Figure 25. — Charles B. Wilson, Professor at State Teacher's College 

 in Westfield, Mass. For many years studied parasitic 

 and free-living copepods of the Woods Hole area suid 

 other parts of the United States* About 1930. 



studies published as his doctoral thesis under the title "North 

 American Parasitic Copepods. Part 9, The Lerneopodidae. " 

 He participated in economic surveys of Lake Maxinkuckee; the 

 Mississippi River; and the Maumee, Kankakee, and Cumberland 

 Rivers. Between 1913 and 1923 he was economic investigator 

 for the Bureau of Fisheries at Fairport, Iowa, and in the summers 

 of 1924-27 and 1931 he again worked at Woods Hole. Those who 

 saw him every day in the laboratory remember him as very 

 industrious, patient, and at the same time a cheerful man. 

 During one summer he concentrated his efforts on the study of 

 fresh- water copepods of nunaerous fresh-water ponds and lakes 

 on Cape Cod, and was frequently seen rowing a small skiff 

 towing a plankton net. Playing golf was liis principal recreation, 

 and he was a familiar figure on the Woods Hole golf course. He 

 also liked bowling and watching baseball, but most of the time he 

 was seen sitting at his laboratory desk patiently dissecting and 

 mounting copepods with the aid of a binocular microscope. Among 



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