The New International Encyclopædia/Arthur, Joseph Charles

ARTHUR, Joseph Charles (1850—). An American botanist. He was born at Lowville, N. Y., studied at the Iowa Agricultural College and Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Bonn universities, and from 1884 to 1887 was botanist to the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. He was appointed professor of vegetable physiology and pathology at Purdue University and botanist of the Indiana Experiment Station in 1887. With Dr. Coulter and Dr. Barnes he edited a Handbook of Plant Dissection (1886). He is an editor of the Botanical Gazette, and has published numerous papers, including History and Biology of Pear-blight.