34 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



liAKLAX. IIOX. A. 1)., Wcnonah, N. J.: 



1. Alaska; Our Land of the Midnight Sun. (70 to 90 minutes.) 



2. Hawaii and the Hawaiians; The Great Advantage the Islands 



are to our Nation. (GO-DO niiuutes.) 



ABRAHAM D. HARLAN was burn in Chester county, Pa., September 3, 1833; 

 educated in the public and private schools of the county; spent ten years on 

 the farm; Avas a merchant for fourteen years; served in Christian Commis- 

 sion during- Uw summer of 1862 at Fortress Monroe, Harrison Landing, Wash- 

 ington and Antietam; served in an independent company of cavalry and was 

 first lieutenant of the 157th Regiment of P. V.; transcribing clerk of the 

 House of Representatives, regular and special session of 1864; message clerk 

 of the same body 186.j, 1866 and 1867; assistant clerk of the Constitutional Con- 

 vention of Pennsylvania, 1872-73; special clerk in the Internal Revenue De- 

 partment for two years; assistant cashier of customs at the Port of Phila- 

 delph?a lor six and one-half j^ears; represented Chester county in the Senate 

 for ten years and was Chairman of Agriculture for eight years; had charge 

 of the Diplomatic Gallery of the United States Senate four years; was special 

 agent of the United States Treasury for two years in Alaska. 



IIARSHBERGEK, J. W., Ph. 1).. IMiiladelpliia, Ta.: 



1. Kusts of Agricultural Plants and How to Combat Them. 



2. Accumulation of Soil Mtrogen. 



^*. The Role of Leguminous Plants in a Rotation. 



4. The Roots of Plants and What They Teach. 



5. IMosquitoes and How to Combat Them. 

 0. The Life History of a Dozen Weeds. 



7. Smuts and Related Fungi. 



8. A Historical Review of Our Know'ledge of the Potato Rot 



Fungus. 

 0. The Botany of JNIaize, or Indian Corn. 

 10. The Story of a (h-ain of Wheat. 



JOHN W. HARSHBERGER, Ph. D., was born in I'hiladelphia, January 1, 

 1869. His early education was received in the public schools, terminating in 

 his graduation from the Central Hig-h School of Philadelphia in 1888. He 

 entei'ed the University of Pennsylvania on a city scholarship, taking his 

 B. S. there in 1892 and his Ph. D. in 1893, when he was made instructor in 

 Botany, General Biology and Zoology, a position which he still holds. In 

 addition Dr. Harshl>erger has studied at Howard University and at Berlin, 

 Germany, and has traveled extensively for botanical purposes in Mexico, the 

 West Indies, California, Maine and Europe, where he carefully inspected the 

 several noted l)otanical instituti(jns. Dr. Hai s^hbergei- has been identified with 

 the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, the Pocono 

 Pines Summer School, the Department of Lectures, University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. He has been recorder of the Botanical Section of the Academy of 

 Natural Science, and is a member of the more prominent botanical societies 

 in America. His published works consist of. Maize: A Botanical and Economic 

 Study, 1893, pp. 12.5, translated later in Mexico into Spanish; The Botanists 

 of Philadelphia, and their Work, 1988, pp. 457, forty plates, and Students' 

 Herbarium for I)escri[)tive and Geographic T'urposes, 1901, pp. 210. He is 



