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sympathetic support of fundamental research.20 Russell always fostered
productive scholarship and chose men primarily with that point upper-
most. We can forgive some of his mandatory self-assurance in view of
the results accomplished. By 1 9 1 Russell listed eight new departments
including genetics, plant pathology, and agricultural bacteriology with
competent investigators in each field.
  A cheerful comrade when climbing over the bluffs of the Wisconsin
River, Russell was at heart a naturalist, a lover of the out-of-doors, and
a confirmed traveler. Get away from the job periodically was his plea.
The last few years while Russell was dean, he spent much effort on the
organization of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, an insti-
tution that developed from the social conscience of the scientist, Harry
Steenbock, and the initiative of Russell and many others. In 1930 when
he resigned from the deanship, Russell became director of this Founda-
tion that has meant so much to the University of Wisconsin and its
possibilities in productive scholarship; it has served as a model for
other institutions.
  In 1907 President Van Hise obtained legislative approval and funds
for the beginning of the long-hoped-for medical school. Charles R.
Bardeen, professor of anatomy, was made dean. In the upbuilding of a
productive faculty for the first two years of medicine, Mazyck P.
Ravenel, who had done yeoman service in Pennsylvania confirming the
findings of Theobald Smith that the bovine and human tubercle are dif-
ferent types with different pathogenicity, was brought to Wisconsin.
He took over the teaching of medical bacteriology as well as the direc-
torship of the State Laboratory of Hygiene made vacant by the appoint-
ment of Russell as dean of the College of Agriculture.
  In 1914 a decision to withdraw bacteriology altogether from the
College of Letters and Science was reached, and the responsibilities
were placed in the colleges where the major applications existed. E. G.
Hastings was continued in efficient charge of bacteriology in the Col-
lege of Agriculture; Ravenel went to take over bacteriology in the
University of Missouri, leaving W. D. Stovall in charge of the State
Laboratory of Hygiene; Paul F. Clark was brought from the Rocke-
feller Institute to take over medical bacteriology, now definitely placed
in the medical school. This organization continued from that date
throughout and beyond the period of our survey. Events and persons
are much too close for further comment.21


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