Before 1950 (updated 10 July 2009)

The Department of Biological Science was not actually formed until 1956, with the merger of the departments of Bacteriology, Botany, Physiology, and Zoology.

Administration
Arrivals
Departures
Publications

Administration

1940-1947: Herman Kurz was head of the Department of Botany and Bacteriology.

1947-1951: In 1947, the Department of Botany and Bacteriology split into two separate departments, and Herman Kurz remained head of the Department of Botany until 1951.

1909 Arrivals

  • New faculty member Lanas Spurgeon Barber (Zoology)

1916 Arrivals

  • New faculty member Alban Stewart (Bacteriology and Botany)

1922 Arrivals

  • New faculty member Herman Kurz (Botany)

1924 Arrivals

  • New instructor Ezda M. Deviney (Zoology)

1926 Arrivals

  • New instructor Ruth Olive Schornherst Breen (Botany)

1929 Arrivals

  • New associate professor Viola Graham (Physiology)
  • New instructor Elizabeth Adeline Griffing (Bacteriology)

1936 Arrivals

  • New instructor Mildred Irene Boliek (Zoology)

1938 Arrivals

  • New faculty member Mary Noka Hood (Bacteriology)

1940 Arrivals

  • New instructor Grace C. Madsen (Botany)
  • Temporary instructor William M. Carlton (Botany), who, for one year, replaced a faculty member on leave of absence

1942 Arrivals

  • New instructor Ellen Corinne Keaty (Physiology)

1943 Arrivals

  • New instructor Mabel Jean Thacker (Bacteriology), as a replacement for Dr. Hood, on leave

1945 Arrivals

  • New instructor Betty L. Linthicum (Botany)
  • New instructor Ida Mary Scharfschwerdt (Bacteriology and Botany)
  • New instructor Carolyn L. Trump (Zoology)

1946 Arrivals

  • New instructor Loretta C. Ellias (Bacteriology)
  • New assistant professor C. S. Nielsen (Botany)
  • New assistant professor Henry M. Stevenson (Zoology)

1947 Arrivals

  • New instructor Cleo Mary Hummel (Zoology)
  • New instructor Herbert Fenton Lamp (Botany)
  • New instructor Betty Louise Linthicum (Botany)
  • New instructor Vera L. Ryder (Physiology)
  • New assistant professor Theodore D. Slocum (Physiology)
  • New assistant professor Joseph Milton Odiorne (Zoology)

1948 Arrivals

  • New assistant professor Arthur W. Ziegler (Botany)
  • New associate professor Arlyn Curtis Higginbotham
  • New instructor Mary Noka Hood

1949 Arrivals

  • New instructor William Kenley Clark (Zoology)
  • New instructor Laura Marie Henry (Zoology)
  • New assistant professor Helen A. Denyes (Physiology)
  • New assistant professor Robert William Hanks (Botany)
  • New assistant professor Anne L. Pates (Bacteriology)
  • New professor Joshua Paul Reynolds (Zoology)
  • New assistant professor Kenneth A. Wagner (Botany)
  • New professor and director of the Oceanographic Institute Harold Judson Humm

1936 Departures

  • Instructor Elizabeth Adeline Griffing (Bacteriology)

1940 Departures

  • Professor Alban Stewart (Bacteriology and Botany)

1943 Departures

  • Instructor Ellen Corinne Keaty (Physiology)
  • Instructor Ida Mary Scharfschwerdt (Bacteriology and Botany)

1945 Departures

  • Professor Lanas Spurgeon Barber (Zoology) retired. Dr. Barber died in 1946.
  • instructor Mabel Jean Thacker (Bacteriology)

1947 Departures

  • Instructor Carolyn L. Trump (Zoology)

1948 Departures

  • Assistant professor Theodore D. Slocum (Physiology)

Obituaries

  • Professor Alban Stewart (Bacteriology and Botany) died 31 May 1940 after a long illness.
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