VITA 



Louis Jerome Pessin was^in Kremenchug, Russia, on 

 May 19th, 1894, He carae to the United States in November 1908, 

 He received his early schooling in the Russian Gymnasiura and 

 completed his high school education in the city of Nev/ York, 

 He entered the University of Georgia in 1912 and graduated 

 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 191S,In the fall of 

 the same year he "became Rufus J, Lackland Fellow in the Shaw 

 School of Botany of Washington University at the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, There he majored for one year in Plant 

 Physiology and Plant Pathology, In the fall of 1917 he entered 

 the Johns Hopkins University majoring in Botany with a first 

 subordinate in Plant Physiology and a second subordinate in 

 Zoology, During 1913-19 he served in the Medical Detachment of 

 the 146th Infantry in France and Belgium, He returned to the 

 Johns Hopkins University in April 1919 and in the summer of the 

 same year he studied the flora , especially the epiphytic flora, 

 of the Blue Mountains in Jamaica, B,V/, I, He v/as student-assista.nt 

 in Botany at the Johns Hopkins University during 1917-18 and 

 1919-20, He was instructor and later Assistant Professor of 

 Botany at the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College 

 from 1920-/to 1922, He returned to the Johns Hopkins University 

 in the fall of 1922, As a result of his studies in Jamaica he 

 published a paper entitled "Epiphyllous plants of certain 

 regions in Jamaica" in the Bull, Tot. Bo t, Club 49_: 1-14, 1922. 



