VOLUME XLIX NUMBER 5 
BOTANICAL GsAZETIE 
MAY 19r0 
CHARLES REID BARNES 
(WITH PORTRAIT) 
CHARLES REID BarNEs was born at Madison, Indiana, September 
7, 1858, and died at Chicago, from an accidental fall, February 24, 
1910. He graduated at Hanover College in 1877, and afterward 
studied at Harvard University, where he secured the friendship of 
Professor Asa Gray. After teaching in the public schools for a few 
years, he became professor of botany at Purdue University in 1882. 
In 1887 he was called to the University of Wisconsin, and for eleven 
years developed and maintained a vigorous department of botany 
in that growing institution. In 1898 he became professor of plant 
physiology at the University of Chicago, and completed twenty- 
eight years as a university professor. At Hanover College he met 
Professor CouLTER as his instructor in botany, and from that time 
they became intimately associated, first as joint editors of the Borant- 
CAL GAZETTE, and later as colleagues in the same university. 
He was always active in scientific societies, and the esteem in 
which he was held by his colleagues is indicated by the positions he 
held. He became a member of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science in 1884 and a fellow in 1885; was secretary 
of the botanical section in 1894, secretary of the council in 1895, 
general secretary in 1896, and vice-president (chairman) of the 
botanical section in 1898, giving his retirihg- address at Columbus 
in 1899 on “The progress and problems of plant physiology.” He 
was secretary of the Botanical Society of America from its organiza- 
tion in 1894 to 1898, and became its president in 1903, giving his 
retiring address at Philadelphia in 1904 on “The theory of respira- 
tion.” In 1905 he was a delegate from the botanical section of the 
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