VITA 



The writer was born at Lawrenceville, Illinois, November 26, 1881. 

 He attended the public schools of Lawrenceville, and in 1899 entered 

 Vincennes University, from which he was graduated in 1903. He 

 taught for four years in the public schools of Lawrence county, Illi- 

 nois. He entered the University of Illinois in 1905, served for three 

 semesters as undergraduate assistant in General Zoology, and was 

 graduated in 1907. He then entered the Graduate School of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois and received the degree of master of arts in 1908. 

 In 1908-1909 he was for half his time assistant to the State Ento- 

 mologist of Illinois and a laboratory assistant in Vertebrate Embry- 

 ology. From 1909 to 1912 he was half-time assistant in Entomology 

 in the University of Illinois. During the summer of 1910 he studied 

 in Harvard University, and during the summer of 191 1, he was Field 

 Agent for the State Entomologist of Minnesota. He has published a 

 paper in the April number of the Biological Bulletin for 191 1, on "Ex- 

 periments on the Adoption of Lasius, Formica, and Polyergus Queens 

 by Colonies of Alien Species," and one in the Transactions of the 

 Illinois State Academy of Science for 191 1, on "A preliminary List 

 of the Ants of Illinois." 



