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Published Quarterly by the 
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2001 NorTH CLARK STREET, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 
Number 40 December, 1941 
— 
Dr. Reuben Myron Strong 
President, Illinois Audubon Society 
By Dr. ALFRED LEWY 
Dr. STRONG was born in West Allis, Wisconsin, in 1872. He lived in 
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, from 18738 to 1891. After an education in the public 
schools he taught for one year, 1890 to 1891, in a Milwaukee County district 
school. Then he went to Oberlin College, where he graduated in 1897 with 
the degree of A.B. 
His interest in natural history began in childhood. During his high 
school years he collected and identified most of the flowering plants in the 
Wauwatosa region and was active in ornithology. There were no prism 
binocular field glasses so his identifications of birds were made by collect- 
ing. The specimens were later presented to the Milwaukee Public Museum. 
He was encouraged by William Morton Wheeler, curator of the Museum, 
who later became a distinguished entomologist and Harvard University 
professor, and by Carl Akeley, the well known artist and taxidermist. In 
1898 Dr. Strong went to Harvard, where he received degrees of A.M. and 
Ph.D. In 1902-3 he took the place of Professor of Biology at Haverford 
College. While doing some research work at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, he 
was discovered by Prof. C. O. Whitman, who brought him to Chicago for a 
year on a Carnegie research assistantship. He became a member of the 
Department of Zoology at the University of Chicago in 1903. While in 
Chicago he met and married Ethel Freeman. He remained there until 
September, 1914, when he was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the 
University of Mississippi for two years, followed by two years in a similar 
position at Vanderbilt University. In 1918 Dr. Strong returned to Chicago 
as head of the Department of Anatomy at Loyola University Medical 
School, which position he still holds. 
In the field of ornithology he has a long and enviable record. He was 
one of the founders of the Wilson Ornithological Club in December, 1888, 
first treasurer of that organization, vice-president in 1894, and president 
from 1894 to 1901 and again from 1920 to 1921, and publisher of the Wilson 
Bulletin, their official organ. He became a member of the American Orni- 
thological Union in 1889. He is a member of a number of scientific societies, 
two of them medical. His academic records are published in ““Who’s Who in 
America” and in “American Men of Science,” where he appears in the first 
and subsequent editions among the first one thousand men of science. 
In 1904 to 1914 he gave, by special request, a course in birds at the 
University of Chicago. This course was given during the Spring quarter 
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