JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XIII February, 1912, No, 146. 
CHARLES FINNEY COX. 
Charles Finney Cox, Treasurer of the New York Botanical 
Garden since 1899, an original member of the Corporation, and 
a member of the Board of Managers since the formation of that 
Board in 1895, died at his residence, No 5 Delavan Terrace, 
Yonkers, N. Y., on Wednesday, January 24; he was a little 
more than sixty-six years old, having been born on Staten Island, 
January 16, 1846. He studied at the College of the City of 
New York, and subsequently at Oberlin College, where he 
obtained the degree of A.B., and that institution, of which he 
was later a trustee, subsequently conferred upon him the honorary 
degree of A.M. Lafayette College awarded him the degree of 
LL.D. in tg1t. 
Mr. Cox had a keen appreciation of the progress of modern 
science, and for a man not professionally within the scientific 
ranks, an extraordinary knowledge of its details in many branches. 
He was a member of many learned societies and an officer of 
several from time to time, having been president of the New 
York Microscopical Society in 1888; of the Council of the Scien- 
tific Alliance of New York from 1891 to 1906; of the New York 
Academy of Sciences 1908 and 1909, treasurer of that body for 
several years previously, and again accepted the duties of that 
position in December, I9It. 
Microscopy was his favorite subject for personal investiga- 
tion, and his studies with the microscope of plant and animal 
life extended over many years; the instrument itself, and the 
history of its development and perfection were of great interest to 
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