408 JOHN AMORY LOWELL. 



In his volumes there was something for every age and every taste. 

 But in this variety, diverse as it was in motive and iu interest, there 

 was an essential and controlling unity of spirit. It was all inspired 

 with the sweet and generous nature of the poet, his faith in man, his 

 trust in God, his high purpose and principle, his allegiance to duty. 



Modest, simple, kind, tender-hearted, beloved by all who knew him, 

 famous throughout the world, he has left a memory in which there 

 is nothing to regret, and which will forever be cherished by his 

 country. 



JOHN AMORY LOWELL. 



John Amort 'Lowell died, at his residence in Boston, on the 

 31st of October last, when he had almost completed the eighty-third 

 year of his age, for he was born on the 11th of November, 1798. A 

 few years of his boyhood — from 1803 to 1806 — were passed in 

 Paris, where he was a spectator of some of the glorifications of the 

 First Empire, especially on the occasion of the return from Austerlitz. 

 He entered Harvard College in 1811, Messrs. Sparks, Parsons, and 

 Palfrey being among his classmates, and after graduation he entered 

 a mercantile house. He was elected into this Academy on the 10th 

 of November, 1841, at the same time with two other Fellows assigned 

 to the botanical section. One was "William Oakes, of Ipswich, who 

 died seven years afterward ; to the other is assigned the duty of pre- 

 paring this memorial. When the Fellows of the Academy were ar- 

 ranged in classes and sections, the pronounced tastes inherited from 

 his father, and cultivated by his own studies, made it natural that he 

 should belong to the small section of botany. But he might with 

 equal propriety have been relegated to more than one section of the 

 third class. For, notwithstanding his devotion to business affairs, his 

 classical and linguistic knowledge were always well kept up, and his 

 authority upon economical and financial questions was great. 



The family has always had a marked representation in this Acad- 

 emy. To mention only the direct line, the subject of our notice Wiis 

 chosen into it very shortly after the death of his father, — the John 

 Lowell who, after achieving distinction and a competency at the bar, 

 retired from active practice at the age of thirty-four, to be known 

 through his valuable writings as "The Norfolk Farmer," and as a 

 principal promoter, if not the founder, of scientific agriculture and 

 horticulture in New England. John Lowell — the father of John 

 Amory Lowell — was elected into the Academy in the year 1804, 



