U Wisconsin 1904

Edward Laurens Mark was educated at the universities of Michigan, A.B., 1871, LL.D., 1897, Wisconsin, LL.D., 1904, and at Leipzig, Ph.D., 1876, and Jena, Germany. In 1885 he became Hersey professor of anatomy at Harvard ; director of the zoological laboratory, 1900 ; director of the Bermuda biological station for research work, 1903. He is a member of many scientific and learned societies in this country and abroad, and has made translations of German text-books, also written and edited many scientific treatises. He was U. S. delegate to the Fourth International Zoological Congress in Cambridge, England, 1896.

1877 instructor, 1883 Assistant Professor, 1885 Professor of Anatomy 1885-1921 1900 Director Zoological Laboratory 1902 Director, Bermuda Biological Station 1902-1931

Anatomist, histologist, advocated lab and experimental, cytology Frequient power struggles with Alexander Agasiz Parenthetical Referencing

Alexander Winchell (1824-1891) 1854 physics, civil engineering, geology, paleontology-1872, then 1878-1891

1871 Woods Hole S.F. Baird 1888 Woods Hole Alphaeus Hyatt

1898 US delegate to 4th Intl Zool Conf Cambridge Society Biological Chemistry of London American Academy Arts Sciences Boston Society Natural History American Philosophical Society

translated Oscar Hertwig (1849-1922) Text-Book of Embryology of Vertebrates (1886) Embryology Invertebrates

1875 Trieste Biological Station University of Graz E. Graeffe 1875-1898, 1st Schulze & Claus, then just Claus till 1896 Franz Eilhard Schulze (1840-1921) U Graz (1873), U Berlin (1884) & Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus (1835-1899) of Marburg, Giessen, Wurzburg, Gottingen (1870), & Vienna (1873). Arbeiten Universitat Wien & zoologische Station Trieste österreichische Station für Meereszoologie in Triest. Lucille B. Ritvo: Carl Claus as Freud's Professor of the New Darwinian Biology. In: The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 53 (1972), pp. 277–283 eel

Died Dec. 16, 1946 Cambridge Middlesex County Massachusetts, USA

Married Nov. 26, 1873, in Dunkirk, N. Y., Lucy Thorp King, b. Feb. 6, 1848, in Sheridan, N. Y., daughter of Edwin and Eunice (Brigham) King of Dunkirk. She died 1923 Charles Leroy Mark (1822 - 1904) Julia M Pierce Mark (____ - 1917) Spouse: Lucy King Mark (1848 - 1923) Chestnut Grove Cemetery Ashtabula Ashtabula County Ohio, USA

Children: i. Kenneth Lamartine, b. Aug. 24, 1874, in Leipzig, Germany

ii. Frederica, b. June 6, 1880, in Cambridge, Mass.

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1881 Mark, E.L. Maturation, Fecundation and Segmentation of Limax campestris, Binney. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 1881;6 (part 2, no. 12):173-625 Studies on Lepidosteus Selections from Embryological Monographs 1903 Mark Anniversary Volume 1877-1903 1916 "Abbe -Abbey Genealogy In Memory of John Abbe and his Descendants" by Cleveland Abbe and Joseph Genung Nichols The Harvard System: a Mystery Dispelled Eli Chernin BMJ 297 1988 The Bermuda Islands and the Bermuda Island Biological Station 1 Popular Science Monthly March 1905 Vol. 66 The Bermuda Islands and the Bermuda Island Biological Station 2 Popular Science Monthly April 1905 Vol. 66 Reading the Shape of Nature: Comparative Zoology @ the Agassiz Museum (U Chicago 1991) Mary P. Winsor The Anatomical Record Vol 102, Issue 3, November 1948, pgs. 273-277 Theodore Roosevelt Text-Book of the Embryology of Man & Mammals Oscar Hertwig The Maturation of the Egg of the Mouse