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The Michigan Alumnus 65-77
Henri Theodore Antoine de Leng Hus was born at Leyden, Holland, May 14, 1876.
After receiving his early education in the secondary schools of Holland, Germany, and England, he came to America, and entered the University of California, where he was graduated with the degree of B.S. in 1897, receiving his Master's degree two years later. After two years' pursuit of graduate study at California, he returned to Europe, and entered the University of Amsterdam, where he became First Assistant in the Laboratory for Plant Physiology, a position which he held for two years, until 1903.
He then returned to the University of California, where he pursued further graduate studies, and became Assistant in Botany.
In 1905 he became Experimenter in the Missouri Botanical Garden, Washington University, St. Louis, where he also took up further graduate study, leading to the degree of Ph.D. in 1908. The same year he was appointed instructor in Botany at the University of Michigan, a position, which he held until his recent appointment to an Assistant Professorship.
Professor Hus is the author of some thirty articles in the leading botanical journals. Of these the principal are:
1. An account of the species of Porphyra of the Pacific Coast of North America. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc.; Botany, 3d Ser., Vol.
2, No. 6, 1902. 2. Fasciations of known causation. Amer. Nat., Vol. 42, 1908.
3. An ecological cross section of the Mississippi River in the Region of St. Louis, Mo. Annual Rep. Mo. Bot. Garden, Vol. 19, 1908.
Besides these, various translations from the works of Professor Hugo de Vries, and, in co-operation with H. S. Conrad, a book entitled "Water- lilies," Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907.
As a result of the influence exerted by Professor de Vries of Amsterdam, Mr. Hus, since 1903, has devoted his entire energy to research in genetics.
Professor Hus was married August 30, 1905, at St. Louis, to Miss Florence Harriet Thiell.