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Aug 01, 1874 Pomfret, Connecticut, United States Died on 06 Sep 1945 (aged 71)
American oceanographer
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About Francis Bertody Sumner
- Francis Bertody Sumner (August 1, 1874 – September 6, 1945) was an American ichthyologist, zoologist and writer.Sumner was born in Pomfret, Connecticut.
- He studied at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University where in 1901 he received a PhD with a thesis on fish embryology.
- He became the Director of the U.S.
- Bureau of Fisheries Laboratory at Woods Hole.
- He worked as a Professor of Biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.Sumner collected many subspecies of Peromyscus in California.
- He also studied the pigments of fishes.
