Dr. C. B. Davenport

Abstract

DR. C. B. DAVENPORT, who died on February 18 at the age of seventy-seven, was one of the pioneers of genetics in the United States. He was born at Stamford, Connecticut, in 1866, and graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic at the age of twenty. From then until 1899 he was associated, in various capacities, with the Zoology School at Harvard. In 1899 he moved to Chicago, only to return east in 1904 on his appointment as director of the Carnegie Institution Station at Cold Spring Harbor. It is in connexion with this Station that Davenport will be mainly remembered, for he remained there some thirty years until his retirement, and left it occupying the position of one of the leading centres of genetical research in the world.