TRUE, Rodney Howard, American botanist and physiologist: b. Greenfield, Wis., 14 Oct. 1866. His education was secured at the University of Wisconsin and at Leipzig, where he took his Ph.D. degree (1895). He taught in the schools of Wisconsin, was made a lecturer in botany in Harvard in 1900-01, since which time he has been in charge of physiological investigations for the United States Department of Agriculture. His writings though voluminous are chiefly contributions to scientific journals.