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GRADUATE DIVISION Robert Earle Bu- chanan is Dean of In- dustrial Science and also Dean of the Grad- uate Division. Dean Buchanan received his degree of Bachelor of Science from Iowa State College in 1904 and two years later the degree of Master of Science. In 1908 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was con- ferred upon him by the University of Chi- cago. Since 1908. Dean Buchanan has been professor of bacteriol- ogy at Iowa State Col- lege. He has done much work with the Iowa Agricultural Ex- periment Station along bacteriological lines. He is also interested Robert Earle Buchanan, Dean jp (fie American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science and the Iowa Academy of Science. Noteworthy among the offices Dean Buchanan has held are: Dean of Industrial Sciende at Iowa State College in 1914, Vice-President of the Society of American Bacteriologists in 1917, and President of the same Society in 1918. In September, 1919, Dean Buchanan was appointed Dean of the Graduate Division. He is the author of Veterinary Bacteriology which was published in 1911 and together with E.Stella Buchanan he published Household Bacteriology in 1917. A number of fraternities claim Dean Buchanan as a member, Acacia, Delta Thcta Sigma, Delta Upsilon, Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and Phi Kappa Phi. HISTORY Graduate students have received instruction and training at Iowa State College since its earliest history. The first degree of Master of Science was conferred in 1877 and in 1879 the first degree of Civil Engineer and Master of Philosophy. In the early days the department or departments in which the student was regis-