The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-02

Chocolate; their Nature and their Eff fects,' printed the former in 1882, the latter in 1884, besides his botanical deh- nitions in Webster's International Die ttonary, and an excursion now and then into genealogy, of which he was eX- tremely fond. But his great and dis tinctlve addition to his chosen science was his Ferns dncluding the Ophio- glossaceae) of the United States of America and British North American Possessions" published in 1S79-'S0, and dedicated to his old instructor, Profes- ,sor Gray.
 This work, at once the summary and climax of Prof. Eaton's long and toll some labors among the tiowerless
 plants, eXacting most acute discrimina-
 tion and ekilful use of the microscope,
 Is an edition de lux of two volumes con
 talning 637 pages and S1 colored plates beautifully executed from drawings of actual specimens by J. H. Emerton and
 c. F. Faxon. At the time of it's publi- cation there had been a gap of some sixty years since the appearance of | Nuttalls genera of North American | plants, and the number of recognized | American ferns had risen from 70 to al- | most 150. The plan is that of the Fi- | lices Exoticoe of Hooker, but Prof. Eaton gives the definitions in English | in addition to Latin, and the author | further popularizes the volumes by | sketching history of the ferns and ex- | blaming their method of cultivation. | In the ferns which Prof. Eaton pictures | and describes twelve appear as new | species bearing his name. These new ferns are the Cheilanthes Cooperae | (Mrs. Cooper's lip fern), Aspidium Nevadense Sierra shield fern), Cheilan- | thes Clevelandii (Cleveland's lip fern), l Notholaena Newberryi (Newberry's
 NotholaenO, Pellaea Breweri Brewers cliff brake), Aspidium Rigidum Rigid wood fern), Notholaena Hookeri (HIook- l CTS Notholaena), Asplenium Bradleyi l (Bradley's spleenworD, Aspidium Flo ridanum (Florida wood fern), Woodsia | Oregana Oregon Woodsia), Woodsia 1 Soopulina (Recky Mountain Woodsia), and Cheilanthes Gracillima Qace fern). | The author in the course of his intro | duction pens two sentences which hint the nature and limitation of his own work as botanist. Little Is said about
 the physiology of ferns, It Is a separate
 branch of botanical study, and persons wishing to pursue it can find excellent works suited to their purpose" The two quoted sentances indicate the fact
 of Prof. Eaton's pretty close confine-
 ment ito systematic and structural bot any. One result of 1t was, perhaps,
 to give somewhat technical cast to his instruction in the class room, but
 he drew to his private herbarium (prob- ably the best of the kind In the coun- try, and perhaps the world) many spec
 ial students, and it became a focus towards which botanical inquiries pour ed from all parts of the world.
 Prof. Eaton had served as secretary
 of his class as governor of the Connec- ticut Society of the Colonial Wars, | and as an officer of several genealogical l organizations.
 An ardent enthusiast in his chosen
 science. ever ready to aid those seeking its lights, Prof. Eaton owned as natal
 gift most graceful and winsome per- sonality. He was singularly but un-
 obstrusively helpful in every social re-
 lation, generous and tender In his char ities, always eager with some self-sac- riflcing act of neighhorly kindness. He took keen interest in the politics of city, state and nation. Up to the year 1884 he had been steadfast republican,
 but in that year, when so many of the
 Yale faculty resented the nomination of Blaine. he joined the local organiza-
 tion of independent republicans, con-
 tributed money and work to aid MT. Cleveland's election, and had ever
 since been an independent in political
 action. He loved intensely the outdoor
 life of woodland and field, was fond of
 sports, and a few years ago, when
 archery was revived for while, he
 won local fame for his skill with the
 bow. He married, February 13, 1866
 Caroline, daughter of Tredwell Ketch-
 am of New Haven. She and two child
 ren, daughter and son, who was l graduated in the class of 1894 at Yale,
 survive him.