46 Kansas Academy of Science. 



WILLIAM ASHBROOK KELLERMAN. 



By J. T. WiLLARD, Manhattan. 



WILLIAM ASHBROOK KELLERMAN was born at Ash- 

 ville, Ohio, May 1, 1850. He was graduated from Cornell 

 University in 1874. In July, 187(3, he was married to Stella V. 

 Dennis, who, because of her bright mind and thorough interest in 

 science, was companion and genuine helpmeet throughout the re- 

 mainder of his life. He taught five years in the State Normal 

 School, at Oshkosh, Wis., then spent two years studying in Europe, 

 and received the degree of doctor of philosophy from the Polytech- 

 nic Institute at Zurich. Upon his return to the United States he 

 was elected professor of botany in the State College of Kentucky, 

 but later accepted a similar position in the Kansas State Agricul- 

 tural College, where he remained seven years. In 1891 he became 

 professor of botany in the Ohio State University, a position which 

 he filled the remainder of his life. 



Doctor Kellerman was elected to membership in the Academy 

 of Science soon after he entered the state, and, being in the very 

 prime of life, was most active in his scientific labors. In fact, 

 throughout his life he was an indefatigable worker and voluminous 

 writer. A list of his publications appears in the Journal of My- 

 cology for April, 1908, and fills nearly eleven pages. During his 

 residence in Kansas he made several contributions to the Transac- 

 tions of the Academy of Science, but these were but a small frac- 

 tion, much appearing in the bulletins of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, publications'of the State Board of Agriculture, and vari- 

 ous scientific journals. With Mrs. Kellerman he prepared an arti- 

 ficial key, "The Kansas Forest Trees Identified by Leaves and 

 Fruit." The same authors also published "Analytical Flora of 

 Kansas." In 1889 he published in the Academy Proceedings an 

 "Artificial Key to the Kansas Grasses." Professor Kellerman's 

 work at the Agricultural College was largely upon smuts and other 

 fungi affecting farm crops. The results of these investigations 

 were published in bulletins Nos. 5, 8, 12, 15, 21. 22 and 23. He 

 also dir-ected investigations on the results of crossing corn, which 

 were published in bulletins Nos. 17 and 27. His work was not 

 limited to what might be called purely scientific investigations, but 

 included elaborate experiments touching the prevention of smut in 

 oats and other cereals by cheradcal and other treatment. After his 



