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CHARLES BUDD ROBINSON 
Dr. Charles Budd Robinson, formerly a member of the scien- 
tific staff of the New York Botanical Garden, was murdered 
December 5, 1913, by a band of ignorant fanatics at a small 
Boetonese settlement on the island of Amboina in the Dutch 
East Indies, while engaged in botanical exploration for the 
Philippine Bureau of Science. The authorities in Amboina 
sudden, unexplained appearance alone, dressed in a strange garb 
and armed with a strange collecting knife. 
obinson was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, October 26, 
ae was educated at Dalhousie College, Cambridge University, 
Columbia University, and the New York Botanical Garden; and 
served the Garden as assistant curator from July, 1906, to Janu- 
ary, 1908, and from January to September, 1912. He was an 
enthusiastic botanist and contributed valuable papers on the 
flora of Nova Scotia, the Characeae of North America, and the 
seed-bearing plants of the Philippine Islands. It was with the 
hope of connecting certain elements of the Amboina flora with 
that of the Philippines that Dr. Robinson undertook the ex- 
plorations which led to his death. 
Resolved: That the scientific directors of the New York Botan- 
ical Garden deplore the death of Charles Budd Robinson, and 
appreciate the value of his services to botanical science 
Resolved: That the board of managers be requested to accept 
and invest a fund, sear by friends and associates, to be 
designated ‘The Charles Budd Robinson Memorial Fund,” the 
income to be meri at intervals, for aiding botanical ex- 
ploration 
Resolved: That the foregoing preamble and resolutions be 
entered on the minutes, and a copy sent to his bereaved family. 
Adopted by the Scientific Directors April 11, 191 
At the meeting of the Board of Managers held April 16, 1914, 
the foregoing request of the Scientific Directors was granted. 
N. L. Britton, 
Director-in-Chief. 
