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some two years spent in the west and south. He practiced law 

 actively up to September, 1893, at which time he was appointed 

 to the United States customs, with which he continued until 

 his death. 



His marriage to Miss Millie Burns took place on August 4, 

 1897, and he is survived by her. 



Mr, Dodge's interest in botany began about 1875. Before 

 1888, he had very few specimens. In 1893, he became dissatisfied 

 with his collection and "threw most everything out of the back 

 window and began over again." He was encouraged to proceed 

 in his work first by the late Professor C. F. Wheeler, who im- 

 pressed on him the great desirability of systematic collecting, and 

 later by Professor C. K. Davis and Dr. A. G. Ruthven, of the 

 Museum of Zoology at Ann Arbor. At first, he indulged in 

 exchanging specimens and building up a general herbarium, but 

 after a time came to the conclusion that he could do more ef- 

 fective work by confining himself to Michigan and adjacent 

 Ontario. This he proceeded to do, at first confining his efforts 

 largely to St. Clair County, Michigan, and Lambton County, 

 Ontario. His love of botany increased with advancing years 

 and it was so great that at times he would regularly work far into 

 the night every other night in order that he might have time the 

 next day for his botanical labors. He specialized more and more 

 in the higher plants of Michigan and in this field secured a very 

 extensive and accurate knowledge and by far the widest field 

 experience. 



Of later years, he extended his field of operations and made 

 numerous collecting trips to the Northern Peninsula of Michigan, 

 and took great pleasure in the numerous interesting plants he 

 found there. Visits to Chippewa, Luce, Alger and Schoolcraft 

 counties were followed by visits further west to Marquette and 

 Houghton counties, and all resulted in interesting and valuable 

 collections. More lately, too, he made trips to Berrien County in 

 the extreme southwestern part of the State, and added materially 

 to the knowledge of the Michigan flora in these trips. New and 

 rare plants always were a source of great pleasure to him. Find- 

 ing Streptopus longipes in great abundance* in northern Michigan; 



