BIOGRAPHICAL 



Charles Francis Briscoe, after preparation in the Valparaiso 

 Xormal School and completing a course of study in Indiana Univer- 

 sity, received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in zoology in the latter 

 institution in 1899. He obtained the degree of Master of Arts, with 

 a thesis in physiological botany, from the University of Illinois in 

 1905. He taught Sciences and Mathematics in the Ohio Valley Normal 

 College 1886-1897, and was principal of the Hoopeston High School 

 1899-1903. Since 1906 he has been instructor in botany (bacteriology) 

 in the University of Illinois and assistant in bacteriology in the Illinois 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. 



He is a member of Sigma Xi, Illinois chapter; the American 

 Health League; the Anti-tuberculosis Society of Champaign County, 

 Illinois; and the Illinois State Academy of Sciences. 



I ^ublications : Tuberculosis of Farm Animals, Bulletin 149, 

 University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station 1911 (with 

 W. J. MacNeal) ; Tubercle Bacilli in the Feces of Cattle, Proceedings 

 of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 8: 80-82, 1911, 

 (with W. J. MacNeal). 



