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Caption: Dedication - Burrill Hall
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THOMAS JONATHAN BURRILL 1839-1916 BIOLOGIST | | p AFTER A CHILDHOOD IN RURAL MASSACHUSETTS, HE GRADUATED FROM ILLINOIS STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. WAS SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS IN URBANA, AND IN 1868 BECAME ONE OF THE UNIVERSITY'S ORIGINAL FACULTY. HIS RESEARCH FOUNDED THE SCIENCE OF BACTERIAL PLANT PATHOLOGY. HE TAUGHT THE FIRST AMERICAN COURSE IN BACTERIOLOGY. HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN BACTERIOLOGISTS AND THE AMERICAN MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. AT ILLINOIS HE SERVED AS PROFESSOR OF BOTANY AND HORTICULTURE. VICE PRESIDENT. DEAN OF COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, OEAN pP^THE GENERAL FACULTY. DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL, Mlt* ACTING PRESIDENT. gkji OF HIS PERSONAL CHARACTER IT MAY BE NOTED THAT H I S jtREAT GENTLENESS MADE HIM REMARKABLY BELOVED/"*j^COLLEAGUE ONCE TOLD HIM: "DR. BURRILL. BIOLOGICALLY SPEAKING. YOU ARE A MONSTER OF GOODNESS*. Dr. Stephen A. ForBes, who was Professor of Entomology at the University of Illinois, made the following statement about Professor Hun ill in 1916: "If he may not be called the Father of the University of Illinois, he was at least its elder brother, intimately acquainted with its aims, character, and history, the depository of its traditions, the friend, counselor, guide, and trusted confident of its successive presidents and of its trustees. . . . Long may he live in those halls and on this campus, in memory, in spirit, in cxai Die, and in the gratitud and honor of all good men."
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