Albert E. Longley, born in Paradise, Nova Scotia, Canada, March 12,1883, graduated from Acadia in 1920, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1923. He became a cytologist and botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, at Washington, in 1923 and held that position until his retirement. He first worked on the cytology of strawberries and rubus and then became a specialist on the morphology of corn chromosomes and spent most of his years of service at the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, Calif. Since his retirement he has lived at Columbia, Missouri.