Otis William Caldwell 



B.S., Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana, 1894; Ph.D. (Botany 

 and Bacteriology), Chicago, July, 1898 



PROFESSOR OF BOTANY, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



Assistant in Botany, The University of Chicago, 1898-99; Professor of Botany, 

 Eastern Illinois State Normal School, Charleston, Illinois, 1899-1907; Associate Professor 

 of Botany, The University of Chicago, 1907-15; Professor, 1915 — . Dean, University 

 College, The University of Chicago, 1913 — . 



Member: Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (Fellow), Amer. Soc. Nat., Bot. Soc. Amer., Sigma 

 Xi. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Books. Practical botany.. ({With J. Y. Bergen.) 8vo. Boston, 1911. — Intro- 

 duction to botany. (With J. Y. Bergen.) 8vo. Boston, 1914. — Elements of general 

 science. (With W. L. Eikenberry.) 8vo. Boston, 1914. — Laboratory manual of gen- 

 eral science. (With W. L. Eikenberry and C. J. Pieper.) Boston, 1915. — Essentials of 

 agriculture. (With H. J. Waters.) Boston, 1915. 



Papers. On the life-history of Lemna minor. Bot. Gaz. 27: 37-66. 1899. — 

 The identity of Microcycas calocoma. (With C. F. Baker.) Ibid. 43 : 330-335. 1907.— 

 Microcycas calocoma. Ibid. 44: 118-141. 1907. — The teaching of botany in the high 

 school. School Rev. 15: 661-670. 1907. — The criteria of selection of material for 

 teaching of nature-study and geography. Nature-Study Rev. 3: 252-259. 1907. — 

 The school garden. Eastern Illinois state Normal School Bull. 20. 1908. — The high- 

 school course in botany. Wisconsin, Office of State Supt. of Public Instruction, Bulle- 

 tin. 1908: 1-8. 1908. — The relation of the doctorate to teaching. Univ. of Chicago 

 Mag. 1:58-64. 1908.— The course in botany. School Sci. and Math. 9: 54-66. 1909. 

 A study of Microcycas calocoma. Estacion Central Agronomica, Cuba, Reports 1909^1: 

 122-132. 1909. — An investigation of the teaching of biological subjects in secondary 

 schools. School Sci. and Math. 9: 581-597. 1909. — Natural history in the grades. 

 (Seven -papers.) Elem. School Teacher 10-11: 1-50. 1909-10. — General science for 

 the first year of the high school. Proc. Cent. Assoc. Sci. and Math. Teachers 1909: 

 115-27. 1909.— Botany in the schools. Amer. Cyclop. Education 1: 429^33. 1911. 

 — The product of our botanical teaching. Science N. S. 33: 639-642. 1911. — Should 

 the nature-study course be organized with definiteness? Nature-Study Rev. 6: 187-189. 

 1910. — Organization in the course in nature-study. Ibid. 7: 87-90. 1911. — The labor- 

 atory method and high-school efficiency. Pop. Sci. Monthly 82: 243-251. 1913.— The 

 Illinois State Academy of Science. Science N. S. 37: 496-498. 1913. — A unified high- 

 school science course. School Sci. and Math. 14: 165-169. 1914. — The course in bot- 

 any. Proc. Illinois High School Conference 1913: 89-92. 1913. — Rural extension. 

 Jour. Home Economics 6: 99-109. 1914. — The unified high-school science course. 

 Proc. Cent. Assoc. Sci. and Math. Teachers 1914: 18-21. 1914. — Investigations re- 

 garding general science. High-School Quarterly 4: 94-101. 1916. — Preparation of the 

 teacher of biology. School Sci. and Math. 16: 385-392. 1916.— The four-year high- 

 school science course. Ibid. 16: 393-399. 1916. 



