David Humphreys Storer

{{short description|American physician}}

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| name = David Humphreys Storer

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1804|03|26}}

| birth_place = Portland, Maine, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1891|09|10|1804|03|26}}

| death_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

| nationality = American

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| occupation = Physician

| alma_mater = Harvard Medical School, 1825
Bowdoin College, 1822{{cite journal|journal=Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences|volume=27|pages=388–391|jstor=20020490|last1=Scudder|first1=Samuel H.|title=David Humphreys Storer|year=1891}}

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| spouse = Abigail Jane Storer (nee Brewer)

| children = Horatio Storer
Francis Humphreys Storer
Abby Matilda Storer
Mary Goddard Storer
Robert Woodbury Storer

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David Humphreys Storer (March 26, 1804 – September 10, 1891) was an American physician and naturalist. He served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1855 to 1864.{{cite web|title=Past Deans of the Faculty of Medicine|url=http://hms.harvard.edu/about-hms/facts-figures/past-deans-faculty-medicine|publisher=Harvard Medical School|access-date=29 May 2014}}

He identified numerous fish species and published on the reptiles and fishes of New England. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1872.{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1872&year-max=1872&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-04-30|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}

The colubrid snake genus Storeria is named in his honor.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Storer", p. 255).

Physician and anti-abortion activist Horatio Storer (1830–1922) and chemist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and dean of the Bussey Institution at Harvard University Francis Humphreys Storer (1832–1914) are his sons.