Two appointments have been made to the University faculty, Provost Buck announced last night. The new professors are Homer Jakobson, Thomas G. Massaryk Professor of Czechoslovak Studies at Columbia University, who will become Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Hugh M. Raup. Director of the Harvard Forest, who will be Professor of Botany.
Professor Jakobson, who will teach in the field of Slavic philology and advanced literature, holds degrees from the Universities of Moscow and Prague. He is the author of over 200 books and articles on Russian, Czech and Slovak language, literature, and folklore.
Raup, a staff member of Harvard's Gray Herbarium since 1929, became Forest Director in 1946. He has led several botanical expeditions to Alaska, and is known for his work on the botany of Canada.
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