THE WASHINGTON POST: MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1926. 



DHJ,E,SllFFOi,liG, 

 E)[P[|)TJT1ST, DIES 



Pneumonia Causes Death of 

 Man With Varied Career 

 in Federal Service. 



RITES HERE TOMORROW 



Dr. AVilliam Edwin Safford, 6 0 

 years of age, one of the leading 

 botanists of the United States, and 

 an authority on tropical plants, 

 idled at his home, 3339 Mount 

 Pleasant street northwest, yester- 

 Iday afternoon. His death resulted 

 from pneumonia aggravated by 

 heart complications. 



He was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, 

 in December. 185 9. He was grad- 

 uated from the United States Naval 

 Academy in 18 8 0. He was ap- 

 pointed a commissioner to Peru and 

 Bolivia for the Chicago exposition 

 in 1891 and 1892. He served in the 

 Spanish-American war and in 1899 

 and 1900 was vice governor of 

 Guam. He left the navy and joined 

 the scientific staff of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture 

 in 1902. 



His last mission was as a dele- 

 gate to the first Pan Pacific con- 

 ference at Honolulu in 19 20. 



His works include "The Chamor- 

 ra Language of the Island of 

 Guam;" "Edible Plants and Tex- 

 tiles of Ancient America;" "Nar-j 

 cotics and Stimulants of the An-| 

 ciertt Americans;" "Natural Plis-! 

 tory of Paradise Key, Florida;" 

 and a great number of technical 

 papers. 



He was a member of the Liter- 

 ary Society of Washington, the Arts 

 club, and the Washington Society 

 of Fine Arts. He was a member of 

 the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences and its vice president 'in 

 1911 and 1915, a member of the 

 Botanical Society of Washington, 

 of which he was president in 19 21 

 and 1922, and a member of the Bo- 

 tanical Society of America, and of 

 the Cosmos club. 



Dr. Safford is survived by his 

 widow, a son, D. Wade Safford, and 

 a daughter, Bernice G. Safford, and 

 three sisters, Mrs. Edith P. Spof- 

 ford, of Washington; Mrs. Henry 

 Newman Staats, of Chillicothe, 



I Ohio, and Mrs. James Q. Rice,, of 



■New York. 



Funeral servicf's will be held at 

 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at 

 his late home. The body will be 

 taken to Chillicothe for burial. 



