Smith, James Perrin, 1864-1931

James Perrin Smith was a professor of paleontology at Stanford from 1892-1931.

James Perrin Smith was born near Cokesburg, South Carolina on November 27, 1864. In 1890 he went to Gittingen, Germany, to study under Professor von Koenen and Professor Liebisch where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1892. After returning to the United States he accepted an invitation from Dr. J.C. Branner to become Professor of Paleontology and Mineralogy at Leland Stanford University, California, where he remained until his death.

James Perrin Smith was professor of paleontology at Stanford University from 1892 to 1930.

James Lorrain Smith was born in 1912. He took the degree of D.Sc. at Manchester and the degrees of M.A. and M.D. at Edinburgh. He also studied at Oxford and became associated with John Scott Haldane (1860-1936) and his work on respiration and allied subjects. Smith was Professor of Pathology and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Edinburgh University. While at Edinburgh he made observations on fatty degeneration. He had also been Professor of Pathology at Queen's College, Belfast, and Professor of Pathology at Manchester University. With John Scott Haldane (1860-1936), he was involved in the publication of The absorption of oxygen by the lungs (1897). Professor James Lorrain Smith died on 18 April 1931.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

James Perrin Smith was a professor of paleontology at Stanford from 1892-1931.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

James Perrin Smith was professor of paleontology at Stanford University from 1892 to 1930.