died on 21 January 1936, some weeks after his seventy-third birthday, in New Guinea from food poisoning contracted from eating contaminated wild boar meat. The College Alumni Magazine paid tribute in an obituary in May 1936. The couple had never had any children, and Mary spent the rest of her life, from the outbreak of war in the Pacific when she was evacuated from New Guinea, in Australia, most of it working at the Queensland Herbarium. Upon the discovery of his diaries, she donated them to the Dickinson College archives. Achievements Joseph Clemens was one of many from the Dickinson family who traveled abroad spreading the knowledge gained within the old gray walls to the farthest points in the world. During most of the early years of the college, the vast majority of these students were Methodist and Presbyterian missionaries who sought to spread western ideas to the "less fortunate." Clemens, even if completely in this tradition, engaged his world also as a soldier for a United States making its own first move towards international power. Finally, the curiosity he had exhibited his whole life made him the perfect scientific partner for an impressive woman botanical pioneer. Joseph Clemens, all in all, serves as a fascinating example of the historical moment when Dickinsonians so engaged the world. See also Mary Strong Clemens References Hanners, Amy; & Webb, Gregory. Joseph Clemens: Soldier, Scientist, and Missionary. Accessed 19 July 2007 1862 births 1936 deaths American Methodist missionaries American botanists Dickinson College alumni World War I chaplains United States Army chaplains Plant collectors American expatriates in the Philippines Methodist missionaries in the Philippines British emigrants to the United States Missionary botanists