RAYMOND J. POOL 
tials of College Botany" which he wrote (1914) with the assistance of 
his son, Dr. Ernst A. Bessey, was really another (the eighth) edition 
of the first elementary book. 
At Nebraska, Bessey 's ability as a college administrator was 
recognized at various times by the regents. At one time he was also 
acting president at Ames. He went to Nebraska as professor of 
botany and dean of the Industrial College. This deanship he held 
from 1884 to 1888 and again from 1895 to 1909, when he was made 
head dean. He was dean of the college of literature, science, and 
the arts from 1888 to 1 891. He was made acting chancellor of the 
university in the summer of 1888, being called home from Europe, 
where he had gone with Mrs. Bessey to spend the summer in study. 
This position he held until 1891 when he succeeded in obtaining the 
appointment of Professor Canfield as chancellor. He was made 
chancellor ad interim again in 1899, and still once more, in 1907. 
On December 25, 1873, Charles E. Bessey was married to Miss 
Lucy Athearn of West Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. 
To them three sons were born: Edward, Ernst, and Carl. All of the 
sons graduated from the University of Nebraska. Edward and Carl 
specialized in electrical engineering. The former was assistant 
professor of electrical engineering in the Colorado Agricultural College 
at Fort Collins at the time of his death on July 12, 1910. Carl is at 
present assistant chief engineer of the firm of Byllesby and Co., 
Chicago. Ernst specialized in botany and is at the present time 
professor of botany at the Michigan Agricultural College, his illustrious 
father's alma mater. Mrs. Bessey retains her home at 1507 R Street, 
Lincoln. 
The University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 
A Partial List of Botanical Articles and Books Published 
BY Charles E. Bessey^ 
1 87 1. Natural science in common schools. Iowa Instructor and School Journal 
12: 238-240. 1871. 
Contributions to the flora of Iowa. Report to Board of Trustees Iowa 
Agricultural College for 1871. 
1872. Lemna polyrrhiza. Amer. Nat. 6: 636. 1872. 
1873. Directions for collecting mosses and lichens. Ames, Iowa. 1873. 
Sensitive stamens in Portulaca. Amer. Nat. 7: 464-465. 1873. 
^ I wish to thank Dr. Ernst A. Bessey for help in connection with the prepara- 
tion of this sketch, also Professor T. J. Fitzpatrick for a number of titles that have 
been included in the bibliography. — R. J. P. 
