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" ]\Ian\' of the subjects were illustrated by lantern slides from 

 original photographs, some of the latter also being taken from 

 negatives loaned by the American Museum of Natural History. 

 " The forthcoming volume of the Memoirs of the Club will 

 contain an extended acount of the floral features of the region 

 traversed." 



Adjournment followed. 



B. O. Dodge, 



Secretary 



NEWS ITEMS 



In the death of C. K. Dodge, of Port Huron, Michigan, sys- 

 tematic botany in this country has suffered a decided loss. 

 Mr. Dodge was one of the older school of botanists who believed 

 in making extensive collections of plants, and in giving an in- 

 tensive study to the flora of different regions. He is known 

 to many of the specialists in various groups because of his large 

 collections, which he was always ready to lend to those who 

 were making a study of any important family or genus. 



Charles Keene Dodge was born April 26, 1844, on a farm five 

 miles north of the city of Jackson, Michigan. He attended 

 country and city school, and in 1865 went to Ann Arbor, where 

 he attended the Union School for one year, entering the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan in the fall of 1866. He pursued a classical 

 course and graduated in 1870. He taught school in Rockland, 

 Michigan, and Hancock, Michigan, each two years, and then 

 studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1875. He settled 

 in Port Huron in that year and practiced law until 1893, when 

 he was appointed Deputy U. S. Customs Inspector, a position 

 which he held until his death. 



His greatest interest in botany dated back to shortly after the 

 completion of his university course, although he was interested 

 in plants even as a boy. One of the reasons that he gave up 

 the practice of law and accepted the Customs Office position 

 was that it would give him more time for the study of his be- 

 loved collections, so that we find that his botanical publications 

 mostly fall in the last twenty-five years of his life. 



