VITA 



Gardner Cheney Basset was born in Boston, Massachusetts, 

 June 17, 1873. He received his elementary and secondary edu- 

 cation in the public schools of Boston and Newton, Massachu- 

 setts. From the year 1890 to 1908 he was in the wholesale 

 shoe business, serving successively as receiving clerk, buyer, 

 traveling salesman and superintendent. He entered the Col- 

 legiate Department of Clark University in 1908; was assistant 

 in Biology during the year 1909-1910; assistant in Psychology 

 during the year 1910-1911; and in 1911 he received the degree 

 of Bachelor of Arts with highest honor. He spent the summer 

 of 1910 at Cornell University in the study of Experimental 

 Psychology. In October, 1911, he entered the Johns Hopkins 

 University, and was appointed University Fellow in that insti- 

 tution for the year 1912-1913. 



While at the Johns Hopkins University Mr. Basset studied 

 Psychology under Drs. Watson and Dunlap, Psychiatry under 

 Dr. Meyer, Genetics under Dr. Jennings, and Neurology under 

 Drs. Mall and Sabin. 



