76 Rhodora [ FEBRUARY 
On January 27th, 1903, Dr. Lorin Low Dame died after brief 
illness at his home in Medford, Massachusetts, in his sixty-fifth year. 
An experienced and talented educator, Dr. Dame has for many years 
possessed the respect and esteem of a wide acquaintance. Among 
botanists he was well known for the admirable Flora of Middlesex 
County, Massachusetts, of which he was the senior editor, and for two 
valuable works upon the trees of New England. Dr. Dame was one 
of the founders of the New England Botanical Club, and through the 
seven years of its existence has been one of its most devoted members. 
Vol. 5, no. 1, including pages 1 to go and plates 41 to 43, was issued January 31, 
1903. 
