Alexander Grant Ruthven

Alexander G. Ruthven
Ruthven from 1951 Michiganensian
7th President of the
University of Michigan
In office
1929–1951
Preceded byClarence Cook Little
Succeeded byHarlan Hatcher
Personal details
Born(1882-01-01)January 1, 1882
Hull, Iowa
DiedJanuary 19, 1971(1971-01-19) (aged 89)
Alma materMorningside College, University of Michigan
Professionacademic administrator, herpetologist

Alexander Grant Ruthven (April 1, 1882 – January 19, 1971) was a herpetologist, zoologist and the President of the University of Michigan from 1929 to 1951.[1]

Biography

Ruthven from 1948 Michiganensian
Ruthven grave

Alexander Grant Ruthven was born in 1882 in Hull, Iowa. He graduated from Morningside College in 1903.[2] In 1906, he received a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Michigan.[3] He worked as a professor, director of the University Museum, and Dean.[3] He became the President in 1929.[3] As such, he promoted a corporate administrative structure.[1][3] He also approved of police raids against bootleggers at fraternities.[4] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1931.[5] He retired in 1951,[3] and died in 1971.[1] He is buried at Forest Hill Cemetery which is adjacent to the university.[6]

The work of Ruthven on the familiar garter snakes, published in 1908, may be regarded as founding an essentially new school of herpetology in the United States. This was a revision of a genus, carried out by the examination of large numbers of specimens, and evaluated largely in geographic terms. Ruthven attracted many students of reptiles to the University of Michigan, his most brilliant pupils being Frank N. Blanchard and Helen T. Gaige.[7] Ruthven described and named 16 new species of reptiles, including three with Gaige.[8]

Legacy

Ruthven is commemorated in the scientific names of seven reptiles: Geophis ruthveni, Holbrookia maculata ruthveni, Lampropeltis ruthveni, Lepidoblepharis ruthveni, Macropholidus ruthveni, Masticophis schotti ruthveni, and Pituophis ruthveni.[9]

Writings

  • Miscellaneous Papers on the Zoology of Michigan, W.H. Crawford Co., 1916
  • A Naturalist in a University Museum, 1931
  • Laboratory Directions in Principles of Animal Biology, by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1942
  • Naturalist in Two Worlds. Random Recollections of a University President, 1963
  • The Herpetology of Michigan
  • Description of a New Salamander from Iowa
  • Variations and Genetic Relationships of the Garter-Snakes
  • The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Columbia, etc. With map

References

  1. ^ a b c "Medicine at Michigan". Archived from the original on 2011-03-15. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
  2. ^ University of Michigan Bulletin:1929. University of Michigan. 1929. p. 46.
  3. ^ a b c d e The Michigan Saga
  4. ^ Time
  5. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
  6. ^ "Ann Arbor - LocalWiki".
  7. ^ Schmidt KP, Davis DD (1941). Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 365 pp. ("History of Snake Study", Alexander G. Ruthven, pp. 14-15).
  8. ^ "Ruthven". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  9. ^ 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. ("Ruthven", p. 230).

Further reading

Academic offices
Preceded by 7th President of the University of Michigan
1929–1951 		Succeeded by

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