James Arthur Harris (1880-1930) was a botanist and biometrician, known for the Benedict-Harris equations,
He was the Head of the Department of Botany at the University of Minnesota from 1924 to 1930. (He was both preceded and succeeded by Carl Otto Rosendahl.)
J. Arthur Harris, Botanist and Biometrician, by C. O. Rosendahl; R. A. Gortner; G. O. Burr. (See review in Ecology, 18(2) (Apr., 1937), pp. 295-298.