Ther MoN. JUNE 11, 192:! Woa 



drMwgh, 

 botanist, dies 



Field Museum Curator 

 for Twenty Years. 



Dr. Charles Frederick Mlllspaugh, 

 curator of the department of botany 

 at the Field museum since 1893, diedi 

 in the Presbyterian hospital late Sat 

 urday night, following several weeks' 



.iUnesa of pneumonia. Dr. Millspaugh. 



iwUo -B-as 69 years old, was one of the 



I country's foremost authorities on bot-j 

 any. \ 

 The son of John Hill Millspaugh}ll 



'famous etcher, and nephew of Kzra 

 Cornell, founder of Cornell university. 

 Dr. Millspaugh was born in Ithaca, 

 N. Y. He was educated at Cornell and 

 the New York Homeopathic college, 

 obtaining an JM. D. degree from the lat- 

 ter in 1881. 



His Scientific Field Wide. 

 Dr. Millspaugh was a practicing 

 physician in New Y..-; ' 

 1S91, when he went In 

 of West Virginia to c. n . . ■ 

 years' course in botany. Tlitn ho came j 



[to Chicago. j 



