November, 1999 
SCAMIT Newsletter 
Vol. 18, No.7 
former students. 
- Ju-shey Ho (CSULB) [prepared with help 
from Frank D. Ferrari, NMNH-SI](Originally 
printed in Monoculus: reprinted here by 
permission of the author) 
Arthur G. Humes (1916 -1999) 
Arthur Grover Humes, world-renowned 
zoologist, Professor Emeritus of Biology at 
Boston University, retired founding director of 
the Boston University Marine Program at the 
Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, 
Massachusetts, and retired founding editor of 
the Journal of Crustacean Biology died on 
Saturday, 16 October at his home in Falmouth, 
Massachusetts. 
The son of Edwin Judson and Agnes (Gillis) 
Humes, Arthur was born on 22 January 1916 in 
Seekonk, Massachusetts. His interest in the 
sea and its organisms was piqued at an early 
age by summers at Falmouth Heights, where 
his family built and maintained a home from 
1926 to the late 1930’s. He earned degrees 
from Brown University (A.B., 1937), 
Louisiana State University (M.S., 1939), and 
the University of Illinois (Ph.D., 1941). 
After holding teaching positions at the 
Universities of Buffalo and Connecticut and 
serving during World War II as a Lieutenant in 
the US Naval Reserve, he began an association 
with Boston University in 1947 that included 
his rise from assistant to full professor of 
biology. In 1970 he participated in the fruition 
of several years of labor when the Boston 
University Marine Program began in Woods 
Hole, and he commenced 11 years of service as 
its first director. He retired from active 
teaching and administration as Professor 
Emeritus of Biology in 1981. 
Arthur was a member of the editorial board of 
Crustaceana, an international journal of 
crustacean research from 1960 - 1992. In 1980 
he was selected to be the editor of the Journal 
of Crustacean Biology , the new journal of the 
Crustacean Society. More than any other 
individual, he was responsible for this 
publication becoming widely recognized as the 
preeminent international journal in its field. 
He continued to edit this journal from his lab at 
the MBL until 1999. In addition, he was the 
coeditor of Volumes 9 & 10 of Microscopic 
Anatomy of Invertebrates and an editorial 
advisor to the Journal of Natural History from 
1990 until his death. 
Arthur joined the Scientific Advisory Board of 
the Sea Education Association in 1975 and 
quickly assumed this board’s chairmanship and 
was elected to membership in the SEA 
Corporation. For the next 18 years he provided 
a focus on scientific and academic rigor that 
has been a major factor in this program’s 
academic credibility. In 1993 he resigned from 
the Corporation and the Academic Review 
Board of SEA. 
Arthur served as the Chairman of the Board of 
Trustees of Falmouth Academy from 1979 to 
1984. His steadfast leadership during the early, 
difficult years of this institution was critical to 
its success and has been recognized by his 
election to the Academy’s “Tower Club,” its 
highest level of recognition for outstanding 
service. 
For more than 60 years, he maintained an 
extremely active research program which 
focused primarily on the taxonomy, 
systematics, and biogeography of copepod 
crustaceans, particularly those associated with 
other marine organisms or hydrothermal vents 
and cold seeps. To date, he has described and 
established 18 new families, over 135 new 
genera, and over 700 new species of copepods 
in 252 separate publications. He has 
personally described more species of copepods 
than anyone else in history. At the time of his 
death, the descriptions of a number of new 
species of copepods were in press or in various 
stages of preparation. Twenty-three different 
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