18703 William Russell Dudley 



Dudley, a devoted lover of flowers and possessed A poet- 

 of fine literary taste and ability, was also one of 

 the noblest and purest youths 1 have ever known. 

 His unfailing courtesy and absolute sense of justice 

 endeared him to all. Our mutual friendship was 

 lasting and intimate. During my instructorship he 

 gathered the plants for class use, and together we 

 roamed over all the hills and to all the waterfalls 

 within thirty miles of Ithaca, on both Cayuga and 

 Seneca lakes. A list of the plants of the lake region, 

 begun by me, was afterward completed and published 

 by him. Upon my graduation in 1872 he took my 

 place, afterward becoming assistant professor in the 

 department. In 1891 he was chosen as professor of 

 Systematic Botany in the newly organized Stanford 

 University, a position he held from 1892 to 1909. 

 He then retired on a Carnegie pension and died not 

 long after. 1 



His successful career as a teacher and student of 

 Botany and Forestry may have surprised his practical 

 father, who once expressed some skepticism as to 

 the value of a love of flowers. During a visit I paid 

 to the family home in the summer of 1871, 2 Mr. 

 Dudley said to me: 'There comes Willie across the 

 fields with his hands full of flowers. I wonder if he 

 can ever make anything out of that." 



Equall}^ closely associated with me was another 

 young botanist in my own class, Herbert Edson 

 Copeland from Monroe, Wisconsin. Copeiand was 



1 For further reference, see Chapter xvin, page 440. 



2 While in Connecticut at that time I had an opportunity of visiting Yale, 

 and also of going out to East Rock, where the three "Regicides," -judges 

 who condemned Charles I, GofF, Whalley, and Dixwell, lived for a time 

 in 1649 under a sheltering boulder. On this they carved the words, "Oposi- 

 tion to tyrants is obedience to God," using but one " p " for economy's sake. 



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