WILLIAM RUSSEL DUDLEY* 

 By PRESIDENT DAVID STARR JORDAN 



THE fact that the writer has been intimately associated with Professor 

 Dudley since the day he entered the freshman class at Cornell 

 University, in September, 1870, will perhaps excuse the personal 

 element in this little sketch. 



The word '"instructor" as a technical term, describing a minor assistant 

 to a professor, had just then been invented, and the present writer had 

 just been appointed "instructor in botany" under Professor Albert N. 

 Prentiss. 



One day Professor Henry T. Eddy, now of Minnesota, brought to me 

 a tall, well-built, handsome and refined young man, older and more mature 

 than most freshmen, and with more serious and definite purposes. Young 

 Dudley had an intense delight in outdoor things and especially in flowers 

 and birds. He wanted to be a botanist, and had turned from old Yale, 

 to which as a descendant of Chittendens, Griswolds and Dudleys he would 

 naturally have gone, to new Cornell, because Cornell offered special ad- 

 vantages in science. For the rest of my stay at Cornell, Dudley was my 

 roommate, living in a cottage on the hill, built by students and termed 

 "University Grove." In this cottage was established the boarding-club, 

 known later and appropriately as "The Struggle for Existence," and in 

 later and more economical times as the "Strug." 



In time he was made botanical collector, and this congenial work he 

 kept up until he became my successor as instructor in botany. In college 

 Dudley was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, and took an active 

 part in holding this society to the high ideals (AiKtua yiroOrjKr)} on which 

 it was originally based. He was also a charter member in the honorary 

 scientific society of Sigma Xi (STrouSuv Hw<ov). 



From 1872 to 1876 he was instructor in botany at Cornell, his eminent 

 knowledge of the eastern flora overbalancing the fact that at first, he had not 

 yet received a degree. From 1876 to 1892 he was assistant professor of 

 botany at Cornell, with a year's absence in 1880, in which he served as 

 acting professor of biology in the University of Indiana, in the absence 

 of the present writer, who then held that chair. 



In 1892, Professor Dudley became professor of systematic botany at 

 Stanford University, which position he held until, in January, 1911, failing 



* Science, N. S., Vol. XXXIV, 142-145, August 4, 1911. 



