University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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Stephen Hlfteb tforbes, pb.2 . Dean of the college of science, professor of zoology and entomology, was born May 29, 1844, in Stephenson County, Illinois. He obtained his early education in the country schools and Beloit Academy; enlisted as a private at seventeen, receiving a captaincy at twenty; read medicine and attended lectures at Rush Medical College in 1867; taught himself botany while teaching in the public schools, and was appointed curator of the museum of the Illinois State Natural History Society, at Normal, in 1872; became pro- fessor of zoology in the Illinois State Normal University in 1874; founded the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History in 1878, and became its director, which position he still holds. He has been state entomologist of Illinois since 1882, professor of zoology at the University of Illinois since 1SS4, and dean of the college of science since 1888. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, charter member of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, active member of the American Ornithological Union, of the Washington Entomological Society, of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, and several other societies; was director of the aquarium of the United States fish commission at the Columbian Exposition. He has conducted a natural history survey of Illinois since 1878, and numerous zoological expeditions. He has published seven reports as state entomologist of Illinois, and about two hundred other contributions to zoological science. S)avtb 1Rinle£ t fl b,2)„ V A Dean of the college of literature and arts, professor of political economy and social science, secretary of the board of administration, was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1861, and came to this country in 1873. He prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and graduated from Yale in 1SS4 receiving the degrees of A.B., and Ph.D. in 1893 from the University of Wisconsin. He was principal of the North Andover high school for six years. After a year ' s work at Johns Hopkins he was elected instructor in history and political economy in that institution, and instructor in political economy and logic in the Woman ' s College at Baltimore. In 1S92 he went to the University of Wisconsin as fellow and instructor in the school of economics. He has written articles upon the Ethical Basis of Labor Legislation, Immigration, Rela- tion of the Church to Social Reform, Influence of the Independent Treasury on Busi- ness; is author of The Independent Treasury System of the United States. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and several others. For rarely do we meet in one combined A beauteous body and a virtuous mind — Mary E. Ci ark. 15