George Howard Parker (December 23, 1864 – March 26, 1955)[1] was an American zoologist. He was a professor at Harvard, and investigated the anatomy and physiology of sense organs and animal reactions.
Biography
George Howard Parker was born in Philadelphia on 23 Dec 1864.[2] He graduated from Harvard in 1887 with his undergraduate degree, later pursuing special courses there and at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Freiburg. He became assistant instructor in zoology at Harvard in 1888 and occupied different positions there, earning his Ph.D. in 1891 and becoming professor of zoology in 1906.[3]
G.H. Parker. 1904. Olfactory reactions of Fishes. Journal of Experimental Zoology 8(4):535-542.
G.H. Parker. 1908. The sensory reactions of Amphioxus. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 43(16):415-455.
W.H. Osgood, E.A. Preble, G.H. Parker, and R.M.E. MacDonald. 1915. The Fur Seals and Other Life of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, in 1914. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 172pp.
George Howard Parker. 1932. Humoral Agents in Nervous Activity: With Special Reference to Chromatophores. Cambridge University Press. 79pp.
G.H. Parker, F.A. Brown Jr. and J.M. Odiorne. 1935. The relation of the eyes to chromatophoral activities. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 69(12):439-462
References
^Coan, E. V.; Kabat, A. R.; Petit, R. E. (2010). 2,400 Years of Malacology(PDF) (7th ed.). American Malacological Society. p. 874. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2012-12-20.
