November 1908 Charles Reid Barnes [1858-1910] near Tehuacan, Mexico. Taken by his laboratory assistant Mr. Land, a practical joker perhaps. Land of Land cameras?

Dr. Charles Reid Barnes was a nationally recognized authority on the taxonomy of mosses. Barnes began his botany career studying at Harvard under Asa Gray. He became a professor of botany at Purdue University in 1882. In 1887 he was called to the University of Wisconsin and for 11 years developed and maintained the botany department there. In 1898 he became the first professor of plant biology at the University of Chicago. Barnes also served as editor for the Botanical Gazette.

From the archives of the Gray Herbarium