388 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [NOVEMBER 
He was born in Weymouth, Mass., August 5, 1861, and received his early 
education in the Weymouth schools. In 1886 he graduated from the Law- 
rence Scientific School of Harvard University, with the degree of S.B., and 
was at once appointed an assistant under Professor Goodale. In 1887 he 
became instructor in botany in Indiana University, and in 1888 was appointed 
botanist in the Agricultural Experiment Station at Amherst, Mass., where he 
remained until 1892. At Amherst he continued his studies under the direc- 
tion of Harvard, and in 1892 received from the university the degree of 
Sc.B. From that time until 1894 he studied under Professor Strasburger at 
Bonn, and returning to America was made a fellow in the Johns Hopkins 
University. In the next year he was appointed lecturer in botany in the same 
institution, and in the present year was advanced to an associate professor- 
ship. In June he visited Jamaica with a party of students, where he died 
August 17. 
Dr. Humphrey’s first published paper was on the development of the 
frond of the alga Agarum Turneri. At Amherst he naturally paid large atten- 
tion to the fungi, and the reports of the Experiment Station contained many of 
his contributions upon plant diseases. In Strasburger’s laboratory he directed 
his attention to cytological studies, and most of his later publications have 
been in this field. It was in the direction of cytological work that his botan- 
ical friends expected large things of him. For several years he has been the 
American correspondent of the Botanische Centralblatt, and also translated 
and edited Zimmermann’s Botanical Microtechnique. At the time of his 
death he was one of the associate editors of the reorganized American 
Naturalist. 
