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EDWARD LEE GREENE 

 (with portrait) 



In the passing away of Dr. Edward Lee Greene we have lost one 

 of our most eminent botanists. As a correspondent writes: "A gap is 

 thus made in the ranks of American botanists that can never be filled. 

 His investigations during his long period of activity have added greatly 

 to the knowledge of North American plants." His death occurred 

 in Providence Hospital, 

 Washington, D.C., Novem- 

 ber 10, 19 1 5, after a long 

 illness. He was born in 

 Hopkinton, Rhode Island, in 

 1843, and was therefore 

 seventy-two years old at the 

 time of his death. He 

 graduated from Albion 

 College, in Wisconsin, in 

 1866, and was educated for 

 the ministry, being for four- 

 teen years an Episcopal 

 clergyman. In 1885, how- 

 ever, he gave up his parish 

 and joined the Catholic 

 ^H^^^F church. From 1885 to 1895 



he tau 8 ht botany in the 

 University of California. 



Fr a »ipkoto i rraphbyRachrach,ir„ s hin S to,,,D.C. FrOm 1895 tO 1 9O4 he WaS 



professor of botany in the 

 Catholic University of America, at Washington, D.C.; and from 1904 

 until his death was associate in botany in the United States National 

 Museum. He served his country during the Civil War and was a 

 member of the Grand Army of the Republic. 



For many years he was simply a collector of plants, sending his 

 specimens to others to name or describe, although occasionally he sent 

 Botanical Gazette, vol. 61] [70 



