JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XIX May, 1918 No. 221 
JOHN ADOLPH SHAFER 
r. John Adolph Shafer, one of our most efficient botanical 
as died in a hospital near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 
after a long illness, on February Ist, 1918, in the fifty-fifth 
year of his age 
I first came to know him during a meeting of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science held at Pittsburgh 
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correspondence with him, and he was diligent in accumulating 
specimens for the Carnegie Museum. 
pon my invitation, he spent the month of September, 1902, 
at the New York Botanical Garden, engaged in selecting dupli- 
cates from our collections for his institution. During March, 
this work until early in May of that year. This was the first of 
his numerous trips to the West Indies; he spent part of that 
su with me in New York, engaged in the study of these 
ee ae At that time he indicated his desire of becoming 
associated with the Garden, and in January, 1904, it was made 
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a post which he held for over five years, and during that period 
Jour. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 95-99. 
[Journal for April, 1918 (191: 69-96 was issued April 30, 1918.] 
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