Rutgers University - Scarlet Letter Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Senior Editors Of Scarlet Letter. 1871-1898. LWx.1x' -.x .xxwx .w 1871. GEORGE S. DURYEE. X W 1872. CHARLES H. STEELE, X Q 1873. FRED. E. ALLEN, A T 1874. JOHN W. SEARING, A Q 1875. HOWARD GILLESPIE, A K E 1876. WILLIAM L. SKINKLE, Z 'If 1878. ROBERT W. PRENTISS, A 2' 1877. HERAIIXN W. VANDERPOEL, X Q 1879. E. CARAIEN SCUDDER, A Q 1880. PIERRE ST. JOHN GILLESPIE, A K E 1881. JOHN F. MCWILLIAAI, B 9 II 1882. JOHN POWELL PIIILLIP, X EF 1883. FRED. W. CUTLER, Z LF 1885. LEWIS B. CHAMBERLAIN, A 2' 1884. WILLIAM H. LUSTER, JR., X Q 1886. STEPHEN D. DEMAREST, A Q 1887. LOUIS B. HASBROUOK, A K E 1888. HARRY R. ANDERSON, X 'If 1889. JAMES FOUNTAIN, Z EF 1890. CHARLES W. HULST, X Q 1892. FRANK MALVEN, A Q 1891. JAMES W. THOMPSON, A T' 1893. EDGAR I. MCCULLY, A K E 1894. HERMAN C. WEBER, B 9 II 1895. GARRET VAN CLEVE, X FF 1896. C. WILLARD VOORHEES, Z LU 1897. WILLARD P. CLARK, X Q 1898. AUGUSTUS H. SHEARER, A 27 11

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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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I The Editors. AUGUSTUS HUNT SHEARER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. WILLIAM FRANKLIN PLUMLEY, BUSINESS MANAGER. JOHN WYCKOFF METTLER, ISAAC EDWARD TITSWORTH, FRANK HARRIS WHITENACK, CLAUDE EDWARD SCATTERGOOD WILLIAM' REESE HART. 12