Henry Chandler Cowles 



A.B., Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1893; Ph.D. (Botany and 

 Geology), Chicago, April, 1898 



PROFESSOR OF PLANT ECOLOGY, THE UNIVERSITY OF 

 CHICAGO, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



Assistant in Botany, TheUniversity of Chicago, 1898-01 ; Associate, 1901-02; Instructor, 

 1902-07; Assistant Professor of Plant Ecology, 1907-11; Associate Professor, 1911-15; Pro- 

 fessor, 1915 — 



Member: Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sol. (Fellow; Vice-President for Botany, 1913), Assoc. 

 Amer. Geog. (President, 1910), Bot. Soc. Amer., Ecol. Soc. Amer., Gamma Alpha, Sigma 



PUBLICATIONS 



Outline of lectures on ecology. 6 pp. Milwaukee, 1898. — The ecological relations 

 of the vegetation on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan. Bot. Gaz. 27: 95-117, 167- 

 202, 281-308, 361-391. 1899. The physiographic ecology of northern Michigan. 

 Science N. S. 12: 708-709. 1900. — The physiographic ecology of Chicago and vicinity. 

 Bot. Gaz. 31: 73-108, 145-182. 1901.— The plant societies of Chicago and vicinity. 

 76 pp. Chicago, 1901. — The influence of underlying rocks on the character of the vege- 

 tation. Bull. Amer. Bur. Geog. 2: 1-26. 1901. — The work of the year 1903 in ecology. 

 Science N. S. 19: 879-885. 1904. — A remarkable colony of northern plants along the 

 Apalachicola river, Florida, and its significance. Rept. 8th. Internat. Geog. Cong. (1904) 

 p. 599. Importance of the physiographic standpoint in plant geography. Ibid. (1904) 

 p. 600. — An ecological aspect of the conception of species. Amer. Nat. 42: 265-271. 

 1908. — The response of plants to soil and climate. {In Salisbury's Physiography for High 

 Schools, pp. 46^-473.) New York, 1908. — The trend of ecological philosophy. Amer. Nat. 

 43: 356-368. 1909. — The fundamental causes of succession among plant associations. 

 Rept. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1909: 668-670. 1910.— Charles Reid Barnes. Science N. 

 S. 31: 532-533. 1910. — A fifteen year study of advancing sand dunes. Rept. Brit. 

 Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1911: 565. 1912. — Causes of vegetative cycles. Bot. Gaz. 51: 161- 

 183. 1911.— Conservation of our forests. Trans. 111. Acad. Sci. 5: 48-53. 1912.— 

 A textbook of botany. Vol. II, Ecology. 8vo., x -|- 480 pp. New York, 1912.— The 

 causes of vegetational cycles. Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geog. 1: 3-20. 1912. — Impressions 

 of the international phytogeographical excursion in the British Isles. New Phytol. 

 11: 25-26. 1912. — The international phytogeographical excursion in the British Isles. 

 Plant World 15: 46^8. 1912. — The international phytogeographic excursion in Amer- 

 ica. Excursion program. 60 pp. Chicago, etc., 1913. — The economic trend of bot- 

 any. Science N. S. 41: 223-229. 1915.— A spring flora for high schools. {With J. 

 G. Coulter.) 144 pp. New York, 1915. 



