JOHN M. COULTER, 

 NOTED EDUCATOR, 

 DIES AT YONKERS 



New York, Dec. 23.— [Special.] — 

 John Merle Coulter, who has been 

 called the dean of American botanists, 

 died today at heart failure at hi.<i home 

 in Tonkers. He was 77 years old. 

 Former university professor and 

 author of many standard works on 

 l^otanical research, Mr. Coulter had 

 been sclentJflc adviser of the Boyce 

 Thompson InsUtute for Plant R&- 

 search in Tonkers for the last three 

 years. 



He was a member of university | 

 faculties for fifty-four years and In 

 1918 was professor of the American 

 Association of University Professors. 

 He was to have received on Friday 

 of this week a loving cup at a ses- 

 sion here of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science 

 in recognition of his extended work. 



In earlier years Dr. Coulter taught 

 at Hanover and Wabash colleges and 

 Imdiana university and then became 

 president of Lak» Forest university. 

 He was head of the department of 

 botany at the University of Chicagof 

 from 1896 to 1925. 



