UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT HEADS.

PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY.

CHARLES RICHARD VAN HISE, Ph. D., LL. D., President of the University, was born May 29, 1857, at Fulton, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1879, with the degree of Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering. Since that time from the University he has received the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in 1880; Master of Science in 1882; and Doctor of Philosophy in 1892. He has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Chicago, in 1903, and from Yale University in 1904. Immediately after graduating in 1879 he entered the instructional force of the University of Wisconsin and has remained on its staff in various positions to the present time. In the University he has been instructor in metallurgy, 1886-88; professor of mineralogy and petrology, 1888-90; professor of Archaen and applied geology, 1890-92; professor of geology, 1892-1903; and he was elected President of the University in 1903. At the University of Chicago he was non-resident professor of structural and metamorphic geology from its foundation to 1903. He has held various positions on the United States Geological Survey from 1883 to the present time. Under this organization he was assistant geologist on the United States Geological Survey, 1883-88; geologist in charge of Lake Superior Division, 1888-1900; and he has been geologist in charge of pre-Cambrian and metamorphic geology, 1900 to the present time. For the State Geological and Natural History Survey he was consulting geologist from 1897 to 1903. Since 1903 he has been president of the Board of Commissioners of the Survey. He was president of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, 1893-1896; and vice president of Section E of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1901. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences; the Washington Academy of Science; the Geological Society of America; the American Institute of Mining Engineers; the Scientific Society of Christiana, Norway; the Boston Society of Natural History. He has been editor (for structural geology) of the Journal of Geology since 1892. He has made many contributions to geological literature, of which the more important are: the Archaen and Algonkian, the Penokee Iron-bearing Series of Michigan and Wisconsin (with R. D. Irving), Principles of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology, the Marquette Iron-bearing District of Michigan (with W. S. Bayley), the Iron Ores of the Lake Superior region. President Van Hise has also given various addresses upon educational subjects.

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY.

JOHN BARBER PARKINSON, A. M., Vice-President of the University, professor of Constitutional and International Law, was born at Edwardsville, Madison county, Ill., April 11, 1834; graduated from the University of Wiscon sin in 1860; was an instructor in the University, 1861-62; county superintendent of La Fayette county, 1862-64; regent of the University, 1866–67; was appointed to a full professorship-the first from the alumni-in 1867; held the chair of Mathematics, 1867-72; of Civil Polity and Constitutional Law, 1872-74; was in journalism and president of the Wisconsin State Board

of Centennial Managers, 1874-76; professor of Civil Polity and Political Economy, 1876-93; was appointed professor of Constitutional and International Law in 1893, and has been vice-president of the University since 1885. He has thus been connected with the University forty years. Several of his addresses, read before the State Agr.cultural Society, the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, and other societies, have been published; courses of lectures on International Law, English and American Constitutional Law and Political Economy have been prepared, but not yet published.

EDWARD ASAHEL BIRGE, Ph. D., Sc. D., Dean of the College of Letters and Science, was born Sept. 7, 1851, at Troy, N. Y.; graduated from Williams College in 1873, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and received the degree of Master of Arts in 1876; studied zoology in the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass., until December 1875; received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1878, and of Doctor of Science (honorary) from the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1897; studied histology and phsiology in the University of Leipsic, Germany, during the college year 1880-1; elected instructor in natural history at the University of Wisconsin in 1875; professor of zoology in 1879; and in 1891 received the additional office of dean of the College of Letters and Science and served as acting president 1900-3. He is secretary of the Wisconsin Commissioners of Fisheries, superintendent of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, president of the Madison Public Library, and president of the American Microscopical Society. His papers are on scientific subjects, mainly in the Archiv für Physiologie, the Biologisches Centraliblatt, and the Transacactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.

H. L. RUSSEL, Dean of the college of Agriculture was born in Poynette, Columbia County Wisconsin, March 12, 1886. Entered University of Wisconsin 1884, graduating in 1888. Was fellow in the University in Biology from 1888 to 1890, specializing in bacteriology. Studied in Europe in Koch's Laboratory, University of Berlin, Zoological Station at Naples, The Pasteur Institute in Paris. Given the degree of Ph. D. from John Hopkins University, 1892. Continued bacteriological studies at the Woods Hall Bacteriological Station, Mass. Fellow in Bacteriology, University of Chicago, 1892-93. Called to the University of Wisconsin in 1893 as assistant professor of bacteriology and bacteriologist in the Experiment Station. This was a new line of work inauurated by Dean Henry, the first college to take up consideration of agricultural problems from the bacteriological point of view. Most of his work since coming here at the Agricultural College has been along dairy and animal disease lines, especially in connection with tuberculosis.

FREDERICK EUGENE TURNEAURE, C. E., Acting Dean of the College of Mechanics and Engineering. Born in Stephenson county, Illinois, in 1866. Received a country school education and attended the Freeport, Ill., high school for a short time. Entered Cornell University in 1885, and graduated from Civil Engineering Course in 1889. From 1889 to 1900 he was engaged in railroad engineering in Virginia and Kentucky. From 1890 to 1892 he was instructor in Civil Engineering at Washington University, St. Louis, and in 1892 was appointed to the chair of Bridge and Sanitary Engineering of the University of Wisconsin. He was also city engineer of Madison from 1900 to 1902, and has been engaged as consulting engineer on municipal work. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, of the Western Society of Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancment of Science. He has published as joint author, Modern Framed Structures, 1893, and Publle Water Supplies, 1901; besides contributions to the proceedings of various societies, and to technical journals.

HARRY SANGER RICHARDS, Dean of the College of Law. Born in Osceola, Clarke county, Iowa, November 20, 1868. Attended the public schools; graduated from the Academic Department of Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, in 1888; graduated from the College of Liberal Arts of the State University of Iowa, in 1892, with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy; graduated from the Law School of Harvard University in 1895, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws; served a clerk in the office of Horatio D. Wood during the year 1896; located for the practice of law at Ottumwa, Iowa, in 1897; was elected Professor of Law in the Law Department of the State University of Iowa in 1898; was elected Dean of the College of Law, University of Wisconsin, in June, 1903. Was granted the degree of Doctor of Laws by the State University of Iowa in June, 1904. Member of Phi Beta Kappa and legal fraternity, Phi Delta Phi. Member of the American Bar Association and of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools. Read various papers before the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools.

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