Charles Reid Barnes (1858–1910) was an American botanist specializing in

bryophyte The Bryophyta s.l. are a proposed taxonomic division containing three groups of non-vascular land plants (embryophytes): the liverworts, hornworts and mosses. Bryophyta s.s. consists of the mosses only. They are characteristically limited in s ...

s ( mosses,

liverwort The Marchantiophyta () are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of ...

s and hornworts). He was co-editor of the '' Botanical Gazette'' for over 25 years. Barnes was born at

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, September 7, 1858. He graduated from

Hanover College Hanover College is a private college in Hanover, Indiana, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). Founded in 1827 by Reverend John Finley Crowe, it is Indiana's oldest private college. The Hanover athletic teams participate in the H ...

in 1877, and afterward studied at

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, where he became friends with Asa Gray. After teaching in public schools for a few years, he became professor of botany at

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and mone ...

in 1882. In 1887 he was called to the

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, and for eleven years developed and maintained a vigorous department of botany in that institution. In 1898 he became professor of plant physiology at the

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, and completed twenty-eight years as a university professor. At Hanover College he met

John Merle Coulter John Merle Coulter, Ph. D. (November 20, 1851 – December 23, 1928) was an American botanist and educator. In his career in education administration, Coulter is notable for serving as the president of Indiana University and Lake Forest College a ...

as his instructor in botany, and from that time they became intimately associated, first as joint editors of the Botanical Gazette, and later as colleagues in the same university. He became a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1884 and a fellow in 1885; was secretary of the botanical section in 1894, secretary of the council in 1895, general secretary in 1896, and vice-president (chairman) of the botanical section in 1898, giving his retiring address at Columbus in 1899 on “The progress and problems of plant physiology.” He was secretary of the Botanical Society of America from its organization in 1894 to 1898, and became its president in 1903, giving his retiring address at Philadelphia in 1904 on "The theory of respiration." In 1905 he was a delegate from the botanical section of the American Association to the International Botanical Congress at Vienna. The term '

photosynthesis Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that, through cellular respiration, can later be released to fuel the organism's activities. Some of this chemical energy is stored i ...

' was coined by him in 1893. In 1883 Barnes became co-editor of the '' Botanical Gazette'', a position he held for 27 years. Barnes died in Chicago, on February 24, 1910, from injuries sustained in an accidental fall.

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