

VITA 



a writer was &?n - 4 pril 12, 1877, on a far.r. hear Salem, 

 Ohio. is early education was received in the public schools 



of that vacirity and in the Friend's preparatory shcool at 

 Westtown, "Pennsylvar ia. After teaching at Stavy.nrer School, 

 I.egrand, Iowa, for two years he entered Iowa State College, 

 Aites, Iowa, and was graduated from that institution in 19°5, 

 receiving the degree of ^aohelor of Science. the autur.n ct 



the same year he entered the University of "^lorida, as Assist- 

 ant in botany and Horticulture.-, 



(During- the years 1906 - 1906 he was Assistant Plant 

 Pathologist in the Florida Agricultural iibcperiir.ent Station., 



^-In 1906 he received the decree of Fa'ter of Science froi 

 the University of n lorida havinc done his ma.ior work under 

 Prof. p . ". 'a3t"5 in an investigation of the -fungus parasites 

 of certain irsects parasitic on citrus trees. Entomology and 

 -eolcgy were his irir.or subjects. "e was Plant Pathologist of 

 the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station during the yeare 

 1908 - 1912^ 



Cln 1912 he was appointed Plant Patholcrist of the 

 California State Cortmission of Horticulture, Sacramento, Cali- 

 fornia, and the following year received the appointment of 

 Associate Professor of Plant Pathology ir. the Graduate School 

 of Tropical Agriculture and of the University of California, 

 located at Rive side.-) 



CTFroin Oct. 1916, to Jure, 1916, he was on leave of ab- 

 sence from the University of California, and devoted this t 



