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obtained a Boylston Prize, were received with much favor, and went 

 through several editions. His leisure he devoted to the study of 

 marine botany and entomology. In 1854, he was elected a Fellow of 

 this Academy. In 1859, he was chosen an Honorary Member of the 

 State Society of New York; and in 1860, a Corresponding Member 

 of the Natural History Society at Montreal. He was for a time a 

 Consulting Physician of the City of Boston ; and continued on the 

 Consulting Board of Physicians and Surgeons of the Boston City 

 Hospital from 1864 to the time of his death. 



Dr. Durkee was a warm-hearted and true friend, a faithful physi- 

 cian, an ardent promoter of science, and a Christian gentleman. His 

 death is lamented by a large circle of friends, in and out of the pro- 

 fession. 



JOHN BARNARD SWETT JACKSON. 



John Barnard Swett Jackson was the fourth and last child of 

 Captain Henry and Hannah (Swett) Jackson. He was born in Sud- 

 bury Street, Boston, June 5, 1806, and was named after his mother's 

 brother, Dr. John Barnard Swett, a much respected physician of New- 

 buryport. 



He was but six months old when his father died. His uncles, the 

 late Hon. Charles Jackson and Dr. James Jackson, became his natural 

 guardians, and treated him like one of their own children. After 

 going to several schools, where he proved himself diligent and exem- 

 plary in conduct, he went at the age of thirteen to a school kept by 

 Mr. Hall, where he was fitted for college. At fifteen, he entered Har- 

 vard College. His classmate, Dr. Samuel Kirkland Lothrop, bears 

 witness to his being eminently faithful, aiming ever to do in the very 

 best and most thorough way that he could whatever work or duty he 

 had to perform. No temptation, he adds, would have made him hesi- 

 tate or swerve, or do or say any thing that was not honest and true. 

 " He was true, open, frank, concealing nothing, because there was 

 nothing he wished or that needed to be concealed. He was modest, 

 unassuming, as far from all arrogance and pretension as he was from 

 envy, jealousy, and a spirit of rivalry." He maintained a respectable 

 if not an eminent rank, and received appointments to two " parts " 

 during his college career. 



He graduated in 1825, and immediately began his medical studies 

 under the instruction of Dr. James Jackson and others associated with 

 him. In 1827, he was chosen house apothecary for one year at the 



