Clifton F. Hodge

Clifton Fremont Hodge (16 October 1859 – 1949) was an American professor of physiology who worked at Clark University.

[1] He graduated with a BA from Ripon College in 1882, and worked as a civil engineer in Montana and Wyoming before joining Johns Hopkins University in 1886.

In 1896, he commented that "after conscientiously reading their literature for the past five years I feel warranted in saying that science has little to fear from the efforts of the antivivisection societies.

"[10] His textbook Civic Biology (1919) coauthored with Jean Dawson (who was later his wife) was among the last pro-evolution texts to be published prior to the 1920s anti-Darwinian movement.

[11][12] He became a professor of extension at the University of Florida around 1919, taking an interest in applied biology, including local problems relating to flies[13] and mosquitoes.

[17][18][19] Hodge was also interested in animal[20] as well as human behavior[21][22] and introduced the idea of the ball and field test which was developed by his student Lewis M. Terman more formally and used in psychology studies.