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Julius Nelson, Ph.D. R. JULIUS NICLSUN, Professor of Biology in Rutgers College, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, March Gth, 1858. Ile came to this country with his parents in 1863. The family settled at XVaupaca, then a town of about Hfteen hundred inhabitants, near the frontier, in the State of XViseonsin. The educational environment of the lad was however, exceptionally good. The town was the county seat, and the predominance of the 7 New England element in its population assured the presence of excellent graded schools with able teachers. Ile began attending school in his seventh year. It is interesting to note that among the earliest books studied by young Nelson was the NVilson Natural History series used as reading books in the lower grades. On the other hand, though the high school curriculum included nearly all the subjects taught in a college, Zoology and Chemistry were omitted, so that the early bent received towards Biology, Was sustained during the most important years of his educational development, almost solely by his most favorite study, Physical Geography. Ile manifested but slight interest in Botany, taught merely as tt key-workn for the identification of speciesg but he was passionately fond of Physiology. lle preferred study to playg and before entering college he had read widely in Science and Philosophy, from the libraries of his teachers and pastors. XYhen he graduated from the lligh School in 1876 he was wavering between the choice of civil engineering and of teaching, as a profession, he even took a post-graduate course in astronomy, surveying and trigonometry to fit himself for the former. In 1878 Mr. Nelson entered the scientific department of the State University at Madison, XVisconsiu, and it was here that he found such facilities for the study of biological subjects that he definitely determined to choose thc teaching of Biology as his profession. Throughout his course his financial resources were very limited, but by rigid economy he succeeded in making them adequate for his wants. He was graduated in 1881 with class honors and also special honors in Zoology. He presented a thesis on the Embryology of the Trout. I-Ie at once began working for the Master's Degree studying the Embryology of Zygonectes, a 4' Top Minnow. This work was inter- rupted by his call to the principalship of a school in 1882, and the thesis was not completed and the degree granted until 1884. Meanwhile Mr. Nelson had entered the Johns Hopkins University as a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Here he chose Zoology as the major subject and Physiology L21 9
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and Psychology as the two required minors, his instructors being respectively Drs. W. K. Brooks, H. N. Martin and G. Stanley Hall. Accessory to these he followed courses of lectures in Philosophy and Pedagogy. For two years he held the position of Laboratory Instructor in Biology, and for two addi- tional years was appointed a Fellow. He studied marine life at the summer Zoological Laboratory of the University in 1884 at Beaufort, N. C., and in 1885 in the Bahama Islands. In the latter year he published in the American Ncufnrcclist a series ot' articles on the 'iSigni1icance of Sexf' illustrated by numerous figures of the structure ofthe cell nucleus. These were accepted as a thesis and a degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred in June, 1888. At this time appeared his Study of Dreams in the American Journal of Psychology, and also in the same journal several reviews, among which may be mentioned a serial review of over sixty, representative and recent, German, French, and English works on Heredity and Sex. In the summer of 1888 Dr. Nelson accepted the appointment to the chair of Biology in Rutgers College and the position of Biologist and Investigator of Food Products in the College Experiment Station. He now married at Madison, Nllisconsin, an alumna of his Alma Mater, Professor Nelson believes firmly in the superiority of co-education over the education of the sexes in separate schools. As investigator in the Experiment Station Dr. Nelson busied himself at first with studies of oyster culture and later with dairy problems, such as those pertaining to tuberculosis, and the germ in milk. Aside from his Bulletins and Annual Reports he has issued a descriptive catalogue of the Vertebrates of New Jersey, based on Dr. C. C. Abbottis catalogue of 18685 also a very comprehensive Syllabus of Zoology for the Extension Course. He has frequently read papers before the New Jersey State Microscopical Society and the Phi Beta Kappa, of which societies he is an active member. For the past ten years he has contributed condensed articles on several thousand titles in Zoology to a Cyclopedia of Sciences now nearly completed. He has also in preparation a text-book on Biology. 10
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