VITA 



Arthur Monrad Johnson was born at Frederickstad, Norway, January 

 19, 1878, and emigrated to the United States with his mother and younger 

 brother in 1882, having been preceded by his father in 1880. The family 

 settled near Warren, Minnesota. He attended the common schools at War- 

 ren and later graduated from the state high school at Warren in June, 1897. 



He taught in the elementary schools of Marshall County, Minnesota, 

 for three years and then entered the Universit)^ of Minnesota in 1900. He 

 graduated in June, 1904, with a Bachelor of Arts degree ; pursued graduate 

 work in botany at the Minnesota Seaside Station, Vancouver Island, in the 

 summer of 1906; and in 1919 received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 

 from the University of Minnesota. He was an assistant in botany at the 

 University of Minnesota during the summer session of 1902; assistant prin- 

 cipal and instructor in science in the high school at St. Cloud, Minnesota, 

 from 1904 to 1905, and instructor in science in the high school at Colfax, 

 Washington, from 1905 to 1909. During the summer sessions of 1908 and 

 1909 he was instructor in botany and geology in the Washington State 

 College at Pullman, Washington; from 1909 to 1910 he was deputy county 

 treasurer of Whitman County, Washington ; from 1910 to 1916, instructor 

 in biological science in the North Central High School, Spokane, Washing- 

 ton; instructor in botany, University of Washington during the summer 

 session of 1913; instructor in botany during the summer quarters, De Pauw 

 University, Greencastle, Indiana, in the summers of 1917 and 1919; from 

 1916 to 1919, teaching fellow in the University of Minnesota ; from 1919 to 

 the present, instructor in botany in that institution, and in the summer of 

 1921, he was appraiser for the Northern Pacific Railroad, Pacific Coast 

 Division. 



He has published the following: The Honey Bee and the Pollination of 

 Ambrosia, American Botanist, 1917; The Use of the Text-Book in Begin- 

 ning Classes in Botany, School Science and Mathematics, 1921 ; The Use of 

 the Weed-Patch in Teaching High School Botany, School Science and 

 Mathematics, 1923; Observations on the Carnivorous Propensities of the 

 Gray Gopher, Journal of Mammalogy, 1922 ; Cryptomorpha, a New Section 

 of the Genus Saxifraga, American Journal of Botamy, May, 1923. 



