CHARLES MOHR 405 



In 1894 he was appointed an agent in the Division of Forestry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, and subsequently Forest Ex- 

 pert, a position which he held until his death. During this 

 period his forest studies included an investigation of the timber 

 pines of the Southern United States, which was published as 

 Bulletin 13 of the Bureau of Forestry, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture (1897). He personally selected and directed 

 in the field the collection of all the Southern commercial timbers 

 mechanically tested by the Department of Agriculture from 

 1892 to 1898. More recently he completed monographic studies 

 of the Red Cedar, White Cedar, Bald Cypress, and of the most 

 important commercial oaks of the Southern States. His mono- 

 graph on the Red Cedar was published as Bulletin 31 of the 

 Bureau of Forestry. The remaining monographs are to be 

 published as bulletins of the Bureau of Forestry. 



Through all his economic forest investigations Dr. Mohr 

 found time to complete the crowning botanical work of his life, 

 an exhaustive study of the flora of Alabama. This research 

 covered more than forty years, and was recently published both 

 by the State Geological Survey of Alabama and the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, under the title of "Plant 

 Life of Alabama." Fortunately Dr. Mohr was able to revise 

 the proof sheets of this volume, although he was denied the 

 satisfaction of seeing it in completed form before his death a 

 matter of great regret to him. 



In Dr. Mohr a highly scientific spirit was united with broad 

 and liberal thought. His genuine enthusiasm, his great pleasure 

 in rendering assistance to others, his untiring perseverance and 

 singleness of purpose, no less than his sincerity, kindliness and 

 modesty, impressed themselves upon all who knew him. 



In his home life Dr. Mohr showed the same affectionate dis- 

 position and unselfish devotion. He was married in 1852, and 

 passed the greater part of his subsequent life at Mobile, Ala- 

 bama ; but in March, 1900, he was obliged on account of failing 

 health to take up his residence at Asheville, North Carolina, 

 where he died on July 17, 1901, in his 77th year. He leaves a 

 devoted family consisting of a wife and several grown sons and 

 daughters. GEORGE B. SUDWORTH. 



