BYRON DAVID HALSTED 
Professor Halsted died at his home in New Brunswick, New 
Jersey, on August 28, 1918, after a protracted illness. He had 
occupied the Chair of Botany in Rutgers College for fae thirty 
years and had previously been professor in the Iowa State Uni- 
versity. 
Hroleecr _ has served as a member of the Advisory 
Board of orth American Flora,” published by the New York 
Botanical in since the commencement of that work in 1905, 
and during the several years preceding, while it was in the 
Science and of the Botanical Society of America, edited the 
American Agriculturist for a period, and has also been one of the 
aa of the Torrey Botanical Club. 
a highly successful and greatly beloved teacher and 
ee he of renown. is most important publications have 
been in the fields of agricultural botany and plant diseases, and 
they include over 300 titles. Hislossis a deep personal bereave- 
ent to his many friends and professional associates 
N. L. Britron 
