1908] Day,— Writings of the late Alvah Augustus Eaton 211 
ows to the trees beyond was as beautiful to him as anything on earth 
could be; and in a letter written shortly before death he said that he 
had been moved into the front room of his house — “һе pleasantest 
room in the world." During the entire last period, after the surgeon's 
knife had, vainly, done its work and his bodily strength had gone, the 
real nature of the man shone out, noble and ennobling. 
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, Trenton, New Jersey. 
BOTANICAL WRITINGS OF THE LATE ALVAH AUGUSTUS 
EATON. 
M. A. Day. 
[Feeling that a list of Mr. Eaton’s botanical writings would be 
both a respectful tribute to his memory and an aid to students of 
American botany, Miss Day, librarian of the Gray Herbarium, has 
at our request kindly prepared the following bibliography to accom- 
pany Dr. Leavitt’s sketch. It is due to Miss Day to state that the 
compilation was necessarily hurried, but it is believed that it includes 
all Mr. Eaton’s more important published contributions to botany 
and most if not all his minor notes. It is possible that some of the 
latter have appeared in local journals and have escaped mention. As 
Dr. Leavitt’s notice has taken the form of an appreciation of Mr. 
Eaton's character and work, rather than an account of his life, it 
seems desirable to record here the following biographical data:— 
Alvah Augustus Eaton was born November 20, 1865, at Seabrook, 
New Hampshire. In 1898, he was elected Secretary of the Linnaean 
Fern Chapter, and in the following year chosen president of the same 
society. December 5, 1902, he was made a non-resident member of 
the New England Botanical Club. In September, 1904, he married 
Constance E. Wilkins. For about six years at the close of his life 
Mr. Eaton was officially connected with the Ames Botanical Labora- 
tory at North Easton, Massachusetts, where he was engaged chiefly in 
monographic, bibliographic, determinative, and field work of a taxo- 
nomic nature. He is survived by his widow and only child, Fred W. 
Eaton.—Ed.] 
