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James Arthur Harris

American botanist, born September 29, 1880, Plantesville, Ohio; died April 24, 1930.

Associated eponyms:
Harris-Benedict equations
Equations for calculating the basal energy expenditure (BEE) of women and men, the energy needed by a human at its lowest level of cativity.

Biography:
James Arthur Harris was professor and head of the Department of Botany in the University of Minnesota.

Bibliography:

E. A. White, H. J. Harnly and Roger C. Smith:
James Arthur Harris (1880-1930).
Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, April 23-25, 1931, 34; 24-25.
J. A. Harris:
The importance of investigations of seedling stages.
Science, Washington DC, August 11, 1905, 22 (554): 184-186.
J. A. Harris:
The selective elimination of organs.
Science, Washington DC, October 14, 1910, 32 (824): 519-528.
J. A. Harris:
Pearl and jennings on assortative conjugation in the protozoa.
Science, Washington D.C, May 10, 1912, 35 (906): 740-741.
J. A. Harris:
On the significance of variety tests.
Science, Washington DC, September 6, 1912, 36 (923): 318-320.
J. A. Harris:
On the relationship between the bilateral asymmetry of the unilocular fruit and the weight of the seed which it produces.
Science, Washington DC, September 1912 Sep 27;36(926):414-415.
J. A. Harris:
A simple demonstration of the action of natural selection.
Science, Washington DC, November 22, 1912, 36 (934): 713-715.
J. A. Harris:
Supplementary note on the significance of variety tests.
Science, Washington DC, 1913 Mar 28;37(952):493-494.
J. A. Harris:
An illustration of the influence of substratum heterogeneity upon experimental results.
Science, Washington DC, September 5, 1913, 38 (975): 345-346.
J. A. Harris:
The data of inter-varietal and inter-specific competition in their relation to the problem of natural selection.
Science, Washington DC, September 1913, 38 (977): 402-403.
J. A. Harris, J. V. Lawrence, R. A. Gortner.
On the osmotic pressure of the juices of desert plants.
Science, Washington DC, April 30, 1915, 41 (1061): 656-658.
J. A. Harris:
Standard dairy score cards. Science, Washington DC, October 8, 1915, 42 (1084): 503-505.
J. A. Harris:
Personal Equation and Steadiness of Judgment in the Estimation of the Number of Objects in Moderately Large Samples.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washington, February 1916, 2 (2): 65-69.
J. A. Harris:
Studies on the Correlation of Morphological and Physiological Characters: The Development of the Primordial Leaves in Teratological Bean Seedlings.
Genetics, Baltimore, March 1916, 1 (2): 185-196.
J. A. Harris:
De Vriesian Mutation in the Garden Bean, Phaseolus Vulgaris.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washington, June 1916, 2 (6): 317-318.
J. A. Harris, A. F. Blakeslee, D. E. Warner, W. F. Kirkpatrick.
The Correlation between Body Pigmentation and Egg Production in the Domestic Fowl. Genetics, Baltimore, January 1917, 2 (1): 36-77.
J. A. Harris:
Further Studies on the Relationship between Bilateral Asymmetry and Fertility and Fecundity in the Unilocular Fruit.
Genetics, Baltimore, March 1917, 2 (2): 186-204.
J. A. Harris:
On the Applicability of Pearson's Biserial r to the Problem of Asymmetry and Fertility in the Unilocular Fruit.
Genetics, Baltimore, March 1917, 2 (2): 205-212.
J. A. Harris, A. F. Blakeslee, D. E. Warner.
Body Pigmentation and Egg Production in the Fowl.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washington, April 1917, 3 (4): 237-241.
J. A. Harris:
Supplementary Determinations of the Relationship between the Number of Ovules per Pod and Fertility in Phaseolus.
Genetics, Baltimore, May 1917, 2 (3): 282-290.
J. A. Harris:
Physical chemistry in the service of phytogeography.
Science, Washington DC, July 1917, 46 (1176): 25-30.
J. A. Harris, A. F. Blakeslee, W. F. Kirkpatrick.
Inter-Periodic Correlation in the Egg Production of the Domestic Fowl.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washington, Septem,ber 1917, 3 (9): 565-569.
J. A. Harris, A. F. Blakeslee, W. F. Kirkpatrick.
The Correlation between Egg Production during Various Periods of the Year in the Domestic Fowl.
Genetics, Baltimore, January 1918, 3 (1): 27-72.
J. A. Harris:
Further Illustrations of the Applicability of a Coefficient Measuring the Correlation between a Variable and the Deviation of a Dependent Variable from Its Probable Value.
Genetics, Baltimore, July 1918, 3 (4): 328-352.
J. A. Harris, F. G. Benedict.
A Biometric Study of Human Basal Metabolism.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washington, December 1918, 4 (12): 370-373.
J. A. Harris:
Charles Buckman Goring. Science, Washington DC, February 6, 1920, 51 (1310): 133-134.
J. A. Harris, R. A. Gortner, J. V. Lawrence.
On the relationship between freezing point lowering, dgr, and specific electrical conductivity, k, of plant tissue fluids.
Science, Washington DC, November 19, 1920, 52 (1351): 494-495.
J. A. Harris, E. W. Sinnott.
The Vascular Anatomy of Normal and Variant Seedlings of Phaseolus vulgaris.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washington, January 1921, 7 (1): 35-41.
J. A. Harris, W. F. Kirkpatrick, A. F. Blakeslee, D. E. Warner, L. E. Card.
The Egg Records of Limited Periods as Criteria for Predicting the Egg Production of the White Leghorn Fowl. Genetics, Baltimore, May 1921, 6 (3): 265-309.
R. A. Gortner, J. A. Harris:
Notes on the occurrence of gammerus limnaeus smith in a saline habitat.
Science, Washington DC, May 13, 1921, 53 (1376): 460-462.
J. A. Harris, W. F. Kirkpatrick, A. F. Blakeslee.
The Prediction of Annual Egg Production from the Records of Limited Periods.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washington, July 1921, 7 (7): 213-219.
J. A. Harris, H. R. Lewis.
The second-year record of birds which did and which did not lay during individual months of the pullet year.
Science, Washington DC, September 9, 1921, 54 (1393): 224-226.
J. A. Harris, H. R. Lewis.
The Correlation between First- and Second-Year Egg Production in the Domestic Fowl. Genetics, Baltimore, May 1922, 7 (3): 274-318.
J. A. Harris, H. R. Lewis.
The "winter cycle" in the fowl.
Science, Washington DC, August 25, 1922, 56 (1443): 230-231.
J. A. Harris, H. D. Goodale.
The Correlation between the Egg Production of the Various Periods of the Year in the Rhode Island Red Breed of Domestic Fowl.
Genetics, Baltimore, September 1922, 7 (5): 446-465.
J. A. Harris, H. R. Lewis.
The Correlation between the Time of Beginning and the Time of Cessation of Laying in the First and Second Laying Year in the Domestic Fowl.
Genetics, Baltimore, January 1923, 8 (1): 37-74.
J. A. Harris, H. R. Lewis.
Further notes on the "winter cycle" in the domestic fowl.
Science, Washington DC, June 1, 1923, 57 (1483): 644-645.
J. A. Harris, W. F. Hoffman, A. H. Johnson:
The reaction of the cotton plant.
Science, Washington DC, January 16, 1925, 61 (1568): 65.
J. A. Harris:
The Distribution of the Magnitudes of the Intermensual Correlation Coefficient for Egg Production in the First Two Laying Years in the Domestic Fowl.
Genetics, Baltimore, March 1926, 11 (2): 89-126.
J. A. Harris, L. F. Yntema, B. S. Hopkins:
Illinium. Science, Washington DC, June 4, 1926, 63 (1640): 575-576.
J. A. Harris:
The lunell herbarium. Science, Washington DC, July 29, 1927, 66 (1700): 110.
J. A. Harris, B. Gunstad:
The Correlation between the Sex of Human Siblings. I. the Correlation in the General Population.
Genetics, Baltimore, September 1930, 15 (5): 445-461.