DAVENPORT, CHARLES BENEDICT ), American zoologist, was born at Stamford, Conn., on June 1, 1866. He graduated in 1886 at Brooklyn Polytechnic institute and, in 1889, at Harvard, from which in 1892 he received the degree of doctor of philosophy. After serving as assistant and instructor in zoology at Harvard in 1888-99, he was assistant and associate professor of zoology and embryology in the Uni versity of Chicago from 1899 to 1904 when he was made director of the station (at Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., N.Y.) for experi mental evolution of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in which he became director of the eugenics record office in 1910 and of the department of genetics in 1918. He made valuable investigations in the breeding of animals, and in the heredity of eye, hair, and skin color, and of temperament, stature, and build in man. Among his published works are Experimental Morphology , Statistical Methods in Biological Varia tions (2nd ed. 1904), Inheritance in Poultry (1906), Eugenics (Iwo), Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (i9ii ), Heredity of Skin Color inNegro-White Crosses (1913), The Feebly-Inhibited Nomadism and Temperament Defects Found in Drafted Men (1920), Body Build and Its Inheritance (1923) and numer ous contributions to biological journals.