. History of the University of Michigan . nBiology in 1893. DEAN CONANT WORCESTER was born at Thetford, Vermont, October r, 1866, sonof Ezra and Ellen (Conant) Worcester. Both par-ents were of New England descent. He was pre-pared for college at the High School, Newton,Massachusetts. He entered the University of Michi-gan in 1884, and was graduated Bachelor of/Vrts in1889. The year 188 7-1888 had been spent as anaember of the J. B. Steere Scientific Expedition tothe Philippine Islands. Erom 1890 to 1893, in conjunction with Frank S. Bourns ( 1890) heconducted the Manage Scientific Expediti
. History of the University of Michigan . nBiology in 1893. DEAN CONANT WORCESTER was born at Thetford, Vermont, October r, 1866, sonof Ezra and Ellen (Conant) Worcester. Both par-ents were of New England descent. He was pre-pared for college at the High School, Newton,Massachusetts. He entered the University of Michi-gan in 1884, and was graduated Bachelor of/Vrts in1889. The year 188 7-1888 had been spent as anaember of the J. B. Steere Scientific Expedition tothe Philippine Islands. Erom 1890 to 1893, in conjunction with Frank S. Bourns ( 1890) heconducted the Manage Scientific Expedition to thePhilippines. In 1893 he returned to the Lhiiversityas Instructor in Animal Morphology and in 1S94was advanced to the rank of Assistant Professor ofAnimal Morphology. From 1895 to 1899 he vfasAssistant Professor of Zoology and Curator of theZoological Museum. In January, 1899, he was ap-pointed United States Philippine Commissioner;September i, 1901, he was made Secretary of theInterior in the Philippine Insular (Sovernment ; and. DEAN CONANT early in 1906 he became Superintendent of PublicInstruction for the Philippine Islands. He is aFellow of the .American .Association for the Advance-ment of Science, a corresponding Fellow of the Or-nithologists LTnion, and a member of the ^VashingtonAcademy of Sciences. He is author of ThePhilippine Islands and their Peoples (1899), andof various papers on the Birds and Mammals ofthe Philippines. He was married in Pasadena,California, April 27, 1893, to Nanon Fay Leas, andthey have two children, .Alice and Frederick. EMORY BAIR LEASE, who received thedegree of Bachelor of Arts from Ohio WesleyanUniversity in 1885, the degree of Master of Arts THE UNIVERSITT SENATE 351 from the same institution in 1888, and the degreeof Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins Uni-versity in 1894, was appointed Assistant Professorof Latin in the University of Michigan in 1S96 forone year, in place of Professor Rolfe absent onleave. Latterl
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