Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-03
DIR. LEWIS APPOINTED
TO CHAIR OF BIOLOGY
Member Of Faculty OK University of
Wisconsin Comes to University
OF Virginia.
NATIVE OF NORTH CAROLINA
He Has Achieved Much Along scien.
tiffc Lines, and Is the Author of
Many Valuable Papers-Budget
for 1015-1O16 Adopted.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE VA. Nav q
President Edwin a. Alderman. OF the
University OF Virginia. has announced
inc appointment Of DR.. 1. r. Lewis. Of
inc University OF Wisconsin, to tho
chair OF biology at tho University OF
virginia. DR.. Lewis was elected to this
position by the board OF visitors at its
meeting yesterday. IIe succeeds in that
chair Professor Albert II. futile. who
retired some time ago on the Carnegie
Foundation.
inc meeting OF the board was the
annual budget" meeting. The total
appropriations for tho academic year
or i9l5,lsl6 amount to $332.S12. This
Is the largest amount ever entered in
tho university's budget
PROVISION Is made for a new pro-
lessor In tho department Of education.
10 be appointed, and for tho recently
organized department of forestry.
PROFESSOR LEWIS IS
NORTH CAROLINIAS
PIotessor Lewis is native of Ra-
leigh. y. G. He Is a son OF DR. r JTJ
Lewis. who was graduated in medicine
1870. III
Professor Lewis received tho degrees
OF bachelor Of arts and master OF
sciehce at the University of North Caro-
ma IN 1902 and 1903 respectively He
received the degree OF doctor OF nhilos.
opny at Johns Hopkins University In
1908. The session of 1923 he was as
sistant In biology at the University
"a Sorth carolina. In the fall OF 1903
~ neGame graduate student at Johns
i,oPklhs. He served as professor of
biology at Randolph Macon College
curing the session Of 1856, when he
oootaineo q years leave OF absence to
complete his studies at Johns HopkIns
OusihG March and April OF 1905 he
ooeup.ed inc Smithsonian table at the
GEOLOGICAL station In Naples. For one
semester OF that year no studied at the
University OF Bonn. Germany. Then
ne returned to Randolph Macon. where
ne remained as professor Of biology
untli 1912. In that year he was ap-
Johns Hopkins. He soon resirned
however. to accept the post of as
sistant preseason Of botany at the Uni.
Eersit| of Wisconsin, where he has
since been
Professor Lewis has devoted his sum.
ners since 1904 to various kinds OF
profitable scientific work In the sum
,her or that year he was instructor in
notany mt the summer session of the
university OF North Carolina. and later
nc was appointed research student in
tho laboratory Of the BROOKLYN Insti'
tute at Cold Spring Harbor. Long Is
land. The summer of 1866 he was
scientific assistant in the Bureau NJ
risher!es laboratory at Beaufort. y.
-, and he held this position again in
aso': IN the late spring OF 1865 he
went TO Jamaica. where. on grant
from the Bache Fund. he did consid-
erabie work in his field OF science Ue
worked In the Marine Biological Lab
oratory at Woods Hole. Mass, as in
structor In botany during the summer
OF 1907 and OF 1910. In 1908 he was
appointed TO the STAFF for summer work
at the Biologische Anstalt In Helro.
land.
AUTHOR OF MANY
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Professor Lewis has published many
scientific papers In the Johns HOPKINS
circular, the Annals OF Botany. the Bo-
tanical Gazette, Archiv fur Protisten
kunde and the Bulletin Of the United
states Bureau OF Fisheries.
when he was student at Johns
hopkins. he won the highest honors
mat student could win. including
a scholarship. the fellowship In his
department. and then Bruce Fellow
snip. While there. he worked under
the great biologist w. X. Brooks, and
br. Duncan S. Johnson. In Botany. In
1909 he won the Walker Prize in Nat
ural History, awarded By the Cam
bridge Society OF Natural History. He
holds n fellowship in the American
association for the Advancement OF
science, and he Is n member of the
botanical Society of America.