BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 



Lewis John Stadler, born in St. Louis, Missouri, July 6, 1896, 

 attended the University of Missouri during the years 1913-1915, and 

 the University of Florida during the year 1916-1917; and was gradu- 

 ated from the latter-named institution in 1917 with the degree of 

 Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. He pursued graduate studies 

 in field crops, botany, plant breeding, and soils at the University of 

 Missouri and for a term at Cornell University, during the years 1917- 

 1922, holding a fellowship in cereal crop improvement at the Univer- 

 sity of Missouri in the scholastic year 1917-1918, and receiving the 

 degree of Master of Arts in 1918. Since May 1920 he has been As- 

 sistant Professor of Field Crops at the University of Missouri. 



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