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SCIENCE 



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tence— "The world will little note nor long 

 remember what we say here; but it can 

 never forget what they did here." 



Henry Crew 



NoETffWESTEEN UnITEBSITY 



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G3ARLE8 REID BARNES 

 Charles Eeid Barnes was born at Madison, 

 Ind., September 7, 1858, and died at Chicago, 

 Thursday, February 24, 1910. He attended 

 Hanover College, where he graduated with the 

 degree of A.B. in 1877, being the valedictorian 

 of his class. He was a student of Professor 

 Coulter, with whom he was henceforth inti- 

 mately associated professionally and otherwise 

 until his death. After graduation he studied 

 at Harvard University with Professor Gray, 

 who regarded him as a man of great promise. 

 In 1880 Barnes returned to Hanover College, 

 where he was given the degree A.M. That 

 same year he entered upon an instructorship 

 of natural science at the high school, Lafay- 

 ette, Ind., and later at Purdue University, 

 where he was promoted to a professorship in 

 1882. In 1885 his chair was changed from 

 natural science to botany and geology. In the 

 year 1885-6 Professor Barnes again spent 

 some time at Harvard University, and his 

 alma mater in 1886 conferred upon him the 

 degree Ph.D. In 1887 he was called to the 

 chair of botany at the University of "Wiscon- 

 sin, whence in 1898 he was called by the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago to occupy its newly created 

 chair of plant physiology, and here he re- 

 mained until his death. Prom 1883 until his 

 death he was associated with Professor Coul- 

 ter in the editorship of The Botanical Gazette. 

 Professor Barnes was always prominently 

 connected with the various scientific societies, 

 having become a member of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 in 1884 and a fellow in 1885. In 1890 he was 

 secretary of the Botanical Club of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, and was secretary of the Botanical So- 

 ciety of America from its inception at Brook- 

 lyn from 1894 until 1898. In 1894 he served as 

 secretary of Section G, in 1895 as secretary 

 of the council of the American Association 



for the Advancement of Science, and in 1896 

 as general secretary of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science. In 

 1898 he served as vice-president for Section 

 G, American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, giving his retiring address at Co- 

 lumbus in 1899 on " The Progress and Prob- 

 lems of Plant Physiology." In 1903 he served 

 as president of the Botanical Society of 

 America, giving his retiring address at Phila- 

 delphia in 1904 on " The Theory of Respira- 

 tion." In 1905 Professor Barnes served as a 

 delegate from Section G, American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, to the 

 international Botanical congress at Vienna. 

 He was also a member of the American So- 

 ciety of Naturalists and of the Botanists of 

 the Central States, and was in turn a mem- 

 ber of influence in the state scientific acade- 

 mies of Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois. 



As a botanical contributor Professor Barnes 

 began his career in a modest way in The Bo- 

 tanical Gazette in 1877, his first contributions, 

 entitled " Notes," having to do chiefly with 

 annotated lists of plants and additions to 

 county floras, quite in the manner of the time. 

 As early as 1879, however, some of his contri- 

 butions reveal a strong physiological bent, the 

 necessity of devices for accurate experimenta- 

 tion appealing to him then and ever afterward 

 with unusual force. From 1883, when he be- 

 came editorially connected with The Botanical 

 Gazette, he gave freely of his time and energy 

 to that journal. Much of the remarkable suc- 

 cess of this periodical is due to his editorial 

 genius; his trenchant English, and his insist- 

 ence on accurate statement and mechanical 

 perfection have for many years been reflected 

 on almost every page. Perhaps no botanical 

 reviewer has been so fearless as was Professor 

 Barnes; frank but friendly disapproval of all 

 that seemed bad, whether in fundamental 

 principles, in statement of fact, or in mechan- 

 ical alignment, was as natural to him as is 

 fulsome praise to most reviewers. Possibly 

 his greatest service to American botany was 

 in his many-sided work on The Botanical 

 Gazette. 



Professor Barnes was first generally known 



