GAGER, CHARLES STUART (1872— ), American botanist, was born on Dec. 23, 1872, at Norwich, N.Y., and educated at Syracuse (A.B., 1895) and Cornell (Ph.D., 1902) universities. He was professor of biological sciences and physi ography at New York State Normal college, 1897-1905; director of laboratories, New York Botanical Garden, 1906-08; and pro fessor of botany at the University of Missouri, 1908-1o. In 1910 he became director of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and in this position rose rapidly to a position of leadership in the field of botanical education and administration in the United States. Since 1912 he has edited the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record. From 1918 to 1925 he was a member of the editorial board of Botanical Abstracts. He became business manager of American Journal of Botany in 1914, also of Ecology in 1920, and of Genetics in 1922.
Besides numerous papers and addresses in scientific and educational journals he has published Errors in Science Teaching (i got) ; Effects of the Rays of Radium on Plants (1908) ; Fundamentals of Botany (1g16) ; Heredity and Evolution of Plants (1920) ; The Relation between Science and Theology (1925) ; General Botany with Special Reference to its Economic Aspects (1926).