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his administrative talent, explains the fact that he remained in the chair 
of botany and did not stay in the executive offices. 
As a teacher he was inspiring and beloved; as head of an important 
department, he possessed a breadth far beyond his own scientific activity; 
acting as regent, he won and held esteem as a man of unselfishness, fair- 
ness, and firmness. He is mourned as few men in his walk of life are 
mourned; the University pays him the highest tribute of respect and 
affection; and that the younger men of his immediate profession esteemed 
him as of their own and not of a by-gone day and generation is shown by 
a banquet in his honor given by the horticultural society of his State only 
a few months ago, and by his election at about the same time to the 
presidency of the National Society of Bacteriologists, and the chairman- 
ship of the botanical section of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science. His passing leaves a void.—WILLIAM TRELEASE, 
University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. 
