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Thomas Jonathan Burrill, A.M., Ph.D., L.L.D. Thomas Jonathan Burrill, Professor of Botany and Horticulture and Dean of the General Faculty, was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, April 25, 1839. He graduated from the Illinois State Normal University, in 1865. He at once became Superintendent of the Urbana Schools, which position he held for three years. In April, 1868, he became an instructor in the Illinois Industrial University, then just founded. Two years later he was appointed Professor of Botany and Horticulture, the position which he holds at present. He became Botanist of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, in 1878. In 1882 he was chosen Vice- President of the University, a position which he filled until 1892. He was Acting Regent of the University from 1889 to 1894, and served as Horticulturist and Botanist of the Agricul- tural Experiment Station. Professor Burrill early adopted his chief specialties, Cryptogamic Botany and the Parasitic diseases of plants. He was the first among American investigators to give particular attention to the latter subject, and it is probably true that his students were the first in America to have regular laboratory work with compound microscopes and equipments for the study of minute plants and plant tissues. His writings have, for the most part, been confined to reports upon his investigations. Probably his pamphlets upon Bacteria (1882), and that upon the ' ' Parasitic Fungi of Illinois (1885 to 1887) have attracted the most attention. Samuel Walker Shattuck, C.E. Samuel Walker Shattuck, Professor of Mathematics, was born in Groton, Massachusetts, in 1841. He graduated from the Norwich University in i860 and was appointed tutor in Mathematics and Military Science, which position he held for three years, with the exception of four months in the Spring and Summer of 1861, when he was on the staff of the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteers. In the Summer of 1863 he returned to the army, as Adjutant of the Eighth Vermont Veteran Volunteers, and served until the end of the war. He was pro- moted in 1864, and held different staff positions as Assistant Adjutant General and Assistant Inspector General until the end of the war. In the Fall of 1865 he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Mathematics in Norwich University and in the following year became Vice- President. In 1868 he came to the University of Illinois as Assistant Professor of Mathematics and several years later he was made a full professor. He has been at the head of the Mathematics department since his appointment in 1868. He was Acting Regent during Dr. Gregory ' s six months absence in Europe in 1873. In the Fall of the same year he was elected, by the faculty, Vice-President of the University and held this position for three years. He has been Business Manager of the University since 1873.
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Nathan Clifford Ricker, B.S., M. Arch. Nathan Clifford Ricker, 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 pursuing an architectural course as far as practicable at that time, making up the deficiencies by studies in Civil Engineering. He was employed as foreman of the Architec- tural shops during 1871, and, during his last two terms as student, he was placed in tem- porary charge of the Architectural department. In March, 1873, he graduated from the University of Illinois and immediately left tor Europe, spending a semester in study at the Baw Akademie in Berlin. While in the old country he visited the Vienna Exposition, Dres- den, Paris, London, and numerous other cities, studying the historical buildings. He returned, in 1873, to fill the position of Instructor in Architecture; in 1876 he became Profeisor of Architecture, and in 1878 he was made Dean of the College of Engineering. He has written works on Trussed Roofs, The History of Architecture, and Architectural Construction; also a translation, from the French, of Planat ' s Heating and Ventilation, and a translation, from the German, of Redtenbacher ' s Architektonik. Stephen Alfred Forbes, Ph.D. Stephen Alfred Forbes, Dean of the College of Science, and Professor of Zoology and Entomology, was born in Stephenson County, Illinois, in 1844. He obtained his early education in the country schools and at Beloit Academy; enlisted as a private at seventeen, receiving a captaincy at twenty. He read medicine and attended lectures at the Rush Medical College in 1867. He 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. Two years later he became Professor of Zoology in the Illinois State Normal University. He founded the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History in 1878 and was made 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 1884, and Dean of the College of Science since 1888. He is a member of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, an active member of the American Ornithological Union, of the Washington Entomological Society, of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, and of several other societies. He was Director of the Aquarium of the United States Fish Commission at the Columbian Exposition and also the Organizer of an International Congress of Zoologists at Chicago, in 1893. He has conducted a Natural History Survey of Illinois since 1878, and numerous Zoological expeditions. Hs has published seven reports as State Entomologist of Illinois, and about two hundred other contributions to Zoological science.
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