David Humphreys Storer

American physician

David Humphreys Storer

Born	(1804-03-26)March 26, 1804 Portland, Maine
Died	September 10, 1891(1891-09-10) (aged 87) Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard Medical School, 1825 Bowdoin College, 1822^[1]
Occupation	Physician
Spouse	Abigail Jane Storer (nee Brewer)
Children	Horatio Robinson Storer Francis Humphreys Storer Abby Matilda Storer Mary Goddard Storer Robert Woodbury Storer
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David Humphreys Storer (March 26, 1804 – September 10, 1891) was an American physician and naturalist. He served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1855 to 1864.^[2]

He identified numerous fish species and published on the reptiles and fishes of New England.^[1] He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1872.^[3]

The colubrid snake genus Storeria is named in his honor.^[4]

Species descriptions

Among the fish he described are:

The tessellated darter (Etheostoma olmstedi)
The yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea)
The rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum)
The northern pipefish (Syngnathus fuscus)
The kelp pipefish (Syngnathus californiensis)
The ashy darter (Etheostoma cinereum)
The northern studfish (Fundulus catenatus)
The wrymouth (Cryptacanthodes maculatus), sometimes called a ghostfish
The blackspotted topminnow, (Fundulus olivaceus)

He also described the snake: Storeria occipitomaculata, commonly known as the Redbelly Snake

Category:Taxa named by David Humphreys Storer

Selected publications

Storer, David Humphreys; Peabody, William Bourne Oliver (1839). Reports on the Fishes, Reptiles and Birds of Massachusetts. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers.
Storer DH (1846). "A Synopsis of the Fishes of North America". Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2: 253–550.
Storer DH (1853). "A History of the Fishes of Massachusetts". Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 5 (1): 122–168.
Storer DH (1859). "A History of the Fishes of Massachusetts". Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 6 (2): 309–372.

References

^ ^a ^b Scudder, Samuel H. (1891). "David Humphreys Storer". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 27: 388–391. JSTOR 20020490.
^ "Past Deans of the Faculty of Medicine". Harvard Medical School. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Storer", p. 255).

External links

Works by or about David Humphreys Storer at Internet Archive

Presidents of the American Medical Association

1847–1875

Nathaniel Chapman (1847–1848)
Alexander Hodgdon Stevens (1848–1849)
John Collins Warren (1849–1850)
Reuben D. Mussey (1850–1851)
James Moultrie (1851–1852)
Beverly R. Wellford (1852–1853)
Jonathan Knight (1853–1854)
Charles A. Pope (1854–1855)
George Bacon Wood (1855–1856)
Zina Pitcher (1856–1857)
Paul F. Eve (1857–1858)
Harvey Lindsly (1858–1859)
Henry Miller (1859–1860)
Eli Ives (1860–1861)
Alden March (1863–1864)
Nathan Smith Davis (1864–1866)
David Humphreys Storer (1866–1867)
Henry F. Askew (1867–1868)
Samuel D. Gross (1868–1869)
William O. Baldwin (1869–1870)
George Mendenhall (1870–1871)
Alfred Stillé (1871–1872)
D. W. Yandell (1872–1873)
Thomas M. Logan (1873–1874)
Joseph M. Toner (1874–1875)

1875–1900

W. K. Bowling (1875–1876)
J. Marion Sims (1876–1877)
Henry I. Bowditch (1877–1878)
T. G. Richardson (1878–1879)
Theophilus Parvin (1879–1880)
Lewis Sayre (1880–1881)
John T. Hodgen (1881–1882)
Joseph Janvier Woodward (1882–1883)
John Light Atlee (1883–1884)
Austin Flint I (1884–1885)
H. F. Campbell (1885–1886)
William Brodie (1886–1887)
E. H. Gregory (1887–1888)
A. Y. P. Garnett (1888–1889)
W. W. Dawson (1889–1890)
E. M. Moore (1890–1891)
W. T. Briggs (1891–1892)
H. O. Marcy (1892–1893)
Hunter McGuire (1893–1894)
James F. Hibberd (1894–1895)
Donald MacLean, 1885–1896)
R. Beverly Cole (1896–1897)
Nicholas Senn (1897–1898)
George Miller Sternberg (1898–1899)
J. M. Mathews (1899–1900)

1900–1925

William Williams Keen (1900–1901)
C. A. L. Reed (1901–1902)
John Allan Wyeth (1902–1903)
Frank Billings (1903–1904)
John Herr Musser (1904–1905)
L. S. McMurtry (1905–1906)
William James Mayo (1906–1907)
Joseph D. Bryant (1907–1908)
H. L. Burrell (1908–1909)
William C. Gorgas (1909–1910)
William H. Welch (1910–1911)
John Benjamin Murphy (1911–1912)
Abraham Jacobi (1912–1913)
John A. Witherspoon (1913–1914)
Victor C. Vaughan (1914–1915)
William L. Rodman (1915)
Albert Vander Veer (vice president) (1915–1916)
Rupert Blue (1916–1917)
Charles Horace Mayo (1917–1918)
Arthur D. Bevan (1918–1919)
Alexander Lambert (1919–1920)
William Clarence Braisted (1920–1921)
Hubert Work (1921–1922)
George de Schweinitz (1922–1923)
Ray Lyman Wilbur (1923–1924)
William Allen Pusey (1924–1925)

1925–1950

William D. Haggard (1925–1926)
Wendell C. Phillips (1926–1927)
Jabez N. Jackson (1927–1928)
William W. Thayer (1928–1929)
Malcolm L. Harris (1929–1930)
William Gerry Morgan (1930–1931)
E. Starr Judd (1931–1932)
Edward H. Cary (1932–1933)
Dean D. Lewis (1933–1934)
Walter L. Bierring (1934–1935)
James S. McLester (1935–1936)
James Tate Mason (1936)
Charles G. Heyd (1936–1937)
J. H. J. Upham (1937–1938)
Irvin Abell (1938–1939)
Rock Sleyster (1939–1940)
Nathan B. Van Etten (1940–1941)
Frank Lahey (1941–1942)
Fred W. Rankin (1942–1943)
James E. Paullin (1943–1944)
Herman L. Kretschmer (1944–1945)
Roger I. Lee (1945–1946)
H. H. Shoulders (1946–1947)
Edward L. Bortz (1947–1948)
Roscoe L. Sensenich (1948–1949)
Ernest E. Irons (1949–1950)

1950–1975

Elmer L. Henderson (1950–1951)
John W. Cline (1951–1952)
Louis H. Bauer (1952–1953)
Edward J. McCormick (1953–1954)
Walter B. Martin (1954–1955)
Elmer Hess (1955–1956)
Dwight H. Murray (1956–1957)
David B. Allman (1957–1958)
Gunnar Gundersen (1958–1959)
Louis M. Orr (1959–1960)
E. Vincent Askey (1960–1961)
Leonard W. Larson (1961–1962)
George M. Fister (1962–1963)
Edward R. Annis (1963–1964)
Norman A. Welch (1964)
Donovan F. Ward (vice president) (1964–1965)
James Z. Appel (1965–1966)
Charles L. Hudson (1966–1967)
Milford O. Rouse (1967–1968)
Dwight Locke Wilbur (1968–1969)
Gerald D. Dorman (1969–1970)
W. C. Bornemeier (1970–1971)
Wesley W. Hall (1971–1972)
C. A. Hoffman (1972–1972)
Russell B. Roth (1973–1974)
Malcolm C. Todd (1974–1975)

1975–2000

Max H. Parrott (1975–1976)
Richard E. Palmer (1976–1977)
John H. Budd (1977–1978)
Thomas E. Nesbitt (1978–1979)
Hoyt D. Gardner (1979–1980)
Robert B. Hunter (1980–1981)
Daniel T. Cloud, 1981–1982)
William Y. Rial (1982–1983)
Frank J. Jirka Jr. (1983–1984)
Joseph F. Boyle (1984–1985)
Harrison L. Rogers Jr. (1985–1986)
John J. Coury Jr. (1986–1987)
William S. Hotchkiss (1987–1988)
James E. Davis (1988–1989)
Alan R. Nelson (1989–1990)
C. John Tupper (1990–1991)
John J. Ring (1991–1992)
John L. Clowe (1992–1993)
Joseph T. Painter (1993–1994)
Robert E. McAfee (1994–1995)
Lonnie R. Bristow (1995–1996)
Daniel H. Johnson Jr. (1996–1997)
Percy Wootton (1997–1998)
Nancy Dickey (1998–1999)
Thomas Reardon (1999–2000)

2000–

Randolph D. Smoak Jr. (2000–2001)
Richard F. Corlin (2001–2002)
Yank D. Coble Jr. (2002–2003)
Donald J. Palmisano (2003–2004)
John C. Nelson (2004–2005)
J. Edward Hill (2005–2006)
William G. Plested III (2006–2007)
Ronald M. Davis (2007–2008)
Nancy H. Nielsen (2008–2009)
J. James Rohack (2009–2010)
Cecil B. Wilson (2010–2011)
Peter W. Carmel (2011–2012)
Jeremy A. Lazarus (2012–2013)
Ardis Dee Hoven (2013–2014)
Robert M. Wah (2014–2015)
Steven J. Stack (2015–2016)
Andrew W. Gurman (2016–2017)
David O. Barbe (2017–2018)
Barbara L. McAneny (2018–2019)
Patrice Harris (2019–2020)
Susan R. Bailey (2020–2021)
Gerald E. Harmon (2021–2022)
Jack Resneck Jr. (2022–2023)
Jesse Ehrenfeld (2023–)

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