12 DUDLEY MEMORIAL VOLUME 



Professor Dudley very early became interested in the problem of plant 

 distribution. The region about Ithaca is a peculiarly interesting one botani- 

 cally, offering an unusual variety of conditions with a correspondingly 

 varied and interesting flora. Dudley soon became intimately acquainted 

 with the flora of this whole region and the results of his studies were 

 later published under the name "The Cayuga Flora." This was soon sup- 

 plemented by a second similar work on "The Lackawanna and Wyoming 

 Flora." While at Cornell, Professor Dudley also published in collaboration 

 with Professor M. B. Thomas a "Manual of Histology." He also published 

 a number of other shorter papers dealing mainly with the flora of the 

 same region. 



During the latter part of his stay at Cornell Professor Dudley had 

 charge of the work on the lower plants, especially the fungi, to which he 

 devoted much attention. In connection with this work upon the fungi 

 Professor Dudley made a trip to Europe in 1887, and it was upon this 

 trip that I had the first opportunity of making his acquaintance. I was 

 myself at the time a student at the University of Berlin. 



My first meeting with Professor Dudley was at Strasburg, where he 

 had gone to study under the famous botanist, De Bary. Somewhat later 

 Professor Dudley went to Berlin, where I was a student, and I had an 

 opportunity of renewing the acquaintance so pleasantly begun at Strasburg. 

 It is seldom that I have had the good fortune to meet a man who has 

 made upon me a deeper impression. The extraordinarily fine quality of 

 Professor Dudley's personality it is not necessary to describe to those who 

 knew him. In every sense of the word he was a gentleman of the finest 

 type. We little thought then that it was not going to be many years before 

 we should be colleagues in a new university in far-away California, for to 

 us then California seemed very far away indeed. 



Just twenty years ago a little band of pioneers, to which I had the 

 great good fortune to belong, started our University on its career. Every- 

 thing looked most promising and we were all full of enthusiasm and hope 

 for the future. Two years later Mr. Stanford died, and the university 

 entered upon a period of anxiety and privation, which was only tided over 

 by the noble and self-sacrificing devotion of Mrs. Stanford. 



Professor Dudley was called to Stanford as professor of systematic 

 botany in 1892, but did not come to California until the fall of 1893, just 

 at the time when the outlook was most discouraging. He naturally had 

 expected to have all the necessary equipment for establishing his depart- 

 ment, and of course nobody could have foreseen the unfortunate condition 

 of things which prevailed at the time he took up his duties in the autumn 



