WHEELER, WILLIAM MORTON Ameri can zoologist, was born at Milwaukee March 19, 1865. He gradu ated from the German-American Normal College in 1884; re ceived the Ph.D. degree, 1892, from Clark University; Sc.D. from the University of Chicago, 1916. He was assistant professor of em bryology, University of Chicago, 1896-99; professor of zoology, University of Texas, 1899-1903 ; curator of invertebrate zoology, American Museum of Natural History, 1903-08. In 1908 he was made professor of economic entomology and dean of Bussey, and in 1926 professor of entomology, at Harvard. He was
a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was asso ciate editor of the Biological Bulletin, Journal of Morphology and of the Journal of Animal Behaviour. His publications in clude: Ants, Their Structure, Development and Behaviour ( 91 0) ; Social Life Among the Insects (1923 ) ; Foibles of Insects and Men (1928), and monographs on numerous species of ants. He also translated and annotated The Natural History of Ants, from the French of Rene Antoine F. de Reaumur (1926).