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cured a transcript of it, and so edited it as greatly to enhance its 

 value. In addition to labors peculiarly his own, he contributed to the 

 " Memorial History of Boston " one of the most important chapters, 

 and two chapters to the " Narrative and Critical History of America." 

 His style was simple, chaste, and elegant, manifestly formed on the 

 best models, and as an annotator he had the rare gift of knowing pre- 

 cisely what needed to be supplied or explained, and what the reader 

 might be supposed to know or understand without prompting. 



Though not a college graduate, Mr. Deaue did not lack university 

 honors. In 1856, he received from Harvard College the degree of 

 A. M. ; that of LL. D. was conferred on him by Bowdoin College in 

 1871, and in 1886, at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the 

 founding of Harvard College, he was selected as foremost in his de- 

 partment of literature for a place among the men of special eminence 

 who then received the degree of LL. D. 



Mr. Deane in private life merited and won only the highest esteem, 

 honor, and love. He had and made a happy home, a centre of kind- 

 ness and hospitality. He was generous, not only in those charities 

 of which a man of ample means does not feel the cost, but in his un- 

 failing readiness to aid others in their researches at the expense of 

 time, which to him was more precious than money, and equally in his 

 full appreciation of labors kindred to or parallel with his own, which 

 had no more cordial welcome, and, when merited, no more hearty 

 praise than from him. He probably never had an enemy or a de- 

 tractor ; while no man can have had a longer list of friends, or 

 warmer friends than those who knew him best. 



ASSOCIATE FELLOWS. 



JOHN HUNTINGTON CRANE COFFIN* 



John Huntington Crane Coffin was born in "Wiscasset, Maine, 

 September 14, 1815; he died in Washington, D. C, January 8, 1890. 

 He was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1834, and in January, 1836, 

 entered the United States Navy as Professor of Mathematics. From 

 1836 till 1843 he served on board the "Vandalia" and "Constella- 

 tion" of the West India squadron, at the Norfolk Navy Yard, and on 



• By permission from Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia for 1890, 



