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JOURNAL OF 



THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 



Vol. 23. August. 1921. No. 272. 



LINCOLN WARE RIDDLE. 

 (Born in Jamaica Plain, October 17, 1880 

 Died in Cambridge, January 16, 1921.) 



Roland Thaxter. 



The death of Dr. Riddle, in the prime of life and with everything 

 to live for, will not only be mourned by the many friends to whom 

 his lovable nature and winning personality had endeared him; but 

 has also brought keen regret to those who have at heart the advance- 

 ment of tie less cultivated botanical fields to which he had turned 

 his attention. With the prospect of many years of productive activ- 

 ity before him, he had but just realized the height of his professional 

 ambition, through his Harvard appointment, which had brought 

 with it almost ideal conditions for the accomplishment of the work 

 which he wished to do. 



With reference to his early choice of a profession, it is somewhat 

 remarkable that this was made when, at the age of twelve, he was 

 a pupil at the Roxbury Latin School. Having occasion to use for 

 the first time certain botanical books, he became so interested in 

 their contents that he determined to devote his life to the study of 

 this subject — a purpose from which he is said never to have wavered 

 until his desire to become a professional botanist was an accomplished 

 fact. 



Graduating at Harvard in the class of 1902, he took the degree of 

 A. M. in ; 904 and of Ph. D. in 1906. In June of this year he was 

 married to Miss Gertrude Hollister Paine and in the autumn they 

 made ihei~ home in Wellesley, where he had been appointed Instruc- 



