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Distinguished Michigan Faculty Scholar
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Pennsylvania Graduate Is Distinguished Michigan Faculty Scholar
WILLIAM RANDOLPH TAY LOR, Professor of Botany and Curator of Algae in the Uni versity Herbarium, was in charge of the algae course at the Woods Hole Laboratory, in Massachusetts —the largest marine biological lab oratory in the world—even before he joined the University's faculty in 1930, and has continued to spend his summers there. As many as 200 independent researchers usually are included in the colony and the mess is equipped to feed 450 per- sons. Dr. Taylor came to the Uni versity from the University of Pennsylvania, where he received three degrees and had risen to the rank of full Professor.
He is the author of Marine Algae of Florida and contributor of the chapter of "General Botanical Microtechni que" in the Handbook of Microscopical Technique (2 editions). The first was completed following three summers during which he had been connected with the Carnegie Lab oratory at Dry Tortugas. His most recent book is Marine Algae of the Northeastern Coast of North Amer ica, a publication of the University of Michigan Press.
Professor Taylor also has made a study of the algae of glaciers and alpine lakes in Bri tish Columbia and he was a mem ber of an interesting expedition sponsored by the California philan thropist, G. Allan Hancock, in 1934. This party made a three months' cruise along the coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, spend ing most of the time among the Galapagos Islands, and Dr. Taylor brought back much valuable ma terial which is the basis for reports upon which he now is engaged. The photography of plants and flowers is one of his hobbies. His photographs are quite closely related to his own work, although he has pro duced some unusual studies of ani mals encountered "on location." His family consists of his wife—a Sweet Briar alumna—and two little boys. They spend the summers with him at Woods Hole.