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Bradley. Two of his great uncles were graduated at Yale: Lyman 
Hotchkiss Atwater, ’31, D.D. Princeton ’51, LL.D. ’73, and Wyllys 
Atwater, ’43, and several cousins, among them Hon. William Henry 
Bishop, 67, former United States consul and author, and Lyman Hotch- 
kiss Bagg, ’60, author of “Four Years’ at Yale.” He has one sister: 
Lottie G. Bishop, B.A. Mount Holyoke ’06. 
He was prepared at the Boardman Manual Training High School, New 
Haven, and received the degree of Ph.B. from the Sheffield Scientific 
School at Yale in 1909. He received general two-year honors in Senior 
year, divided the Belknap Prize in biological studies, was elected to 
Sigma Xi, and a member of Alpha Sigma Phi. 
He is unmarried. 
During Junior year in the Yale Forest School Bishop con- 
ducted a course in forestry, consisting of lectures and field 
work, at Rhode Island State Agricultural College. He entered 
the Government Service in July, 1910, receiving an appointment 
as forest assistant on the Apaché National Forest. In Septem- 
ber he obtained a furlough and returned to the School to com- 
plete his course. In July, 1911, he resumed his work with an 
assignment to the Carson National Forest, New Mexico, and 
in the winter of that year was transferred to the Ozark and later 
to the Arkansas, both in Arkansas. He spent three months at 
home on sick leave in the spring of 1912, returning in June to 
the Carson. The winter of 1912-13 was spent at Albuquerque 
on inside work. In February he accepted an appointment under 
the Philippine Bureau of Forestry and reached Manila on April 
10. His title is that of forester and he has been engaged in 
cataloguing several thousand volumes and has taken a number 
of trips with groups of students from the University. 
He is a member of the Episcopal church. 
Elwood P. Bushnell 
Business address, United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
Home address, Bronson, Mich. 
Elwood Perry Bushnell was born January 27, 1885, in Bronson, Mich., 
the son of William B. Bushnell, who has held the position of representa- 
tive in the Michigan legislature and various township and ‘county offices, 
and Sarah Maria (Taggart) Bushnell. He has three brothers: Leland 
D. Bushnell, B.S. Michigan Agricultural College, Clyde E. Bushnell and 
Clesson T. Bushnell. 

