BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Daniel Cady Eaton, 
1834-1895. 
By WILLIAM ALBERT SETCHELL. 
(With portrait.) 
The death of Prof. Daniel C. Eaton, at his home, in New 
Haven, on June 30, 1895, removes from among us the last link in- 
timately connecting the systematic botany of the present with 
that of the past. During the first half of the present century the 
most influential writer upon, and teacher of, botany in this country 
was Amos Eaton, Senior Professor of the Rennselaer Institute at 
Troy, N. Y., and grandfather of the subject of our sketch. His 
Manual was the inspiration and guide of our earlier botanists, and 
continued to be until supplanted by the works of Torrey and 
Gray. The botanists earlier than and contemporaneous with 
' Amos Eaton were writers of Floras, but Amos Eaton, himself, 
was a teacher of great ability and awakened, even among the 
members of the New York Legislature, so it is said, a deep and 
widespread interest in natural history. From him John Torrey 
learned the rudiments of botany, and was able to broaden and 
deepen the knowledge and interest in botanical things of Asa 
Gray, whose first knowledge of the subject came from Amos 
Eaton’s text-books, Of Gray’s influence upon the botany, not 
only of this country, but of the world, it is needless to speak, so 
present is it with all of us. Of Gray’s associates and pupils two 
were more intimately thrown together than any others, and these 
