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VITA. 



I was Ijorn near Carthage, Rush County, Indiana, July 

 15, 1676, and am the son of Josiah and Margaret F. Binford. 

 My family moved to western Kansas in 1885. I graduated from 

 the Haviland Academy In 1896. Then I taught a district 

 school one year, studied at warlham College, Richmond, Ind. 

 two years, and again taught a district school at Haviland, 

 Kansas for one year and the next year returned to Sarlham 

 College where I received the B.3. degree in 1901. Since 

 1901 I have held the position of Professor of Biology at 

 Guilford College, U.C. During the summer quarters of 19u2 

 and 1903, and for five quarters in 1905- '06 I studied in the 

 University of Chicago, devoting my attention principally to 

 the subject of botany, and received the degree of S.M. from 

 that institution. 



During the academic year of 1907- '08 I devoted my time 

 to zoological studies at Johns Hopkins University. I was 

 scientific assistant at the U.S. Marine Biological Labora- 

 tory at Beaufort, H.G. during the four summers; 1908, '09, '10 

 and '11. At this laboratory I worked on the life histories 

 of several crabs, though primarily investigating that of 

 Menippe raercenaria. 



In the fall of 1910 I returned to the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity where the past two years have been spent in working 

 up the foregoing dissertation and in other zoological studies. 



Raymond Binford. 

 Baltimore, Md. May 1, 1912. 



