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Calvin H. Kauffman
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Calvin Henry Kauffman, Assistant Professor of Botany, was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1869. He graduated from Harvard in 1896. Later he worked in the grad uate schools of the University of Wis consin, Cornell University and the University of Michigan. From Mich igan he received his Ph.D. in 1907.
He taught in the public schools of Leb anon, Pa., Decatur, Ind., and Bush nell. Ill. In 1902 he became Assistant in Botany at Cornell; in 1904 Instruc tor of Botany in the University of Michigan, and in 1911 Assistant Pro fessor of Botany. Professor Kauff man is a member of the Botanical So ciety of America, of Botanists of the Middle West, of American Chemical Society, the Phytopathological Socie ty, and Michigan Academy of Science. He has published a great many arti cles in Michigan Academy of Science, The Annual of Botany, and the Jour nal of Mycology.
September 3, 1895, he married Elizabeth Catherine Wolf.