Footnotes for Mark A. Largent, "Zoology of the Twentieth Century"

1. For an overview of Davenport's role in the American eugenics movement, see for example Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985): pp. 41-56.

2. Oscar Riddle, "Charles Davenport," Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 25, p. 86.

3. Charles Benedict Davenport, "Zoology of the Twentieth Century," Science 24 (1901): pp. 315-324. Originally presented as the Address of the Vice-President of Section F, Zoology, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Denver Meeting, August 1901.

4. The most often cited source for biographical information on Davenport is E. Carleton MacDowell, "Charles Benedict Davenport, A Study of Conflicting Influences," Bios 17 (1946).

5. Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics, p. 48.

6. Philip J. Pauly, Biologists and the Promise of American Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000): p. 220.

7. David Starr Jordan to Gertrude Crotty Davenport, December 12, 1905, Charles Davenport Papers, American Philosopical Society. Jordan suggested that she look at his Footnotes to Evolution, in which he extracted information from Oscar McCulloch's study on the "Tribe of Ishmael." See David Starr Jordan, Footnotes to Evolution (New York: Appleton, 1898).

8. Gertrude Crotty Davenport to B. K. Bruce, February 24, 1907, Charles Davenport Papers, American Philosophical Society.