Repository: UIHistories Project: Illio - 1895 [PAGE 27]

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Henry Elijah Summers, Assistant Professor of Human Physiology and Vertebrate Zoology, was born in Rochester, N. Y., in 1863. Entered Cornell and graduated from the Natural History course in \S(>. During the next two years he was a fellow in t h a t institution. From '88 to '91 he was Associate Professor of Zoology in the University of Tennessee. He was engaged in zoological exploration work in the Windward Islands under the auspices of the British Association and Royal Society of Great Britain in '91 and '92. In '93-'93 he was assistant in the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, engaged on World's Fair work. He is a contributor to the Microscope, Zeitscrift fur wissenschaftliche Mikroskopie, American Monthly Microscopical Journal, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, Proceedings of the American Society of Microscopists, Entomological News, and has written keys to Heteroptera in Comstock's Introduction of Entomology.

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James McLaren White, B. S., Assistant Professorof Architecture, was born in Chicago in 1867; attended public schools of Peoria, 111. He entered the University of Illinois in '86, graduating in '90. Was retained as Assistant in Architecture for three years, when he received his present appointment.

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Edgar J.Townsend, P h . M., Assistant Professor of Mathematics, was born at Litchfield, Michigan, in 1864. He worked his way through college mainly by teaching. He was Principal and Superintendent of Public Schools of Moscow and of Reading, Michigan; was County Examiner of Hillsdale county, Michigan, for four years. In '90 he graduated from the Latin Scientific course of Albion College. T h e next year he took post graduate work in Mathematics and History of Education in the University of Michigan. Before coming here last fall, he was Professor of Mathematics in the Chicago Manual Training School.

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