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including glacial drift beneath St. Louis loess, and loess deposits, 

 outlining the limits of Illinoian and Kansan glacial lobes in Mis- 

 souri, his greatest work has been that of teacher and leader in 

 nature-study and science in the College and community. He not 

 only has developed the course in science and nature-study at the 

 College, but has taught these subjects to more than twelve hundred 

 of the teachers in the St. Louis schools, who are now graduates of 

 the college and who, under his inspiring instruction, are doing 

 effective work in these lines in the St. Louis schools. In addition 

 to this he has taught hundreds of the teachers who had received 

 their appointment before the College was estabHshed. He organ- 

 ized in I QIC and has been the central figure in the St. Louis Section 

 of the Nature-Study Society of America. Through the loyal 

 support of many teachers and principals of the St. Louis schools 

 this section has become a large and active one. The present mem- 

 bership in good standing is 190 of whom many are of the original 

 100 charter members. The popularity of the section is due in a 

 considerable degree, to the Saturday field trips in the spring and 

 autimm of each year. 



Professor Drushel was bom Nov. 24, 1872. In his early years 

 he attended country parochial and district schools. He received 

 his secondary education in the preparatory department of the 

 National Normal University, at Lebanon, Ohio. He also took 

 normal and collegiate training in the same institution. Later he 

 studied at Yale, taking there the degree of A.B. with Philosophical 

 Oration rank. After graduation at Yale he taught the natural 

 sciences for two years in the East Texas Normal College, Com- 

 merce, Texas, and then returned to the Normal University at 

 Lebanon, Ohio, teaching there for four years. He has held his 

 present position since 1905. 



Professor Drushel is a member of Woodmen of the World, 

 Masonic, and Sigma Xi fraternities. Member in N.E.A., Fellow in 

 A.A.A'.S., member of St. Louis Acad, of Sci. He has collected and 

 studied plants in the field or herbarium in 39 states. His winter 

 avocation is the preparation of material studied and collected in 

 the field for illustrative purposes in botany and nature-study 

 classes. 



For several years the pubHshers of The Nature-Study Review 

 have realized gratefully the staunch support given to this periodical 

 from the St. Louis contingent. This has undoubtedly been largely 



