Prof. CHAS. B. WILSON 



Biologist 



Until 1932 Head of the Science Department at State Teachers 

 College, Westfield, Professor Wilson, who was immensely popular 

 with the students and among his confreres of the faculty, is a 

 Biologist whose favourite forte is the stud^' of marine an:i fresh- 

 water life. He was a member of the Johns Hopkins Biological Ex- 

 pedition to Jamaica in 1897, and in ^98-'99 was a research w^orker 

 in the Tufts College Biological Laboratory at South Harpswell, 

 Maine. From 1900 to 1923 Dr. Wilson served during summer vaca- 

 tions as temporary assistant of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries. In 

 this latter work the summers of 1900 to 1906 were spent at Woods 

 Hole, Mass., at Beaufort, N.C, and at Lake Maxinkuckee, Ind. 



In 1910 he went with another Johns Hopkins Expedition to 

 Jamaica, and four months were devoted to the study of the parasites 

 of tropical fishes. During 1911 a survey of the ponds and lakes of 

 Minnesota, and during 1912 of the Cumberland Biver, was made in 

 the interests of the pearl button manufacturing industry. The 

 summers from ]913 to 1923 were spent at the Bureau of Fisheries 

 at Fairport, Iowa, investigating the relation of water insects to 

 fishpond culture, and subsequent years to similarly interesting re- 

 search, including the identification, at Woods Hole, Mass, of the 

 copepod plankton obtained during the last cruise of the ship 

 "Carnegie^' which cruised under the auspices of the Carnegie in- 

 stitute of Washington, D.C. Since his retirement Professor 

 Wilson intends to devote most of the yesiY instead of summer only, 

 to these researches into marine life. 



Dr. Charles Branch Wilson was born in Exeter, Maine, Oct. 

 20, 1861, and received his education at Colb}^ College, graduating 

 in 1881 with the B.A. degree. Remaining at Colby as postgraduate 

 student and tutor in Botany from 1881 to 1884 he received the M.A. 

 in the latter year. In 1908 he was accorded the honorary degree 

 of Sc.D. 



Dr. Wilson became Professor of Natural Sciences at the State 

 Normal School, Gorham, Maine, but resigned to make further 

 studies at Johns Hopkins University, where he remained as student 

 assistant 1895-6, and from which he received the degree of Ph.D. 

 in 1910. In September, 1896, he was appointed Professor of Biology 

 at the State Teachers College, Westfield, and in 1897 was made 

 head of the Science Department, which included Geography. Fi'om 

 this position he retired after 36 years of continuous work with but 

 a single leave of absence. 



