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Development of the Field museum 

 department of botany as the greatest 

 exposition of economic botany has 

 been credited chiefly to the personal 

 effort of the curator, who labored for 

 j nearly thirty yeara to achieve what 

 Will now stand as a monument to his 

 knowledge and enterprise. 



But Dr. Millspaugh's standing did 

 not rest solely upon his work here. He 

 had done extensive exploration work, 

 and was a lecturer who was much 

 sought. 



Experienced As Explorer. 

 Dr. Milispaugh explored In Mexico 

 as ear^ as 1887 and as late as 1900, 

 four times in all; the West Indies, 

 Brazil, and a number of uninhabited 

 Bahaman islets, in 1904. 



The Field muF.curn curator of botany 

 had been a professor of medical bot- 

 any at the Chicago Homeopathic col- 

 lege since 1S97 and a lecturer at the 

 University of Chicago since 1895. He 

 was a fellow of the American j»cad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences, of the Ex- 

 plorers' club, and various other sci- 

 entiflo organizeilons. He was the au- 

 thor of several authoritative books on 

 botany. 



A widow, Mrs. Clara Mitchell Milis- 

 paugh, and two children survive. The 

 family homo is in South Chicago. Fu- 

 neral arrangements had not been made 

 'ast night. 



