Biography 



Howard B. Cross was born in Conway Springs, Kansas, 

 July 31, 1889. He graduated from the public schools of Okla- 

 homa in 1905 and after completing three years of hi^h school 

 work taught for two years in a rural school. Then graduating 

 from the Oklahoma Preparatory School, he entered the University 

 of Oklahoma in the fall of 1911. The following year he was ap- 

 pointed Student Assistant in the Department of Zoology, and in 

 September 1913 was selected as Acting-Head of the Department of 

 Biology in the Southwestern State Normal School. After a year 

 at this institution, Mr. Cross returned to the University of 

 Oklahoma as a student and Assistant in Botany, and graduated in 

 1915. He then studied at the Marine Biological Laboratory 

 tliroughout the summer of 1915, and in the fall returned to the 

 University of Oklahoma to accept the position of Instructor in 

 Zoology. He continued in this position until 1917. The summer 

 of 1916 Llr. Cross spent in the University of Chicago and in 1917 

 he returned to that University as a graduate student and Fellow 

 in the Department of Zoology. After serving in the Army Neuro- 

 surgical Laboratory, Baltimore, during 1918, I.'r. Cross was ap- 

 pointed Assistant in the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology 

 Johns Hopkins University. He enrolled in the graduate school of 

 this University in 1920 and completed the work necessary for his 

 den-ree under Professor iiacCallum. 



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