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

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

Men of Science in Texas, 1820-1880: II

In the last issue of Field & Laboratory (26, 86-139) appeared the first 331 sketches (Abadie to Gilbert) of collectors, explorers, and observers, in a series that will extend through several issues. My fears of omissions were justified: I find that a sketch of Samuel Botsford Buckley (1809-84), a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and twice State Geologist of Texas (1866-7 and 1874-5) was unaccountably omitted. This omission is the more notable since for twenty years I have been holding in abeyance the publication of a sketch of Buckley (on whom I have very extensive materials) waiting for a portrait of this naturalist to come into my possession. The series continues

Medical Education in Dallas, 1900-1910

Data are here presented to supplement, amplify, and in some matters to correct the incidental historical content of Carl Moyer\u27s interesting address on Medical Education in Dallas , written originally for radio presentation. He sets forth in vigorous fashion problems of present-day medical training, and particularly those of the local medical school, of which he was Dean. He spoke with such authority on cur­ rent problems and achieved his major purpose so well that his historical side-glances, in many respects erroneous, might be uncritically accepted by students of medical history. Moyer\u27s purpose was not historical and his data were prob­ ably taken from biographies published within the past decade. My purpose is exclusively historical. It is to present data drawn from contemporary records relating to the nine (not two) Dallas medical schools projected during the decade ending 1910, with some notice of the medical training of men concerned with them