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died on June 4, 191 1, at the age of sixty-two. By ancestry and 

 place of birth a New Knglander, a graduate and for twenty 

 years a member of the botanical staff of Cornell University, a 

 student of De Bary's for a time in Strassburg,he brought to 

 California the mature powers of an enthusiastic student and 

 sympathetic lover of nature, the ripe scholarship and the win- 

 ning personality of the inspiring teacher. At home in the lab- 

 oratory, he was still more strikingly the gracious host when he was 

 with students and other friends out of doors, in the fields and 

 woods and mountain forests. 



He knew the forests of middle California as no one else; 

 his acquaintance was with individual trees, as his collection 

 of tree portraits testifies. And his studies of their geographic- 

 al distribution, following and amplifying the earlier studies 

 of Asa Gray and others, gave his knowledge a degree of accuracy 

 and detail, as well as breadth, which was very prec'ous. It 

 is to be hoped that his notes and other manuscripts are in such 

 condition that his associates and successor can give them to 

 the world. 



Professor Dudley's nature was so sensitive, his percep- 

 tions so fine, and his ideals so high, that he could but rarely 

 bring himself to publish what he knew. He wished always to 

 add to and improve what he had learned and written. Thus 

 the botanical world had little opportunity to know his accom- 

 plishments and achievements. 



Besides the young men and women whose lives he has en- 

 riched, and llic Forest .Service wjiich he long assisted in various 

 ways, he contribute:! to the great gift to California and the 

 Nation whi::h the State and National Forests of California 

 constitute. The "Bi; Basin Park,' the property of the state, 

 will preserve to all time a part of tiic natural redwood forest of 

 the Santa Cruz Mountains. Profesi:)r Dudley assisted in secur- 

 ing and preserving as a state park tliis part of the virgin forest 

 of Seju^ia sempervireri''-. It wa=; his interest too which stim- 

 ulated and directed the federal authorities in the selection of 

 others of the mountain forests of California as national forests. 



nf courtly manner, ctiltivated as well as educated, of ripe 

 scholarship and rich in the knowledge of nature, he was a love- 

 able and elevating associate, an inspiring teacher, a devoted 



