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Oakes Ames '98, research professor of Botany, emeritus and the world's leading authority on orchids died yesterday morning at his home in Ormand, Florida.
The 75 year old Ames joined the faculty in 1899 and became professor of Botany and Chairman of the Division of Biology in 1926. His collection of over 64,000 orchids, the most complete in the US., is now in the Botanical Museum, which he directed from 1935 to 1945.
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