BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 



Harry Warren Anderson was born at Ladoga, Indiana, on Octo- 

 ber, 14, 1885. After graduating from the local high school he entered 

 Wabash College,, receiving the degree of bachelor of arts in 1907. The 

 following year was spent as Teaching Fellow in Biology at Vanderbilt 

 University. In the fall of 1908 he returned to Wabash College as 

 Instructor in Botany and, after two years of graduate study in that 

 institution, received the degree of master of arts. The academic year 

 of 1910-11 was spent as Research Fellow in the Shaw Graduate School 

 of Botany. At the end of that year he was e'ected to Sigma Xi in 

 Washington University. In 1911 he was appointed Assistant in Flori- 

 cultural Pathology in the Agricultural Experiment Station of the 

 University of Illinois. The following March he accepted the position 

 of Professor of Botany in Wabash College. A leave of absence for 

 the year 1916-17 was granted in order to allow him to complete the 

 necessary graduate work for his doctorate in the University of Illinois. 

 During this period he acted as Assistant in Botany in this University. 



