1950 in the FSU Biological Science History project

Faculty of the Department of Biological Science in 1950

The Department of Biological Science was not actually formed until 1956, with the merger of the departments of Bacteriology, Botany, Physiology, and Zoology, so their memberships are listed separately here. The four departments, together with the Oceanographic Institute, cooperatively offered a joint major in biology at both the undergraduate and the master's degree levels for those with interdisciplinary interests or planning to teach biology in the secondary schools. Ezda Deviney served as chairman of Biology.

Department of Bacteriology

Loretta C. Ellias, Instructor
Mary Noka Hood, Professor
Anne L. Pates, Assistant Professor

Department of Botany

Ruth S. Breen, Associate Professor
Robert William Hanks, Assistant Professor
Herman Kurz, Professor
Herbert Fenton Lamp, Instructor
Betty L. Linthicum, Instructor
Grace C. Madsen, Associate Professor
C. S. Neilsen, Associate Professor
Kenneth A. Wagner, Assistant Professor
Arthur W. Ziegler, Assistant Professor

Department of Physiology

Lloyd M. Beidler, Associate Professor
Helen A. Denyes, Assistant Professor
Viola Graham, Professor
Arlyn Curtis Higginbotham, Associate Professor
Francis R. Hunter, Professor
Meyer, Dallas K., Visiting Professor
Vera L. Ryder, Instructor
Henry M. Stevenson, Associate Professor
Ralph W. Yerger, Associate professor

Department of Zoology

Mildred Irene Boliek
Ezda M. Deviney, Professor
Laura Marie Henry, Instructor
Mary Noka Hood, Professor
Joseph Milton Odiorne, Assistant Professor
Joshua Paul Reynolds, Professor
Archibald W. Sharer, Instructor
Robert B. Short, Assistant Professor
Henry M. Stevenson, Assistant Professor

Oceanographic Institute

Harold Judson Humm, professor and director
Franklyn C. W. Olson, associate professor

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