degrees in science, and lectured at the University of Wisconsin, Har- 
vard University, and Johns Hopkins University before coming to St. 
Louis as Engelmann Professor of Botany and Head of the Shaw School 
of Botany at Washington University in 1885. Four years later, Trelease 
was appointed Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, a position 
he held until 1912. In 1913 he became a professor of botany and Head 
of the Botanical Department at the University of Illinois, a job he kept 
until his retirement in 1926. 
Trelease received many honors during his long career, including 
honorary degrees from the University of Wisconsin, the University of 
Missouri and Washington University. He joined the Academy in 1885 
and served as secretary from 1896 until 1903 and as president from 
1909 until 1912. 
Trelease believed strongly in the necessity of field study. He ac- 
companied many scientific expeditions and traveled widely in America 
and Europe to collect specimens and to conduct research. One of the 
most important expeditions in which he participated was the Harriman 
Alaska expedition of 1899. 
Trelease wrote prodigiously, and his writings covered a wide range 
of subjects in botany, including works on Agave, Piper, Peperonia, 
and Quercus. His bibliography numbered almost 300 titles. 1! 
Another very dynamic Academy member was Henry M. Whelpley. 
Whelpley was born in Michigan in 1861 and was graduated from the 
St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 1883 and from the Missouri Medical 
College in 1890. He taught at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, where 
he became Dean and Professor of Pharmacology, Materia Medica, and 
Physiology; he also taught at the Missouri Medical College, where he 
was Secretary of the Faculty, Professor of Physiology and Histology, 
and Director of the Biology Laboratory. 
In addition to teaching, Whelpley served as President of the 
American Pharmaceutical Association and was the treasurer of that group 
from 1908 until 1921. He was President of the American Conference 
of Pharmaceutical Faculties from 1905 to 1906 and was Secretary of 
the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association for thirty years. 
One would think that Whelpley’s considerable academic and pro- 
fessional duties would have left him ]j 
respect of amateur and professional archaeologists by writing many arti- 
cles on the subject. He was President of the Anthropological Society 
of St. Louis and Chairman of the Committee on Archaeology of the 
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