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Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple

educator, author, was born Sept. 2, 1856, in St. Clair, Mich. Since 1891 he has filled the chair of political science in the Cornell university of Ithaca, N. Y. He is the author of Road Legislation for the American State, and other works on politics, trust and monetary subjects. JENKS, JOHN WHIPPLE POTTER, naturalist, author, was born May 1, 1819, in West Boylston, Mass. He was a naturalist who was director of the museum of natural history at Brown university in 1.872-94, and professor of agriculture and zoölogy there, in 1875-94. He was the author of Hunting in Florida; and Jenks and Steele's Zoölogy. He died in 1894.