14 DUDLEY MEMORIAL VOLUME 



forests of the eastern states, and are now threatening the great forests of 

 the Pacific Coast. An intimate friend of Gifford Pinchot, who has been 

 an effective champion of the rights of all the people in our splendid forests, 

 which have, been so wantonly devastated, he always stood for the most 

 enlightened views of forest conservation. The state has never had a more 

 devoted advocate of sound and modern methods in forestry than Professor 

 Dudley. 



His teaching work in the university, especially in his later years, was 

 to a great extent strongly influenced by his interest in forestry problems, 

 and the students who were intending to devote themselves to forestry as a 

 profession found in his teaching a sound preparation for their future vocation. 



Professor Dudley's interest in forestry was evinced in a very practical 

 way through his participation in the movement to reserve as a state park 

 the fine body of redwood timber in the Santa Cruz Mountains known as 

 the Big Basin. Largely through his instrumentality this magnificent body 

 of virgin redwood forest was bought by the State as a permanent public 

 park. Until compelled by illness to give up his position, he served as 

 one of the commissioners of the park, in which to the last he took the 

 keenest interest. 



For many years also Professor Dudley was an active and interested 

 member of the Sierra Club, and accompanied the club in its outings in the 

 Sierras on several occasions. Those who were fortunate enough to be 

 members of the party and thus came to know Professor Dudley in his 

 most congenial surroundings, will always remember with the keenest pleasure 

 their associations with him on those excursions. 



As a teacher Professor Dudley was devoted to the welfare of his 

 students, who will bear witness to his constant interest in their work and 

 the unfailing assistance always rendered them. Many students both at 

 Cornell and Stanford came under his influence, and the long roll of those 

 who have achieved success in their work after leaving college bears witness 

 to the success of his labors as a teacher. At Cornell, Professor Atkinson, 

 the present head of the department of botany, was one of his students. 

 Professor Trelease, the distinguished director of the Missouri Botanical 

 Gardens, which position he recently resigned, was also a student at Cornell ; 

 and Dr. Coville, head of the National Herbarium at Washington, also 

 claims Professor Dudley as his teacher. Many others, successful both as 

 teachers and investigators), look back with pleasure and gratitude to their 

 student days in his laboratory. On our own faculty Professor Abrams and 

 Mr. McMurphy were both associated with him as students and colleagues, 

 and are carrying on the work which he so well began. 



