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The Michigan Alumnus 84
Henry Allan Gleason, now Assist ant Professor of Botany in the University, comes to the University from the University of Illinois. He was born at Dalton City, Ill. Jan. 2, 1882, and received his Bachelor's degree from Illinois in 1901, and his Master's degree in 1904. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1906.
Immediately following his undergraduate course at Illinois, he became assistant in botany from 1901 to 1903, becoming instructor in the same subject in the year 1903-04. The following year he served as fellow and assistant in botany in the Ohio State University. During the summer of 1904 he also served as special assistant in the Missouri Botanical Garden. In 1906 he became instructor in botany in the University of Illinois, a position which he held until 1909, when he was pro moted to associate in botany. This position he resigned to accept his pres ent position at Michigan.
Dr. Gleason is a member of the Illinois State Academy of Science; the Torrey Bo tanical Club; the Botanical Society of America; and is a Fellow in the Amer ican Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a member of Sigma Xi. He has also written a number of papers, including "A Revi sion of the North American Vernonieie," in Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden, Vol. 4, p. 144-243; "The Pedunculate Species of Trilli um," in Bulletin of the Torrey Botan ical Club, Vol. 33, pp. 377-386; mon ograph of the Platanaceae, for North American Flora, Vol. 22, part 3; "On the Biology of the Sand Areas of Illi nois," in Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, Vol. 7, pp. 137-272; "The Vegetational His tory of a River Dune," in Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Sci ence, Vol. 2, pp. 19-26; "Some Unsolved Problems of the Prairies," in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. 36, pp. 265-271; as well as some twenty other articles of minor import ance on systematic botany and ecology.