Obituary Notices

1951of Pacific C°ast Geographers33 ************************* FORREST SHREVE, 1878 1950 Forrest Shreve, president of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers in 1941-42, died in Tucson, Arizona July 19, 1950 at the age of 72. Born in Maryland, he studied at The Johns Hopkins University and received the Ph.D. degree in 1905. He was a staff member of the department of botanical research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908-27, and in charge of desert investigations since 1928. He was editor of the "Plant World, " the predecessor of "Ecology" from 1911-19. He was publication editor of "Naturalist's Guide to the Americas. " Dr. Shreve was a botanist with a wide range of interest. The subjects he studied included the ecology and physiology of the montane rain forests of Jamaica, climate of mountains, climate and distribution of vegetation , radial growth of trees and its conditions, plant ecology of the coastal ranges of California, climates of American and Mexican deserts, and ecology, water economy, and distribution of desert plants and desert vegetation in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. Nearly all of Dr. Shreve's studies aimed to elucidate the relationship of the plants to their natural environment, particularly the adjustment of the desert vegetation to the special factors and conditions of the arid regions of the Southwest and neighboring Mexico. He studied the plants under natural conditions, in the field. Many of the investigations dealt directly with plant geographical problems. He contributed papers to the Yearbooks 6 and 8 of the Association. In 1909 Dr. Shreve married Edith Bellamy, a prominent plant physiologist . ************************* WARREN DUPRE SMITH, 1880-1950 Oregon lost one of its best known and beloved geographer -geologists when Warren Dupre" Smith passed away, on July 18, 1950, at his home in Eugene. Warren Smith was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 12, 1880. He received the Ph.D. in geology from the University of Wisconsin in 1908. For eleven years he worked in the Philippine Islands as a geologist for the Bureau of Mines. In 1914 Warren Smith came to the University of Oregon as Professor and Head of the Department, a position he held until his retirement in 1947. During his period of service in the University or Oregon, Professor Smith took time out for travel to Europe, the Orient, and South America. He was a member of many scientific societies, including the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers and the Geological Society of America. During the period 1905-1946, Warren Smith published nearly 100 books and articles, most of which were concerned with the geology and geography of the Philippines and the state of Oregon. ************************* ************************* CLARENCE K. STUDLEY, 1877-1951 Clarence Knight Studley played an important part in the development of his community, his college, and his chosen field, geography. For forty years he taught science and geography at Chico State College, and for many years served as Dean and Vice President. He can be called the father of college geography in far northern California. He was born in Adin, Modoc County, and died in Chico, having spent most of his life in northern California. He graduated from Stanford University and received his M. S. degree at Berkeley. After a brief period of teaching at Lompoc and Chico High Schools, he joined the faculty of Chico State College, where he remained from 1907 until his retirement in 1946. In 1929, when he brought to Chico a full-time geographer, Peveril Meigs, he gave the young newcomer a free hand to develop the geography program, and confined his own teaching to geology and meteorology. The time-consuming administrative burdens of his later years never weakened his interest in geography, and he gave invaluable support to the geography program during the lean depression 30's. During World War II he undertook to teach single-handedly enough geography courses to maintain the continuity of the work at the college. At all times "C. K.", as he was affectionately known, lived a simple upright life, steadfastly setting for himself the highest principles of conduct and even abstemiousness, yet conceding to others the right to live their lives in their own way. Among other community and college activities he originated the...