At its meeting last Monday, the Corporation accepted the resignation of George Lincoln Goodale, Fisher Professor of Natural History and director of the Botanic Garden, to take effect September 1, 1909.
Professor Goodale was graduated from Amherst in 1860. Before assuming his duties at Harvard in 1872, he filled professorships at Bowdoin and at the Medical School of Maine. After holding different lectureships in the University from 1872 to 1878, he was appointed professor of Botany. He has been Fisher Professor of Natural History since 1888 and director of the Botanic Garden sine 1879. Besides the honorary degree of A. M. from Amherst and the degree of M. D. from Harvard and from Bowdoin. Professor Goodale has received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Amherst, Bowdoin, and Princeton.
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