The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-02
IN MEM0RIAM.
The Late Professor Daniel o. Eaton.

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 The Late Professor Daniel c. Eaton.
 The following sketch of the career of the late Professor Daniel Cady Eaton of this city. and tribute to his memory, were given in last evenings New York Post;
 Daniel Cady Eaton, professor of bota- ny at Yale college, died at his home In New Haven on Saturday, He had beem very i'll for many months and had done no work In connection with the college since last Christmas.
 In the advancement of American bot any perhaps no name, except Asa Gray,
 has been more widely known than that of Professor Amos Eaton, head of the Rensselaer, institute at Troy, N. r., who during the early decades of this cen
 tury may be said in a popular sense to have blazed the way as a pioneer in the classification of the flora of the United
 States. Three of his children inherited
 his scientific tastes, A daughter, Sara C., became teacher of natural sciences
 in seminary at Monticello, O.; a son,
 who died very young, had already be-
 come a professor of chemistry in Tran
 sylwania university; and another son, Amos B., who went into the army, took
 part in the Seminole and Mexican wars,
 was breveted major after Buena Vista,
 and rose to be brigadier general. had
 strong proclivities in the direction of
 science. Genera HEaton married Eliza
 beth Selden, a re1a tive of Henry R. Sell
 den of Rochester, N. Y, and their son,
 Daniel c. Eaton, the subject of this
 sketch, was born at Fort Gratiot Mich,
 September 12, 1884, Thus through two
 generations Professor Eaton drew that love of scientific research which was to shape his life-work.
 He prepared for college somewhat ma turely and entered Yale in 1853 with the class of 1857, which numbered among it's members Professor Eli Whitney Blake of Brown university, Professor David Stuart Dodge of the Syrian Protestant college, President Cyrus Northrup of the University of Minnesota, Professor Mo- ses Colt Tyler of Cornell, President Strong of Rochester Theological semi nary, Professor DeForest of Talladega college, and Professor Lovewell of Washburn college. His name does not appear in the list of college honors. but a year before graduation he had con- tributed to the American Journal of Sci ence a short paper on Three New Ferns from California and Oregon" Immedi- ately after graduation in 1857, as mem | Der of the Lawrence Scientific school at Harvard, he began the study of bot any under Professor Asa Gray with whom he formed a warm intimacy, which continued until the latter's death. He worked under Professor Gray for 1 three years, and received in 1860 the de- gree of bachelor of science from Har- ward, when the outbreak of the civil war I interrupted his academic labors. His | name appears on the Yale "roll of hon. | or" as private in the Seventh New York l regiment, and for several years he serv- | ed in the United States comnissary de- partment as inspector of stores at New York city. In 1864 he was elected pro- lessor of botany at Yale, on one of the university foundations, and moved to \ New Haven, where he had held his pro-
 fessorship, with duties chiefly in the Sheffield Scientific school for almost
 thirty-one years.
 1 The study of American botany, which, under the grandfather. had been gen. | eralized and almost rudimentary, had | already, in common with other natural 1 sciences, begun to tend towards special ziatlon when the grandson began his formal life-work. Forecasting the flu | ture subdivisions of the large field, the pupil of Professor Gray had evidently l chosen as his speciality the cryptogamia \ and as sub-specialties ferns, mosses and algae. Before he became professor he ! had published papers on ferns of Japan I and of eastern Cuba, and in Chapman $ 1 Flora of the Southern United States had contributed chapter on "F'ilices. ? \ His next important published work was l his Ferns" in the fifth edition of the Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States" by Professor Gray printed in 1867, followed the year after by "Acrogens" in "Gray's Botany of the Field, Forest and Garden" There could I be enumerated here about sixty of his printed papers. most of them brief and referring to ferns, mosses and algae, but with an occasional dip into popular bot i any, as in his Vegetable Fibres in an | nrfota'c Meet b n,. hic 'Frao Cnffaa r6