James Bertram Overton 



Ph.B., University of Michigan, 1894; Ph.D. (Botany and Zoology), 

 Chicago, June, 1901 



PROFESSOR OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY 

 OF WISCONSIN, MADISON, WISCONSIN 



Professor of Biology, Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, 1901-03; Research As- 

 sistant, Carnegie Institution of Washington (Bonn, Germany), 1903-04; Instructor in 

 Botany, University of Wisconsin, 1904r-07; Assistant Professor, 1907-12; Associate Pro- 

 fessor of Plant Physiology, 1912-15; Professor, 1915 — . 



Member: Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (Fellow), Amer. Soo. Nat., Assoc. Internat. Bot., Bot. 

 Soc. Amer., Botanists Cent. States, Deutsch. Bot. Ges., Ecol. Soc. Amer., Wisconsin Acad. 

 Let. Sci. Arts, Sigma Xi, Amer. Assoc. Univ. Professors, Chaos Club (Chicago, 111.), 

 Univ. Club (Madison, Wis.). 



PUBLICATIONS 



Parthenogenisis in Thalictrum purpurascens. Bot. Gaz. 33: 363-375. 1902. — 

 Ueber Parthenogenesis bei Thalictrum purpurascens. Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 22: 

 274-283. 1904. — Ueber Reduktionsteilung in den Pollenmutterzellen einiger Dykoty- 

 len. Jahrb. wiss. Bot. 42: 121-153. 1906. — The morphology of the ascocarp and spore- 

 formation in the many-spored asci of Thecotheus pelletieri. Bot. Gaz. 42: 450-492. 

 1906. — The organization of nuclei in pollen mother cells. Ann. Bot. 23: 19-61. 1909. 

 — Organization and reconstruction of nuclei of Podophyllum. Proc. Brit. Assoc. Adv. 

 Sci. 1909: 678-679. 1910. — Studies on the relation of living cells to transpiration and 

 sap-flow. Bot. Gaz. 51:28-63, 102-120. 1911. — Artificial parthenogenesis in Fucus. 

 Science N. S. 37: 841-844. 1913. 



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