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CHARLES REID BARNES. 
Marshall A. Howe. 
American bryologists were shocked recently to learn of the sudden death 
of Professor Charles Reid Barnes, which occurred in Chicago on February 
24, as a result of a fall on an icy sidewalk. Professor Barnes was born in 
Madison, Indiana, September 7, 1858, and was, accordingly, in the fift^^-second 
year of his age. He was graduated from Hanover College in 1877 and after- 
wards, on several occasions, was in residence at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 
in order to carry on botanical researches at Harvard University, From 1880 
to 1887, he was instructor and professor in natural science lines in Purdue 
University at Lafayette, Indiana, resigning in the latter year to accept the 
professorship of botany in the University of Wisconsin, which important posi- 
tion he held until 1898, when he became professor of plant physiology in the 
University of Chicago. Professor Barnes had been one of the editors of the 
Botaiiical Gazette since 1883 and had played an important part in the devel- 
opment of that influential and efficient periodical. In 1886 the “Handbook 
of Plant Dissection,” by Arthur, Barnes, and Coulter was published. This, 
in its day. was widely used as a laboratory manual, and together with Pro- 
fessor Bessey's well-known botanical textbooks, helped to usher in a new 
era in botanical instruction in American high schools and colleges — one in 
which the emphasis fell upon anatomy and morphology rather than upon 
herborizing and classification. Although Professor Barnes early evinced an 
interest in the physiology of plants, and although during his later years his 
published papers are mostly along this line, his earlier researches were 
largely in systematic lines and related particularly to the mosses. It is 
probable that the wide first-hand knowledge of plants that he thus acquired 
in field and herbarium contributed appreciably to the accuracy of his later 
work in other phases of botanical science. Following is a list — doubtless 
incomplete — of his bryological papers; 
Analytic key to the genera of mosses, recognized in Lesquereux and James’s 
Manual of the mosses of North America. Purdue Univ. Sci. Bull. no. 
1 : 1-12. 1886. 
Revision of the North American species of Fissidens. I. Bot. Gaz. 12 : 1-8. 
Ja 1887; II. Bot. Gaz. 12 : 25-32. F — 1887. 
Revision of N. Am. species of Fissidens. Bot. Gaz. 13 : 99. Ap 1888. 
Notes on North American mosses. I. Bot. Gaz. 14 : 44, 45. F — 1889; II. Bot. 
Gaz. 16 : 205-207. J 1 1891. 
