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and of A. M. in 1893. In 1900 he received the degree of LL. D. from 
the University of New Brunswick. 
Professor Bailey devoted the best part of his life to botanical work 
in Brown University. During this period he confined himself to 
teaching and did not undertake any original scientific work. Vegeta- 
ble morphology and systematie botany were the subjects to which he 
devoted himself mainly, and students who have since risen to an 
honorable position in the botanical world were among his pupils. He 
also conducted classes outside of his college work, lectured frequently 
in Providence and elsewhere and contributed articles, botanical and 
otherwise, to many papers, notably The American Naturalist, Botani- 
cal Gazette, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, New England 
Journal of Education, Providence Journal, ete. Between 1881 and 
1899 Professor Bailey published ‘Botanical Collectors’ Hand-book’ 
(1881), ‘Botanical Note-book' (1894-1897), ‘Among Rhode Island 
Wild Flowers’ (1895 and 1896), ‘New England Wild Flowers’ (1895), 
and ‘ Botanizing’ (1899). His early experiences at West Point are 
vividly told in a brochure entitled ‘My Boyhood at West Point,’ 
published in 1891, and in a series of seventeen newspaper articles 
entitled ‘Recollections of West Point,’ published in 1900, by ‘The 
News of the Highlands,’ a local paper of the West Point region. 
By nature Bailey had a fine artistic temperament, and the pro- 
ductions from his pen, pencil and brush were always the delight of his 
friends. Beautiful colored drawings, illustrating plant structure, 
insect pollination and the like, were used in his class work and his 
lectures. His poetic nature is shown in the many verses that he wrote 
both for publication and for his friends, and in 1909 he published a 
collection of the principal ones. He made staunch friends, and was an 
unremitting and brilliant correspondent, his letters teeming with wit 
and showing hi$ wide knowledge of books. At class and society 
reunions Bailey was always expected to make a speech or read a poem, 
and these were full of pathos or wit as the occasion required. Yet 
through all this busy life he was a constant sufferer from spinal and 
other troubles, and the wonder is that he was enabled to carry on his 
work as he did. i 
He was ever fond of visiting West Point and many were the weeks 
that he spent there or in the immediate vicinity. He kept up his 
friendship with his early comrades and he wrote later, “My best 
friend, the only one admitted to my youthful penetralia, was Robert 
