subject of parliamentary law, and assisted Prof. Baldwin, chief justice of Connecticut in the preparation of his work on railroad law by verifying the citations in this work. Mr. Hambrecht has been a successful teacher, having been assistant and principal of the Howe high school at Grand Rapids. Since graduating from Yale he has practiced law in Grand Rapids being associated with Hon. H. C. Wipperman until 1907, since which time he has been in business alone. He served his ward as supervisor two years and for the past year has been city attorney. He was elected to the assembly in 1908, receiving 2,820 votes against 2,720 for W. E. Whelan (Dem)., and 217 for Louis Wollason (Soc. Dem.).

OFFICERS OF THE ASSEMBLY.

C. E. Shaffer.

CHIEF CLERK.

C. E. SHAFFER (Rep.) is a native of Dane county and was born and raised on a farm where, with the exception of the time spent at school, he worked until the age of twenty-one. He was educated in the common schools, private academy and a business college. He taught in district and graded schools and in 190001 was instructor in mathematics and bookkeeping in the Madison Business College. He was elected chief clerk of the assembly January 9, 1907, and again in January, 1909. He is Secretary of the Republican county committee of Dane county, to which position he was elected in 1906 and re-elected in 1908. He is a resident of the city of Madison and since 1901 has been engaged in th real estate and insurance business.

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS.

WILLIAM S. IRVINE (Rep.) was born in Maryland, March 18th, 1851; came with his parents to Wisconsin in 1852, setting in Trempealeau county: received his education in the common schools; removed to Clark county in 1870, and began farming in 1873; was elected member of assembly in 1902 and re-elected in 1904. Was chosen sergeant-at-arms of the assembly at the session of 1907 and again at the session of 1909.

UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT HEADS.

PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY.

CHARLES RICHARD VAN HISE, Ph. D., LL. D., President of the University, was born May 29, 1857, at Fulton, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1879, with the degree of Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering. Since that time from the University he has received the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in 1880; Master of Science in 1882; and Doctor of Philosophy in 1892. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Chicago, in 1903, from Yale University in 1904, Harvard University in 1908, and Williams College in 1908. Immediately after graduating in 1879 he entered the instructional force of the University of Wisconsin and has remained on its staff in various positions to the present time. In the University he has been instructor in metallurgy, 1886-88; professor of mineralogy and petrology, 1888-90; professor of Archaen and applied geology, 1890-92; professor of geology, 1892-1903; and he was elected President of the University in 1903. At the University of Chicago he was non-resident professor of structural and metamorphic geology from its foundation to 1903. He has held various positions on the United States Geological Survey from 1883 to the present time. Under this organization he was assistant geologist on the United States Geological Survey, 1883-88; geologist in charge of Lake Superior Division, 18881900; geologist in charge of pre-Cambrian and metamorphic geology, 19001908, and was appointed consulting geologist in 1909. For the State Geological and Natural History Survey he was consulting geologist from 1897 to 1903. Since 1903 he has been chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Survey. In 1908 was appointed a member of the National Conservation Commission and is chairman of the State Conservation Commission. He has been chairman of the State Forestry Commission since 1905. He was president of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, 1893-1896; and vice president of Section E of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1901. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences; the Washington Academy of Science; the Geological Society of America; the American Institute of Mining Engi neers; the Scientific Society of Christiana, Norway, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, the Boston Society of Natural History. American Philosophine Society, American Academy of Political and Social Science. He has been editor (for structural geology) of the Journal of Geology since 1892. He has made many contributions to geological literature, of which the more important the Archaen and Algonkian, the Penokee Iron-bearing Series of Michigan and Wisconsin (with R. D. Irving), Principles of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology, the Marquette Iron-bearing District of Michigan (with W. S. Bayley), the Iron Ores of the Lake Superior region. President Van Hise has also given various addresses upon educational subjects.

are:

FREDERICK EUGENE TURNEAURE, C. E., Dr. Eng., Dean of the College of Mechanics and Engineering. Born in Stephenson county, Illinois, in 1866. Received a country school education and attended the Freeport, Ill., high school for a short time. Entered Cornell University in 1885, and graduated

from Civil Enginering Course in 1889. From 1889 to 1900 he was engaged in railroad engineering in Virginia and Kentucky. From 1890 to 1892 he was instructor in Civil Engineering at Washington University, St. Louis, and in 1892 was appointed to the chair of Bridge and Sanitary Engineering of the University of Wisconsin. He was also city engineer of Madison from 1900 to 1902, and has been engaged as consulting engineer on municipal work. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, of the Western Society of Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published as joint author, Modern Framed Structures, 183; Public Water Supplies, 1901 and Principles of Reinforced Concrete Construction, 1907; besides contributions to the proceedings of various societies, and to technical journals.

H. L. RUSSELL, Dean of the college of Agriculture was born in Poynette, Columbia county, Wisconsin, March 12, 1866. Entered University of Wisconsin, 1884, graduating in 1888. Was fellow in Biology in the University from 1888 to 1890, specializing in bacteriology. Studied in Europe in Koch's Laboratory, University of Berlin, Zoological Station at Naples, The Pasteur Institute in Paris. Given the degree of Ph. D. from John Hopkins' University, 1892. Continued bacteriological studies at the Woods Holl Biological Station, Mass. Fellow in Bacteriology, University of Chicago, 1892-93. Called to the University of Wisconsin in 1893 as assistant professor of bacteriology and bacteriologist in the Experiment Station. Elected professor of bacteriology 1896. This was a new line of work inaugurated by Dean Henry, the first college to take up consideration of agricultural problems from the bacteriological point of view. Most of his work since coming here at the Agricultural College has been along dairy and animal disease lines, espcially in connection with investigations concerning the ripening of cheese and bovine tuberculosis. Dean College of Agriculture and director Agricultural Experiment station, 1907.

EDWARD ASAHEL BIRGE, Ph. D., Sc. D., Dean of the College of Letters and Science, was born Sept. 7, 1851, at Troy, N. Y.; graduated from Williams College in 1873, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and received the degree of Master of Arts in 1876; studied zoology in the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass., until December 1875; received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1878; of Doctor of Science (honorary) from the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1897; and of Doctor of Laws from Williams College in 1903; studied histology and physiology in the University of Leipsic, Germany, during the college year 1880-1; elected instructor in natural history at the University of Wisconsin in 1875; professor of zoology in 1879; in 1891 he received the additional office of dean of the College of Letters and Science and served as acting president 1900-3. He is secretary of the Wisconsin Commissioners of Fisheries, superintendent of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, member of the Wisconsin Forestry, State Park and Conservation Boards, president of the Madison Public Library. His papers are on scientific subjects, mainly in the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.

HARRY SANGER RICHARDS, Dean of the College of Law. Born in Os. ceola, Clarke county, Iowa, November 20, 1868. Attended the public schools; graduated from the Academic Department of Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, in 1883; graduated from the College of Liberal Arts of the State University of Iowa, in 1892, with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy; graduated from the Law School of Harvard University in 1895, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws: served a clerk in the office of Horatio D. Wood, St. Louis, Mo., during the year 1896; located for the practice of law at Ottumwa, Iowa, in 1897; was elected Professor of Law in the Law Department of the State University of Iowa in 1898; was elected Dean of the College of Law, University of Wisconsin, in June, Was granted the degree of Doctor of Laws by the State University of

1903.

Iowa in June 1904. Member of Phi Beta Kappa, legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, honorary legal fraternity Theta Kappa Nu; member of American Bar Association, Wisconsin Bar Association; member of Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools, 1903-06; member from Wisconsin General Council, American Bar Association, 1904-06; chairman of section on Legal Education, American Bar Association, 1908-09; author of various papers dealing with legal education read before the Association of American Law Schools and American Bar Association.

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY.

JOHN BARBER PARKINSON, A. M., Vice-President of the University, professor of Constitutional and International Law, was born at Edwardsville, Madison county, Ill., April 11, 1834; graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1860; was an instructor in the University, 1861-62; county superintendent of La Fayette county, 1862-64; regent of the University, 1866-67; was appointed to a full professorship-the first from the alumni-in 1867; held the chair of Mathematics, 1867-72; of Civil Polity and Constitutional Law, 187274; was in journalism and president of the Wisconsin State Board of Centennial Managers, 1874-76: professor of Civil Polity and Political Economy, 187623; was appointed professor of Constitutional and International Law in 1893; was made Emeritus professor of Constitutional and International Law in 1906, and has been vice-president of the University since 1885. He has thus been connected with the University in some capacity, for forty-five years. Several of his addresses, read before the State Agricultural Society, the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, and other societies, have been published; courses of lectures on International Law, English and American Constitutional Law and Political Economy have been prepared, but not yet published.