PROFESSOR A. T. ERWIN, AMES, IOWA. 



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PROF. A. T. ERWIN, 



AMES, I A. 



The subject of this sketch has recently been appointed asso- 

 ciate professor of horticulture at the Iowa State Agricultural 

 College and Experiment Station, with Prof. S. A. Beach, late of 

 New York, as head of the department of horticulture. Prof. Erwin, 

 who is at this time thirty years of age and has had an experience 

 covering practically all of his life either in the practice or the study 

 of horticulture, is especially well fitted for the position to which 

 he is now called. The early years of his life were spent on a fruit 

 and dairy farm in central Missouri. Later he graduated in botany 

 at the Shaw School of Botany, in connection with the botanical 

 gardens at St. Louis, Mo. After his graduation he was for some 

 time under Dr. C. Whitten, at the Missouri State University, spe- 



Prof. A. T Erwin, Horticulturist, Ames, Iowa. 



cializing in horticulture. Following this, for a year he was em- 

 ployed by the landscape firm of Fred Omstead & Co. as local super- 

 intendent of the planting work being done by that firm at St. Louis. 

 In 1902 Prof. Erwin took a course in post-graduate work under 

 Prof. Craig for Master's Degree in Horticulture 'at the Iowa State 

 College, and immediately after securing the degree received ap- 

 pointment as assistant in horticulture in that institution. The year 

 following he was elected assistant professor of horticulture. Since 

 the resignation of Prof. H. C. Price, who left about a year ago to 

 become dean of agriculture at the Ohio State University, Prof. 

 Erwin has been acting head of the horticultural department at the 

 Iowa Agricultural College. 



Those of our members in attendance at the 1904 annual meet- 

 ing of our society will recall the presence of Prof. Erwin with 

 us and the thoughtful paper which he presented on that occasion, 

 to be found in the July number of that year's issue. 



