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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1924 



EDWARD L. RAND DEAD 



Graduate of Harvard, '81, Resident of 

 Cambridge, and Interested in Botany, 

 on Which He Wrote Considerable 



Edward Lothrop Rand, a Boston lawyer, 

 who practiced in this city, with an office 

 at 53 State street, from 1884 until 1021, 

 when he was Incapacitated by reason of 

 a stroke, died early this afternoon at his 

 home, 189!) Massachusetts avenue, Cam- 

 bridge, following a second stroke which 

 he suffered early today. 



Mr. Rand was a native of Dedham, where 

 he was born in ISiiO. He was the son of 

 Edward S., Jr., and Jennie A. (Lathrop) 

 Hand. He was graduated from Harvard 

 in the class of '81. He was a member of 

 the Massachusetts Bar Association, Bar 

 Association of tho City of Boston. Military 

 Order of tho Loyal Legion, New England 

 Botanical Club, Episcopalian Club., and 

 the Phi Beta Kappa. 



He was the author of the Flora of Mt. 

 Desert Islands, Me., which he published in 

 1891: and he also wrote numerous ar- 

 ticles on botanical subjects for various 

 scientific and other publications. 



The surviving members of his family 

 are a sister, Miss Margaret A. Rand, and a 

 brother. Henry L. Rand, both residing at 

 49 Kirkland street, Cambridge. Mr. 

 Rands wife, who was Annie M. Crozier 

 of Charlestown, diod in 1921. 



