JOHN AMORY LOWELL. 
JoHun Amory 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 Har- 
vard 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 preparing this memorial. When 
the Fellows of the Academy were arranged in classes and sec- 
tions, the pronounced tastes inherited from his father and culti- 
vated by his own studies made it natural that he should belong 
to the small section of botany. But he might with equal pro- 
priety 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 
Academy. To mention only the direct line, the subject of 
our notice was 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 writ- 
ings as “ The Norfolk Farmer,” and as a principal promoter, 
1 Proceedings American Academy of Arts and Science, xvii. 408. 
(1882.) 
