Hermon Carey Bumpus

Hermon Carey Bumpus (May 5, 1862 – June 21, 1943)[1] was a biologist, museum director, and the fifth president of Tufts College (later Tufts University).

Hermon Carey Bumpus
5th President of Tufts College
In office
1915–1919
Preceded byWilliam Leslie Hooper
Succeeded byJohn Albert Cousens
Personal details
Born(1862-05-05)May 5, 1862
Buckfield, Maine
DiedJune 21, 1943(1943-06-21) (aged 81)
Pasadena, California
Alma materBrown University, Clark University

Early life and education

Hermon Carey Bumpus was born in Buckfield, Maine in 1862 and received a Ph.B. from Brown University in 1884, specializing in biology and science. He began graduate work at Brown before teaching at Olivet College. Bumpus received his Ph.D. from Clark University in 1891.

Bumpus joined the faculty of Brown as a professor of comparative zoology in 1890, where he emphasized active experimentation over the "didactic doldrums" of lectures.[2] In 1893, Bumpus worked with colleagues Charles V. Chapin and John Howard Appleton in establishing a premedical program, one of the first premedical programs in the United States, with Bumpus as the director.[2] Bumpus also established a Medical Association for physicians of Providence; in 1896 Bumpus demonstrated a Holtz machine to this group.[2]

Bumpus received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Brown University in 1905.[3] He received an honorary Doctor of Science from Tufts in 1905 and an honorary LL.D. from Clark in 1909. He directed the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries laboratory, also at Woods Hole, and the American Museum of Natural History. Subsequently, he served as business manager of the University of Wisconsin.

Career at Tufts

Bumpus became president of Tufts University in 1915, and was the first Tufts president who was not a Universalist; he had been chosen specifically because of his educational and administrative experience. He served president until 1919.

Sources
  1. Mead, A. D. (January 1944). "HERMON CAREY BUMPUS May 5, 1862-June 21, 1943". Science. 99 (2559): 28–30. doi:10.1126/science.99.2559.28. PMID 17741314.
  2. Cassedy, James H. (1962). Charles V. Chapin and the Public Health Movement. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 33–34.
  3. "Honorary Degrees: 1900s". Brown University Corporation. Brown University. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
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