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Rhodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 13. January, 1911. No. 145. 
DAVID PEARCE PENHALLOW. 
WALTER DEANE. 
(Read before the New England Botanical Club, December 2, 1910.) 
Ir is my sad duty to record once more the death of one of our 
number, a man who won marked distinction as a student of fossil 
plants, Professor David Pearce Penhallow, a non-resident member 
of The New England Botanical Club since November 6, 1896. For 
many years connected with McGill University in Montreal, Professor 
Penhallow has been considered by many rather as a Canadian than 
otherwise, but this was far from the truth. To the end he was a 
loyal citizen of the United States to which he returned regularly 
to cast his vote. 
Although unable to be present at our meetings except on rare occa- 
sions, he took a keen interest in all our proceedings, was a devoted 
reader of RHoDoRa, and we were fortunate in having an article from 
his pen appear in the September number of our journal for 1909. 
This article, ‘An Account of certain noteworthy features in the habi- 
tat of Rhodora,’ was suggested the previous summer by an investi- 
gation of a peat bog in process of development in Shelburne, New 
Hampshire, on whose borders grows the shrub Rhodora. 
Whoever was privileged to know Professor Penhallow as a warm 
friend, or to meet him for only a single time, was irresistibly drawn to 
him by his courteous manner, his fine figure, handsome face, gentle but 
firm voice, and the charm of his conversation. Hewas a man of ster- 
ling character, firm in his convictions of what was honest and upright 
and fearless in expressing them, and yet withal there was a gentleness 
in his nature and disposition that always won friends. His knowledge 
