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Frank Weymouth

 Area: physiology 

Years: 1910-1948
 

MEMORIAL RESOLUTION FRANK WALTER WEYMOUTH 1884-1963

Dr. Frank W. Weymouth was born June 17, 1884, in Seattle, Washington. His death in Oakland March 19, 1963, brought to an end a career of fifty three years of teaching and research. He was conducting research at the University of California School of Optometry until shortly before his death.
Dr. Weymouth's interests as an undergraduate at Stanford were almost equally divided between English Literature and Biological Sciences. He Obtained his A.B. in Zoology at Stanford in 1909 and the following year began graduate work in Physiology. He became an Assistant in 1908, received his Ph.D. in physiology in 1911 [1923] and was appointed Instructor in Physiology the following September. After spending 1912-1913 as an Assistant at Johns Hopkins, he resumed his teaching and research at Stanford. He rose through the various ranks to professorship in 1931 and becdame head of the Department of Physiology in 1938.
Dr. Weymouth's research on the campus was in the field of Physiology of the Eye, but his enduring interest in Zoology was expressed in his Summer teaching and research at the Hopkins Marine Station and in applied work during many Summer Quarters conducting fishery research for the state, federal, and British Columbia governments. His studies of the commercial crab of California began in 1911, and his later work with this species culminated in his drafting the fishery regulations for the State Legislature that are still in effect.
An abiding interest in people and their welfare was not limited to his contacts with students; he was a champion of civil rights, an active worker with minority groups. Emeritus status and retirement were not synonymous in Frank Weymouth's view: shortly after he attained emeritus rank at Stanford, he began a new teaching and research career at the Los Angeles College of Optometry. He was a member of the faculty of that school until the rule of age again resulted in his becoming Professor Emeritus of the Log Angeles College of Optometry in 1960.
He is remembered by his few remaining colleagues, his many students and friends at Stanford and elsewhere as a particularly happy bridge between the biological-humanistic traditions of Dr. Jordan and the solid role of physiology in modern medical education. Surely nothing but devotion to his school and to people could account for fifteen years of service as Chairman of the Committee on Admissions to the School of Medicine.
Dr. Weymouth is survived by a large family with origins in two marriages. We extend our deepest sympathy to his wife, the former Mary Balsbaugh Dierup, his two daughters, Mrs. Alice Kunets and Mrs. Anne Dierup, both of Berkeley, to his son, Dr. John Weymouth of the faculty of the University of Nebraska, his stepson, Torben Dierup of Berkeley, his stepdaughter, Mrs. Mary Chernoff of Berkeley, and ten grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.
Respectfully submitted to the Academic Council,
J. M. Crismon, Chairman
R. Grant
V. Twitty

Publications:

PUPIL SIZE IN AMETROPIA, HIRSCH, MJ; WEYMOUTH, FW. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY Volume: 1 Issue: 9 Pages: 646-648 Published: 1949

THE EFFECT OF DINITROPHENOL ON THE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION OF ALBINO MICE AT GRADED LEVELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE, FUHRMAN, GJ; WEYMOUTH, FW. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY Volume: 147 Issue: 3 Pages: 527-530 Published: 1946

Analysis of the relative growth of the Pacific edible crab, Cancer magister, Weymouth, FW; Mackay, DCG. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON Volume: 1936 Pages: 257-+ Published: 1936

Weymouth, F.W. & Mackay, D. 1934 Relative growth of Pacific edible crab, Cancer magister. Proc.Soc.Exp.Biol.&Med. v.31:1137-39

Weymouth, F.W. 1932 A summary of the life history of the common shrimp (Penaeus setiferous) of the south Atlantic and Gulg coasts of the United States. Tran.Amer.Fish. Soc. 62

Weymouth, F.W. and S.H.Thomson 1930 Age and growth of the Pacific cockle (Cardium corbis, Martyn). Bull.Bur.Fish., v.46:633-641

Weymouth, F.W., H.C.McMillin, & W.H.Rish 1925 The regression of age with size, a neglected aspect of growth. Pro.Soc.Expl.Biol. & Med. v.22:339-342

Weymouth, F.W., H.C.McMillin, and H.B.Holmes 1925 Growth and age at maturity of the Pacific razor clam, Siliqua patula (Dixon). U.S.Bur.Fish.Bull v.41 pp.201-236

Visual perception and the retinal mosaic II The influence of eye-movements on the displacement threshold, Averill, HL; Weymouth, FW. JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY Volume: 5 Issue: 2 Pages: 147-176 Published: APR 1925

Visual perception and the retinal mosaic I. Retinal mean local sign - An explanation of the fineness of binocular perception of distance, Andersen, EE; Weymouth, FW. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY Volume: 64 Issue: 3 Pages: 561-594 Published: MAY 1923

Weymouth, F.W. 1923 The life-history and growth of the Pismo Clam (Tivela stultorum Mawe). State Fish. Lab. Contr 37 pp.120

Weymouth, F.W. 1923 The life-history and growth of the Pismo Clam (Tivela stultorum Mawe). Cal. Fish Game Comm. Fish Bull. no.7

Weymouth, F.W. 1923 The life-history and growth of the Pismo Clam, Tivela stultorum Mawe. Mollusca 3--2

Weymouth, F.W. 1922 Decerebration of birds. Science, 55: pp.3

Weymouth, F.W. 1921 The edible clams, mussels and scallops of California. Mollusca 3--1

Weymouth, F.W. 1920 The edible clams, mussels, and scallops of California. State Calif. Fish & Game Comm. Bull. #4 pp.1-72

Weymouth, F.W. 1918 Contributions to the life-history of the Pacific Coast edible crab (Cancer magister). no.3 Rep.Comm.Fish., British Columbia pp.Q81-Q90

Weymouth, F.W. 1917 Contributions to the life-history of the Pacific Coast edible crab. Report of the British Columbia Commissioner of Fisheries

Weymouth, F.W. 1915 The Pacific Edible Crab. Transaction Second Annual Meeting Pacific Fisheries Society, San Francisco, California, Aug.9-11

Weymouth, F.W. 1914 Life-history of Pacific Coast edible crab (Cancer magister). Re.B.C.Com. of Fisheries N123-N129

Weymouth, F.W. 1913 Relation of metathrombin to thrombin. Am.J.Physiology, 32:266-285

Weymouth, F.W. and Richardson, C.H. Jr. 1912 Habits of crustacean Emerita analoga. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 59. no.7

Weymouth, F.W. 1910 Synopsis of true crabs (Brachyura) of Monterey Bay, California. Stanford U Pub. Univ.Ser. no.4

Weymouth, F.W. 1910 Collection of fishes from Cameron, La. Proc.U.S.Nat.Mus. v.38:135-145

Weymouth, F.W., P.R.Brust, F.H.Gobar ? Ocular muscle balance at reading distance and certain related factors. Am.J.ofPhysiol.Optics, v.6 no.2, 184-205

Memorial Resolution:

Frank Walter Weymouth 1884 - 1963