DEVELOPMENT OF PALEOBOTANY IN THE ILLINOIS BASIN 15 



Michigan University; Raymond E. Janssen became head of the Department of Geol- 

 ogy at Marshall College, Huntington, West Virginia. Noe mentioned other stu- 

 dents in his publications (1934b, 1935), and many geology students at the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago took the course in paleobotany from Noe and profited from the 

 association. 



While Professor Noe was not noted as being a particularly demanding teach- 

 er in either German or paleobotany, he was a brilliant lecturer and a most interest- 

 ing personality. He was regarded as a great storyteller and, with a typical Aus- 

 trian accent to add to the showmanship, he fascinated the students. Janssen 

 wrote us, "I was impressed by Dr. Noe's wealth of knowledge in both, fields of 

 botany and geology, and also the background of paleobotanical experience which 

 he brought from Europe. Studying under him was most exceptional because he took 

 a personal interest in his students. " 



Theodor K. Just 



Another Austrian- born botanist who contributed in quite different ways from 

 Noe to the development of paleobotany was Theodor K. Just, a graduate of the 

 University of Vienna, who came to the Midwest in 1929. Paleobotany was only 

 one of many interests for Just, and many of his activities at Notre Dame, the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, and the Field Museum of Natural History* were administrative, 

 curatorial, and editorial . Among his many editorial efforts was the joint founding 

 of Lloydia with Hoskins in 1938. 



Of his writings, which were slanted toward plant evolution, The Rates of 

 Evolutionary Processes (Just, 1944) and Gynmosperms and the Origin of Angiosperms 

 (Just, 1948) are of particular interest. His Fifty Years of Paleobotany 1906-1956 

 (Just, 1957b) provides a perspective on the major events in paleobotany, with 

 special recognition of the palynological studies from the Illinois Basin by Schopf, 

 Wilson, and Bentall (1944) and by Kosanke (1950). 



Just's (1959) last contribution was the Bibliography of American Paleobotany s 

 1952-1957 . which appeared in the same issue of Lloydia as his obituary, written 

 by Simons (1959). The bibliography is now printed annually and is still compiled 

 under the auspices of the Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of Amer- 

 ica. Arthur D. Watt of the U.S. Geological Survey is now the compiler. 



Compression- Impression Studies 



Restoration of a Pennsylvanian Coal Swamp Forest 



One of the most impressive restorations of Pennsylvanian plants to be seen 

 anywhere in the world is the famous Carboniferous Swamp Forest Group in the Ernest 

 R. Graham Hall of the Field Museum of Natural History* in Chicago, which was 

 described by Dahlgren (1933) . Noe (1934b) made a list of the plants and provided 

 specimens from the University of Chicago's Walker Museum for use in the resto- 

 ration. Bartoo wrote that Noe spent much of his extra time at the Field Museum 

 of Natural History and the Museum of Science and Industry, giving enthusiastic 

 advice on the preparation of the exhibits and the construction of the coal mine 



* The museum was called the Field Museum of Natural History from 1905 through 194-2. Prom 194-3 

 through 1965 it was known as the Chicago Natural History Museum, but it again became the 

 Field Museum of Natural History in 1966 and has retained that name. 



