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death of Dr. Gray, few, if any, have made more lasting or more 

 valuable contributions to the growth of botany as a whole or the 

 development of a particular branch of the general science than 

 Professor Charles R. Barnes of the University of Chicago. 

 The Plant World wishes to add to the many notices 

 that have appeared in the various journals its tribute 

 of sincere appreciation of the man and his work and sorrow for 

 his loss. The words of his life-long colleague. Professor Coulter, 

 seem to express most fittingly what all must feel. "His loss to 

 his department, his university, and his science, and in all he 

 stood for to his colleagues, and to his students, is simply irrepar- 

 able. We can face the future with confidence, for a department 

 outlives its men, but a resource that may be placed in amount 

 but never in kind, has now become a memory." 



The death of Professor Barnes has necessitated a certain 

 amount of readjustment in the department of which he was the 

 head and which he had brought to so high a degree of eflficiency. 

 It is understood that Dr. Crocker will continue to direct the work 

 which he has had in charge for a number of years. Mr. Lee I. 

 Knight has been associated with him, and the study of plant 

 pathology from the standpoint of physiology has been provided 

 for by adding to the staff Dr. Heinrich Hasselbring, formerly of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



