Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Herbert M. Richards
Professor of Botany
Centurion, 1910–1928
Proposed by
George A. Plimpton and Frederick J. E. Woodbridge
George A. Plimpton and Frederick J. E. Woodbridge
born
October 6, 1871
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
died
January 9, 1928
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected
November 5, 1910
Age thirty-nine
Age thirty-nine
buried
Woodlawn Cemetery,
Bronx, New York
Bronx, New York
seconder of
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Century Memorial
Herbert Maule Richards, professor of botany at Barnard College, was a member of a distinguished family, his father a well-known marine painter in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century, his sister, Mrs. Brewster, an excellent painter and sculptor and his older brother, Theodore, the chemist at Harvard University who was awarded the Nobel prize for his accurate determination of the atomic weights of the chemical elements. Our Professor Richards, in addition to his purely scientific work in botany, was an admirable and successful teacher of much personal charm and of genuine devotion to his pupils, graduate and undergraduate, by whom he was greatly beloved.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1928 Century Association Yearbook
