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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, 1911 On Wednesday evening, March 6, 1912, Mason Blanchard Thomas, Professor of Botany at Wabash College and Dean of the Faculty, died at his home in Crawfordsville of an acute attack of pleurisy. Mason B. Thomas was born at New Woodstock, N. Y., December 16, 1866. He prepared for college at Cazenovia Academy and entered the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University in the fall of 1886. He was graduated with the degree of B. S. In 1890 and was awarded a graduate fellowship in biology at Cornell for the following year. In 1891 he came to Wabash College as Professor of Biology, and after 1895, when the department was divided, he gave his whole time to the study and teach ing of Botany. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.