IN MEMORIAM 
HERBERT R. WERNER 
1888-1920 
Herbert R. Werner, Assistant Professor of Zoology in Iowa State 
College, a member of this Academy, died of pneumonia following influ- 
enza, on February 14, 1920. To his associates he has left an example 
of perseverance, good fellowship and devotion to the highest ideals, 
and his untimely death at the age of thirty-two was a loss to the college 
and to the community of Ames. 
Mr. Werner received his early education in the public schools of his 
native town, Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania. He attended Franklin and Mar- 
shall Academy and was graduated from Franklin and Marshall College, 
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1912, when he became an assistant in Biology. 
After receiving the degree of M. Ph. from his alma mater he accepted 
a fellowship at Princeton University where he received the M. A. de- 
gree, 1914., In the fall of the same year he came to Iowa State College 
as instructor in Zoology and later was appointed Assistant Professor. 
Professor Werner was interested in mammalian chromosomes and had 
carried on considerable research work in that subject which unfortunate- 
ly was not completed at the time of his death. 
Mr. Werner will be missed by his college associates but most of all by 
those who were privileged to be intimately acquainted with his daily 
work. 
Albert Hartzell. 
R. ELLSWORTH CALL AND IOWA GEOLOGY 
R. Ellsworth Call was one of the most versatile naturalists who ever 
came within the boundaries of our state. Although personally unknown 
to any of the present generation of Academy members he was in the first 
years of our society's existence one of its most active, earnest and pro- 
ductive workers. With his recent passing in Brooklyn, New York, where 
he resided for many years, the Academy lost one of its charter members 
and an early secretary. Call belonged to the old! school of systematic 
naturalists, now fast approaching extinction. While he had wide know- 
ledge of animals and plants he knew much about particular types and 
groups. A recognized authority on mollusks, he delved extensively into 
other branches of zoology, and he did considerable very creditable work 
in the field of geology. Withal he was an ideal teacher of the sciences 
and he was especially popular as a lecturer before the young people 
and mixed audiences. 
