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NOTED BOTANIST DEAD 



Professor Herbert Maule Richards of Bar- 

 nard College Had Also Been Associated 

 with Harvard and Radclifie 



Professor Herbert Maule Rlchai-iia, ! 

 noted botanist and professor at Barnard 

 College, died last night in Now YorK, 

 aged fifty-six years, according to the 

 Associated Press. He went to Barnard 

 in 1906, after having taught at Harvard 

 and Radcllffp. ' 



Profeh^si.r I ; 111. i ris was born in Qer- 

 nlanto^v^ I, <>, 1871, and Was 



the son i i ;ichard8, an artist, 



and Ann;: , i, liichards, who Was 



an author, .studyins at Harvard, he re- 

 ceived his S. B. in 1891 and his 8. D. in 

 1895. He then went abroad and studied 

 at Leipzig during IS!>5 and 1896. In 1898 

 he visited tlie botanical garden at Buiten- 

 .ior.i;, Java,, whci-p lie remained a year, 

 and tliorciiftor he traveled in Japan, 

 China, Straits Settlements and the Malay 

 Archipelago. 



From 1892 to 1895 Professor Richards 

 was an a.ssistant Instructov at Harvard 

 and an iii.<;ti-uPtor .at Radclifie, and he 

 'VMS tutur nt IJnrnard Collp-p in New 

 Vurk- from lS!)i; to 18Li7. In is;i7 he re- 

 turned to Harvard and Radcliffe as in- 

 itructor, and subsequently was made a 



full professor. 



' He wa.= 

 Yorie Bn- 

 .America 

 ment ol 

 iral Sorii 

 Chemical Sock 



ntiflo 



th. 



director of the New 

 11, a fellow of the 

 for the Advance- 

 niber of the Botan- 

 ■ lica, the Americar 

 South America., 



Society of Biological Chemists, the So- 



ciety for Exper 

 cine, the Ajnert 

 New England 

 a member of tli 

 home was at 3 . 

 iTork. In 1895 he 



it.al Bloln^v and Medi- 

 -t5 and the 

 He was 

 'ii:>, and his 

 " D.-ive, New 

 ;d Marion Eliza- 



beth lAtham, who siu-vlves him. 



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