Edward Otto Heuse (1879-1954)

The death on June 2, 1954, of Dr. Heuse, professor of chemistry from 1918 to 1949, has removed the last of three long-term professors of science in Southern Methodist University

Ocular Asymmetry in certain Texas Isopods

cente parce glandulosa; corolla 2.2-3 cm. longa; nuculis glabris 4 mm

William D. Moore (1824-96), Amateur Geologist Of Mississippi

It is now nearly ninety years since William D. Moore, then professor of English at the University of Mississippi, collaborated with Eugene W. Hilgard on his famous geological report of that State. The archivists and historians have lost Moore from their records (if, indeed, they ever sought seriously for information of him), so that what was written five years ago of W. D. Moore (in another connection) remains as true as it was then: No record of whence he came, or whither went (when the University closed in 1861), is to be found at the Univer­sity. Since the present writer has been for some time gathering materials on the teaching of science in certain Southern universities and colleges before the Civil War, and since there is now no reason for obscurity about this gifted amateur of science, it seems well to put on paper the outlines, at least, of what we know of his life and work

William Douglas Wallach, Pioneer Hydrographer Of Texas

A recent issue of the Southwest Review gives an account of some phases of the life of William Douglas Wallach (1812-71), noted editor of the Washington Evening Star (1853-67), and at an earlier period (1838-45) surveyor and newspaper editor in Texas. To an historian of scientific work and exploration in Early Texas, the career of Wallach is of especial interest. Almost the first hydrographic work on inland coast-wise waters of the State was done by Wallach in his survey of part of Matagorda Bay, 1839 (at the request and expense of the Board of Aldermen of Matagorda

Porcellio quadriseriatus (Isopoda) at Dallas, Texas

The eastern Mediterranean species, Porcellio (Proporcellio) quadriseriatus Verh. (which for some years has been locally very abundant near Southern Methodist University at Dallas), was first found in the summer and fall of 1925 in a rubbish- and stone dump on a corner of the campus

Ellis William Shuler, Ph.D., LL.D.

When Dean Shuler retired from the deanship of the Graduate School of Southern Methodist University last September, the university lost from active teaching the last member of its original faculty of 1915. As associate professor and professor of geology for thirty-seven years, and as chairman of the Graduate Committee, or dean of the Graduate School for thirty years, Dean Shuler has been one of the bulwarks of the developing university. The editors of FIELD & LABORATORY take lively satisfaction in dedicating this volume of the journal to Dr. Shuler

Men of Science in Texas, 1820-1880: V

A collection of short biographies of naturalists in Texas during the years 1829 thru 1880, from Norris to Zink

Book Review: The Hermit-Philosopher of Liendo, by I. K. Stephens

April 17, 1951 was the fortieth anniversary of the death of Edmund Montgomery; and on that date the Southern Methodist University Press. published the first biography of this eminent British-American philosopher. Handsome, urbane, educated in medicine at Heidelberg, Berlin, Bonn, Wiirzburg, Prague, and Vienna, member of the Royal College, of Physicians of London, this scientist-philosopher whose work was. admired by Europe\u27s keenest intellects, lived for many years obscurely on a plantation at Hempstead, Texas. A less likely cultural home for this illegitimate son of a Scottish lord could scarcely be imagined.... This admirable biography of Edmund Montgomery (1835-1911) philosopher and scientist, and of his wife Elisabet Ney (1833-1907), Bavarian sculptor, leaves little to be desired

Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (1797-1856), Pioneer American Araneologist

An account the life of one of the least known among antebellum Southern naturalists. Nicholas Marcellus Hentz was, before his death a hundred years ago – he died 4 November, 1856 – the great American student of spiders. Through his numerous publications, including some 18 articles and a book, he gained wide acclaim as a naturalist