CHARLES EDWIN BESSEY. 

 1845-1915. 



It is with bowed heads and saddened hearts that we announce 

 the death of Professor Doctor Charles Edwin Bessey. When 

 his long and immensely useful life came to its close, and when 

 his spirit was borne out among the twinkling stars of that chilly 

 February eve it was not alone the immediate family who felt 

 the shock of the great change ; it was not alone the botanical 

 world that had lost a powerful exponent, but the forester and 

 the forestry student had lost an important source of inspiration 

 and encouraging guidance. A friend tried true had left us. 



Dr. Bessey was always to be found "boosting" for the for- 

 estry movement in all of its numerous phases and ramifications. 

 His sympathy and enthusiasm was broad enough and specific 

 enough to reach from the President and Chief Forester of the 

 United States, comfortably seated in the enameled halls at Wash- 

 ington, out to the humblest and loneliest ranger riding his beat 

 over the most desolate places of desolation. Throughout his 

 eventful life he appropriated much of his boundless energy for 

 the forestry movement which began to take definite form during 

 his earlier scientific days. He enjoyed the most pleasant and 

 profitable acquaintance and cooperation with such men as Mor- 

 ton, Rothrock, Roth, Fernow, Cleveland, Pinchot and Roosevelt. 

 Truly these are names to conjure with in American forestry! 

 Out of such associations, embellished in copious measure with 

 his own gentleness, came much of his wisdom in the direction of 

 the thought and deeds of future foresters. With such company 

 as this he readily kept in touch with the progress of forestry in 



