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out having had a conventional university traininj< in his chosen 

 field. Moreover, at the time he received his appointment at the 

 University of California, he was already in the beginning of 

 middle life, and a training similar to that of the younger men who 

 were elsewhere founding departments of botany in our univer- 

 sities and colleges had not been available to him. Although he 

 held advanced views in taxonomy, and was rapidly acquiring 

 the profound knowledge of the history of botany for which he 

 was famous in later years, he was not trained in the newer phases 

 of the science which were just being introduced, as it were, from 

 Germany. 



As we should expect, therefore, the department of botany 

 which he founded at Berkeley bore an old-fashioned stamp. As 

 late as the academic year i892-'93 the courses offered were the 

 introductory course in "vegetable structure and morphology," 

 in which he was associated with Marshall A. Howe, now of New 

 York. Greene offered three other courses, entitled "Systematic 

 and Economic Botany," "Advanced Systematic Botany," and 

 "Medical Botany." His associate, Howe, gave "Cryptogamic 

 Botany." 



Greene ranked as instructor during only one adacemic year, 

 i885-'86. The following year he was made assistant professor. 

 Five years later he became associate professor, and the year 

 following he was advanced to a full professorship. In all, he 

 served ten years at Berkeley, during which time he built up a 

 strong department and was held in high esteem for his scholarly- 

 attainments. In the report of the president of the University 

 for i89i-'93 we find: "In the department of botany much 

 good work has been done with the students and still more in 

 classification and correspondence. In 1892, at the World's 

 Congress of Botanists held in Genoa, Professor Greene was 

 named as a member of the International Committee on Botanical 

 Nomenclature, one of three members from the United States. 

 He w^as president of the Botanical Congress held in connection 

 with our Columbian Exposition at Madison, Wisconsin." 



In the university librarian's report for the same year we find 

 a lament which cannot fail to bring a smile to those who know 



