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Word has been received of the death of Dr. Sidney Fay Blake in Beltsville, Md. on Dec. 31, 1959.

He was born in Stoughton on Aug. 31, 1892, the son of Walter R. and Harriet (Southworth) Blake.

He received his A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, held a Sheldon Fellowship for 2 years, after which he became Senior Botanist and Plant Classification Expert in the U. S. Department of Agriculture which post he held for 42 years.