The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02
DIR, |. +. LEWIS NAMED
10 CHAIR Of B|0l0GI
Announcement Made Yesterday BY mr.
Alderman OF wisconsin Educators
Election.
MAN OF HIGH ATTAINMENT
Was Professor of Biology ~ RAM
dolph- Macon College, Session ot
fs05-'0s. Going Thence to Johns
Hopkins.

Especial TO The Richmond virginian.)
Charlottesville, Va, May 1.-Pres-
| ident Edwin A. Alderman, Of the
University OF Virginia, announced to-
day the appointment CT DIR. /. II.
Lewis, OF the University Of WISCONSIN,
to the chair Of biology nc the Uni
versity OF Virginia. Dr. Lewis was
! elected to this position by the Board
of Visitors at Its meeting yesterday.
He succeeds In that chair Prof. AL
bert III. futile, who retired some time
ago on the Carnegie Foundation.
The. meeting OF the board was the
annual budget" meeting. The to-
tai appropriations for the academic
year of 1si5-1916 amount to $sS2,-
S12. This Is the largest amount ever
entered in the University's budget.
Provision is made for q new pro-
lessor in the Department of Educa-
tion. to be appointed. and for the re-
Gently organized Department or For-
estry.
Professor Lewis is a native OF
Raleigh, N. c. He Is son of DIR. r.
H. Lewis. who was graduated in med
icine from the University of Vir-
ginia In 1870.
Receives Many Degrees.
Professor Lewis received the de-
of science at the University of North
Carolina in 1899 and 1903. respec-
lively. He received the degree %
doctor of philosophy at Johns Hop
kins University In 1908. The session
of 1902-03 he was assistant In bfoio-
gy at the University OF North Carr
lima. In the fall Of 1903 he became
graduate student at Johns Hop
iSins. He served as professor OF biol
ogy at Randolph-M Macon College dur
ing the session Of 1s05-06, when he
obtained years leave Of absence To
complete his studies at Johns Hop
kins, During March and April OF
1908 he occupied the Smithsonian
| Table at the Zoological Station In
Naples. For the semester of that
year he studied at the University OF
Bonn, Germany. Then he returned
to Rand olph- Macon, where he re-
maind as professor Of biology until
1919. In that year he was appointed
lecturer in protistology at Johns Hop
kins. He soon resigned, however. to
accept the post of ASSISTANT profess
sor of botany at the University Of
Wisconsin, where he has since been.
Professor Lewis has devoted hts
summers since 1904 to various kinds
of profitable scientific work. In the
summer of that year he was instruc-
tor In botany at the summer session
of the University OF North Carolina.
| and later he was appointed research
student in the laboratory OF the
Brooklyn Institute at Cold Spring
Harbor, Lone Island. The summer
| of ls05-o6 he was scientific assistant
| in the Bureau OF Fisheries Labora-
| tory at Beauford, ". c., and he held
this position again In 1909. In the
late spring Of 1895 he went TO ia
maica, where. on a grant from the
Bache Fund. he did considerable work
| in his field Of science. He worked
| In the Marine Biological Laboratory
at Woods Hole, Mass, as instructor
| In botany during the summers of 1907
and Of 1910. In 1908 he was appoint
ed to the staff for summer work at
the Biologische Anstait in Helgo-