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account of his trips to Labrador and Florida, and this journal has to-day 
for those who knew him and remember his old associates, a peculiar 
charm. Soon after he came to Framingham his journal ceases. 
It was intended that he should study some profession, but his eyesight 
failing he was compelled to give up books and was advised to take 
a farm, and so began life in Framingham in 1853, and remained there 
until his death. In his domestic relations he seems to have been most 
fortunate and happy. He was a devoted son, and when married found 
his chief delight in the attractions of a pleasant, retired home among 
meadows, ponds, and woods. He married early a charming woman who 
appreciated his character and made his house attractive. 
We know that when Mr. Browne was about ten or twelve years of age 
he was at Brook Farm under the tutelage of A. Bronson Alcott and living 
in his family. This early training and his attachment to Henry Thoreau 
may have had much to do with determining his tastes and the bent of his 
mind. His character was marked by a modest self-appreciation, a dislike 
of all show or pretence, a love of honest simplicity in living and thinking, 
and of all that is true and pure. He was always humble, charitable to the 
views of those who differed from him, apt to question the value of his 
own observations, seldom referring to his contributions to science. 
Simple and refined, he was always a gentleman and a scholar without 
pretending to the réle of either. He had no coarse streaks about him; 
he had a discriminating taste in literature and loved music. We are 
indebted to him for many contributions to our knowledge of bird-life 
(migrations, habits, etc.), things which only patient, loving attention 
and study could enable any one observer to discover. He took pride in 
keeping abreast of modern ideas upon ornithology and nomenclature, 
and was a diligent reader of ‘The Auk’ and other journals of his favorite 
science. 
Mrs. Browne outlived her husband but a few days leaving one child, 
a daughter. —Z. B. ADAMs. 
Joun A. Daxkry, an Associate Member of the American Ornithologists’ 
Union, died, after an illness of six days, at his home in Syracuse, N.Y., 
Feb. 21, 1900, at the age of 48 years. Mr. Dakin was born at Hillsdale, 
Columbia County, N. Y., in 1852, but when a small boy moved to Tully, 
N. Y., with his parents, where he received his first education in one of the 
district schools. He early manifested his love for birds, and later 
acquired a thorough knowledge of the birds of Onondaga County. In 
1882 he went to Florida and hunted through the Everglades and along 
the Oklawaha River, collecting specimens and studying the birds of that 
region. He also gave much attention to the heronries, which were then 
innumerable on the brushy islands and shores of White Lake. After 
remaining in Florida four years he returned North, and fixed his home 
in Syracuse. In 1893 he took up the study of Lepidoptera, which he 
