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JFacult Gbomae 3onatban BurrUI, H. HD. t fl b. £ ., XX. E . Dean of the General Faculty, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., April 25, 1839. He grad- uated from the Illinois State Normal University in 1865. He then became Superintend- ent of the Urbana Schools, which position he held for three years. In 1870 he was appointed Professor of Botany and Horticulture, his present position. In 1878 he was made Botanist of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. In 1882 he was appointed Vice-President of the University; was Acting Regent of the University from 1889 to 1S94; served as Horticulturist and Botanist of the Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion since 1888. Professor Burrill early adopted his chief specialties, Cryptogamic Botany and the Parasitic Diseases of Plants He was the first among American investigators to give special attention to the latter subject. His writings have mostly been confined to reports upon his investigations. Probably his pamphlets upon Bacteria (1882), and that upon the Parasitic Fungi of Illinois (1885 to 1SS7), have attracted the most attention.
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Jfacult IRatban Clifford IRicfcer, B. S., flD. Hrcb. Professor of Architecture, and Dean of the College of Engineering, was born in Acton, York County, Maine, in 1843. He entered the University of Illinois in 1870, pur- suing an architectural course as far as practicable at that time, making up the defi- ciencies by studies in Civil Engineering. During his last two terms as student he was placed in temporary charge of the Architectural Department. Immediately after graduation in 1873 he left for Europe, spending a semester in study at the Raw Akademie in Berlin. While in the old country he visited the Vienna Exposition, Dresden, Paris, London, and numerous other cities, studying the historical buildings. He returned in [873 to take the position of Instructor in Architecture. In 1S76 he was made Professor of Architecture, and in 1878 he was appointed Dean of the College of Engineering, which position he has admirably filled. Taking charge of the Archi- tectural Department in its infancy, he has seen it grow to be one of the best, not only in the University but in the United States. He has written works on Trussed Roofs, History of Architecture, Architectural Drawing; also a translation, from the French, of Planat ' s Heating and Ventilation, and a translation, from the German, of Redtenbacher ' s Architektonik.
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