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Arthur, Joseph Charles

botanist, was born Jan. 11, 1850, in Lowville, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Iowa;. studied four years at the Iowa Agricultural college, taking the degree of B. S.; then attended Cornell, receiving the degree D. Sc.; and also studied at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the university of Bonn. He has been instructor in botany at the Iowa Agricultural college, the university of Wisconsin; and during 1884-87 was botanist to the Agricultural Experiment station at Geneva, N. Y. Since 1887 he has been professor of vegetable physiology and pathology in Purdue university.