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Os Quercus de Portugal, published in volume vi. of the Boletin da 
Sociedade Broteriana, on the fructification of the Cork Oak. On 
page 140 of the fourth volume there is an account by him of Viaggio 
negli Stati Uniti del? America Septentrionale fatto negli anni 1785, 1786, 
e 1787, da Lugi Castiglioni. Con alcune osservazioni sui Vegetabilr 
etc., a work which had been overlooked by American botanists; on 
page 292 of volume viii. will be found an article on the Birds of the 
Arnold Arboretum with lists of summer and winter residents; and on 
page 464 of the ninth volume there is a short note by him on Aster 
infirmus Michaux to accompany his illustration of that species which 
he had found growing in abundance at Lexington, Massachusetts. Of 
more importance is his translation from the Danish of an article on 
Wisconsin birds by the Danish ornithologist Grundtvig.! He contrib- 
uted to A Guide of the Arnold Arboretum the chapter on birds. If 
Faxon wrote little his good taste, knowledge of languages and good 
judgment were always at the command of his associates, to whom 
for thirty years he rendered invaluable services in the careful and 
critical examination of their proof-sheets. 
In his drawings Faxon united accuracy with graceful composition 
and softness of outline. He worked with a sure hand and great 
rapidity, and few botanical draftsmen have produced more. Cer- 
tainly none of them have drawn the flowers, fruits and leaves of as 
many trees. Among the very few who in all time have excelled in 
the art of botanical draftsmanship Faxon’s position is secure, and his 
name will live with those of the great masters of his art as long as 
plants are studied. 
Faxon never lost his interest in reading or in Nature, and although 
he lived alone he had too many resources to be lonely. In all the 
years I knew him he was never sick, and only once was kept at home 
for a few days, the result of a fall on the ice. He was absolutely free 
of jealousies, and, although in temperament he was not sanguine and 
too often had unnecessary forebodings of trouble, his life was a happy 
one. He enjoyed to the end the long country walks to which, with 
his brothers, he had become accustomed as a boy; and to him a sum- 
mer day in New England, when trees, birds and flowers taught him new 
1 On the Birds of Shiocton in Bovina, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, 1881-83, by F. Grundtvig. 
Translated by Charles E. Faxon from the Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske 
Forening i Kjøbenhavn for Aaret, 1887, pp. 305-396, and published in the Transactions of the 
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Lellers, x. pp. 74-158. Issued March, 1895. 
