Professor of Botany
Centurion, 1910–1928
Born 6 October 1871 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died 9 January 1928 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by George A. Plimpton and Frederick J. E. Woodbridge
Elected 5 November 1910 at age thirty-nine
Seconder of:
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
