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death of issuing a list with notes and descriptions of new species. 
His collection of Polynesian Mosses is very large and complete. 
For-a number of years he had been collecting and studying 
the various species of the genus Sphagnum. In 1893 he issued a 
list of the North American species and a prospectus of a proposed 
distribution, undertaken in connection with Mr. Edwin Faxon, to 
be called “Sphagna Boreali-Americana Exsiccata.” He spent 
much time in collecting, preparing and determining sets, and was 
very particular about the excellence and homogeneity of his speci- 
mens. Many of the sets are practically ready for distribution, 
and it is to be hoped that these, at least, may be issued at some 
future time. 
Professor Eaton prepared the botanical definitions for Web- 
ster’s International Dictionary, and contributed many reviews of 
botanical books to the various periodicals. During the last four 
or five years he has contributed the botanical reviews to the ‘‘ Na- 
tion”’ and to the “ New York Evening Post,” touching upon cur- 
rent botanical changes and opinions in the graceful and discerning 
way characteristic of him. 
Professor Eaton was one of the original members of the Tor- 
rey Botanical Club, and remained an active member for a number 
of years. Later he became a corresponding member. He was a 
regular and active contributor to the BuLierin, especially during 
the earlier years of its existence. 
Besides his botanical interests Professor Eaton had many 
others. He was an enthusiastic lover of athletic sports, of archery, 
of baseball and football, and of fishing and hunting. He was an 
ardent student of anthropology and genealogy. He was a mem- 
ber of several genealogical societies and made a considerable study 
of the genealogies of the Eaton and Selden families, and published 
the results in several papers. He was also Governor of the Con- 
necticut Society of the Colonial Wars for some years. 
In politics Professor Eaton was a Republican until 1884, but 
from that time took an active part in the independent movement 
in Connecticut. 
His interest in the classics, both of the Latin and of the 
Greek, was very great, and he much deplored the present lack of 
facility and even use of proper Latin, both in the choice of generic 
