Biographical Sketches:  H. L. RUSSEL


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial
Statistics 1907.

The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. University
Department Heads.

[Dean of the College of Agriculture] (p. 1180)

H. L. RUSSEL, 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 the
University of Biology 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 Hall Bacteriological 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. 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, especially in
connection with tuberculosis.