Arthur G. Vestal Born: LaGrange, IL 9/10/1888; died 6/5/1964 Education: Illinois (B.A. 1911); Colorado (M.A. 1913); Chicago (Ph.D. 1915) Dissertation title: Phytogeography of the eastern mountain front in Colorado (Bot. Gaz. 68:153-193) Advisor: Henry C. Cowles (confirmed by R. Brewer) Other influences: Also influenced by Francis Ramaley, his Master’s adviser, and Henry A. Gleason, with whom he worked as an…
James W. Toumey Born: Lawrence, MI 4/17/1864; died 1932 Education: Michigan Agric. College (B.S. 1889; M.S. 1896); Yale (M.A. 1906). Advisor: (no Ph.D.) Teaching history: Arizona 1892-98; Yale 1901-? Ph.D. students: Clarence F. Korstian
Lewis H. Tiffany Born: Lawrenceville, IL 7/29/1894; died 3/16/1965 Education: Eastern Illinois State Teachers College (1912-15); Chicago (B.S. 1919); Ohio State (M.S. 1921, Ph.D. 1923) Dissertation title: A physiological study of growth and reproduction among certain green algae (Ohio J. Sci. 24:65-98) Advisor: Edgar N. Transeau (signed dissertation) Teaching history: Ohio State 1920-37; Northwestern 1937-1962 (emeritus) Ph.D. students: Others influenced:…
CONTENTSCelebrating ESA and the History of Ecology in BaltimoreMore to Celebrate from the University of Georgia Archives!What You Can Find in the Paul B. Sears Papers at Yale UniversityInteractive Maps: A Fun Way to Explore the Diverse Early Membership of ESA[Download full PDF version here.] Celebrating ESA and the History of Ecology in Baltimore, August 2015Among the many activities celebrating…
Marion Ellis, Dean of Women at the Michigan Biological Station, wrote a chatty letter to A. G. Vestal in 1915 describing life at the Station (founded 1909) and providing news of colleagues and their families. Her husband Max Ellis was a zoologist on the staff, and H. A. Gleason was the Director. (A. G. Vestal Papers) Marion Ellis to A.G….
Forest W. Stearns Born: Milwaukee, WI 9/10/18. died 9/8/1999 Education: Harvard (B.A. 1939); Wisconsin (Ph.M. 1940; Ph.D. 1947) Dissertation title: The composition of the sugar maple-hemlock-yellow birch association in northern Wisconsin (Ecology 32:245-265) Advisor: John T. Curtis (C) Teaching history: Purdue 1947-57; Univ. of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) 1968-87 ESA offices and honors: Vice President 1971-72; Treasurer 1972-75; President 1975-76; Distinguished Service…
Forrest Shreve Born: Easton, MD 7/8/1878; died 7/19/50 Education: Johns Hopkins (B.A. 1901; Ph.D. 1905) Dissertation title: The development and anatomy of Sarracenia purpurea L. (Bot. Gaz. 42:107-126) Teaching history: Johns Hopkins 1905-06; Goucher Coll. 1906-08 Advisor: Duncan S. Johnson (D) Comments: Sometimes thought to be a student of Burton E. Livingston (cf. H. A. Gleason letter to C. H….
Victor E. Shelford Born: Chemung, NY 9/22/1877; died 12/27/1968 Education: Univ. of Chicago (B.S. 1903; Ph.D. 1907) Dissertation title: The life histories and larval habits of the tiger beetles (J. Linn. Soc. London (Zool.) 30:157-184) Advisor: C. M. Child (see comments) Comments: Academic mentorship at Chicago in the early 20th century seems to have been rather ambiguous. According to his…