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Charles Wesley Hargitt 1852–1927, USA |
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Source: Calder, D. 2009. Charles Wesley Hargitt (1852–1927): American educator and cnidarian biologist. Archives of natural history 36 (2): 244–261.
Charles Wesley Hargitt was born near Lawrenceburg, Indiana, USA, and died at Syracuse,
New York. After a brief career as a Methodist Episcopal minister, he carried out graduate studies in
biology at Illinois Wesleyan University and Ohio University. He served briefly on the faculty at Moores
Hill College and later at Miami University of Ohio before receiving an appointment at Syracuse
University. Hargitt spent 36 years at Syracuse, and for 21 years was a trustee of the Marine Biological
Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His research encompassed animal behaviour, cell biology,
development, ecology, natural history, and taxonomy, as well as education, eugenics, and theology, and
he wrote or contributed to more than 100 publications in science. Approximately half of these were on
Cnidaria, with 41 of them on Hydrozoa. His most important works in hydrozoan taxonomy were on
species of the Woods Hole region, the Philippines, and south China. Hargitt was author of three genera
and 48 species and subspecies ascribed to Hydrozoa, seven species of Anthozoa, and one species of
Cubozoa. Four species of hydroids are named in his honour.
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