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IOWA ACADEMY OP SCIENCE 
of the Bulletins of Natural History of the State University which should be 
continued along the same lines. 
Dr. Macbride was president of the Iowa Acadamy, 1897-98. His address, 
"‘The Academy and the People” (6:16) is inspiring, indicating the importance 
of the Academy in this empire of the Great Mississippi Valley, where the wealth 
of this republic “shall be within 150 miles of where we are gathered this 
evening.” Dr. Macbride’s prediction, though it has not as yet been entirely 
fulfilled, will be in the not distant future. 
Dr. Macbride is the leading American authority on Slime Moulds, a group 
which most students neglect. He has found time to publish a work of great 
merit, which botanists have found necessary in a study of these plants. Aside 
from this work Dr. Macbride has been especially interested in Hymenomycetes. 
Several papers of importance and of local interest have beeli publishd. 
His popular addresses, “The Alamagordo Desert”*, and “The Botany of 
*Proc. Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. 
Shakespeare”, “Iowa Parks”, “The Lakes of Iowa”, . “Schools and Scholars”, 
“What is Education,” “The Plant Responsive,” “The Plants that Serve,” “The 
City Beautiful”, “Plants and the Yosemite”, “The Sonora Desert”, “The Valley 
of the Rhine”, “Cemeteries, Old and New”, “Mr. Burbank’s' Gardens”, “Life 
and Light”, “Plant Life; the Living Cell” are charming for their simplicity and 
beauty of style. They must be counted among the classics of this kind of liter- 
ature. They represent the reflection both of a scholar and of the student. 
Dr. Macbride is a member of the Botanical Society of America, American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, American Phytopathological ‘So- 
ciety, Davenport Acadamy of Science, Botanists of the Central Western States, 
having been President in 1907; St. Louis Academy of Science, National 
Geographic Society, and of the American Forestry Association. 
Dr. Byron D. Halsted came to Iowa as the successor of Dr. C. E. Bessey, at 
Iowa State College. He was second Vice President in 1888-89, but no papers 
of his were published in the Proceedings. Dr. Halsted went to Rutgers College 
in 1889. He was, however, active along botanical lines in Iowa, issuing two 
bulletins in 1886 and 1888, covering a wide range of botanical observations, and 
a paper on an investigation of apple twigs which was later elaborated in 
Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 
Dr. Halsted was born in Venice, New York, June 7, 1852; received the degree 
of B. S., Michigan Agricultural College in 1871, M. S. in 1874; Sc. D. Harvard 
University in 1878; .a student of Dr. W. G. Farlow, was editor of the 
American Agriculturist 1879-1885; Professor of Botany, Iowa State College, 
1885-1889; Professor of Botany and for a portion of the time Botany and 
Horticulture, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, from 1889 to the present time; 
Associate Editor of Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club; Fellow, American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science; President, Botanical Society of Amer- 
ica, 1901, also of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, 1899. 
Member also of other societies; Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Society 
of Horticultural Science, etc. 
Dr. Halsted is a splendid teacher, a thorough student and a painstaking 
investigator. He did much to encourage botanical work among his students. 
While at Ames and in the early days at Rutgers he did all of the botanical 
work. Now there have developed great departments in these institutions. His 
