John Merle Coulter 



A.B., Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, 1870; A.M., 1873; Ph.D., Hanover 

 College and Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1882 



PROFESSOR AND HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, 

 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



Botanist, Hayden Survey of the Territories, 1872-74; Professor of Natural 

 Science, Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, 1874-79; Professor of Biology, 

 Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1879-91; President, and Professor of 

 Botany, Indiana University, 1891-93; President, Lake Forest University, Lake 

 Forest, Illinois, 1893-96; Professor and Head of the Department of Botany, 

 The University of Chicago, 1896 — . 



Member: Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. (Associate Fellow), Amer. Assoc. 

 Adv. Sci. (Fellow; Vice-President, 1891), Amer. Soc. Nat., Bot. Soc. Amer. 

 (President, 1897, 1915), Bot. Soc. Edinburgh (Corresponding Fellow), Botanists 

 Cent. States, Chicago Acad. Sci. (President, 1915), Illinois Acad. Sci. (Presi- 

 dent, 1910), Indiana Acad. Sci. (President, 1886), Linn. Soc. London (Foreign 

 Member), National Acad. Sci., Washington Acad. Sci. 



Founder of the Botanical Gazette, 1875; Editor of the same, 1875 — . 



Coulterella, a genus of Compositae, named in honor of John Merle Coulter. 

 Vasey, G. R., and Rose, J. N., Contrib. U. S. National Herb. 1: 71. 1890. 



Coulterophytum, a genus of Umbelliferae, named in honor of John Merle 

 Coulter. Robinson, B. L., Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. 27: 168. 1892. 



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