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Francis Bertody Sumner (1874-1945), while visiting Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Sumner was a naturalist who taught in New York, served as Director of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and then served as naturalist on the R/V Albatross (ship) before joining the Scripps Institution for Biological Research in 1913. The Institution would later become Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is remembered at the Institution for his study of heredity and environmental influences in the genus of mice Peromyscus

Francis Bertody Sumner (1874-1945), while visiting Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Sumner was a naturalist who taught in New Yo...