Memoranda 



THE BOSTON HERALD 



"MONDAY, JANriT.T gItt 7 " 



RIDDLE— In Cambridge, Jan 16, after a. 



lone illness, Lincoln Ware Riddle, son of 

 > Charles W. and Mary B. Biddle. In his 



41et year. Funeral services at Appleton 



Chapel, Tuesday, Jan IS, at 2:30. Burial 



private. 



MEMBER OE HARVARD EACUl/TY 



Lincoln Ware Biddle Wm ITofessor of 

 Cryntogamic Botany, Following Thir- 

 teen Years as Professor at Wellesley 



College 



Lincoln Ware Riddle, who died on 

 Sunday at his home, 123 Walker street, 

 Cambridge, after an Illness of six 

 months, was born in Jamaica Plain on 

 Oct. 1", 1S80, and was tho son of Charles 

 W. and Mary B. Riddle. He fitted for 

 college at the Roxbury Latin School and 

 was graduated from Harvard in 1002. 

 In 1900 he received from Harvard a 

 Ph. D. degree in biology, also, in that 

 year, he was married to Gertrude H. 

 Paine of Orange, N. J. Mr. Riddle had 

 been professor of botany and bacteriol- 

 ogy at Wellesley College for thirteen 

 years, when he was called, in 1910. to 

 Harvard as professor of cryptogamic bot- 

 any. Professor Riddle la survived by 

 his wife and three children; also by his 

 parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Riddle, 

 and one sister. Miss Priscilla Riddle, of 

 Jamaica Plain. 



