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HERMON CAREY, American scientist and ichthyologist; born at Buckfield, Me., May 5, 1862. He studied at Brown University, from which he graduated in 1884. From 1886 to 1889, he was professor of biology at Olivet College, Michigan, and in 1892 took the chair of comparative anatomy at Brown University. He was made director of the biological laboratory of the Government Fish Commission at Woods Hole, Mass., in 1898, and became director of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in 1902. From 1914 to 1919 he was president of Tufts College, Massachusetts. He wrote numerous monographs on scientific subjects.

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