1895.] Daniel Cady Eaton. 367 
1816 and 1840 a number of important botanical works that 
ran through several editions, including some catalogues of 
local floras, a botanical grammar and dictionary, botanical 
exercises, and manuals of the northern states, and of the 
United States, the latter, revised in 1840 in conjunction with 
J. Wright, being known as the ‘‘eighth edition of Eaton’s 
Manual.” His father, General Amos B. Eaton, a distinguished 
military officer, was also interested in scientific pursuits, and 
made some fern collections that were subsequently included 
in his son’s account of ‘‘The ferns of the southwest,” pub- 
lished in Wheeler’s report in 1878. So that Prof. Eaton may 
be said to have been well equipped by inheritance for the 
work which he had undertaken todo. That he rendered a 
good account of the talents thus entrusted to him is evident 
from the splendid record which he has left for others to ad- 
mire and emulate. 
It is probably not generally known that Prof. Eaton had a 
cousin younger than himself, bearing precisely the same name, 
who was for some years professor of the history and criticism 
of art at Yale. In consequence of this fact the two profes- 
sors have sometimes been confused. ‘It is probably for this 
reason that the erroneous statement of his having been born 
in Johnstown, N. Y., has been published, as well as the state- 
ment that his name appears on the Yale ‘‘roll of honor” as 
private in the seventh New York regiment, although he did 
serve for several years as inspector of stores at New York 
city in the United States commissary department during the 
war. 
Prof. Eaton was, however, born at Fort Gratiot, Michigan, 
September 12, 1834, and was the son of General Amos B. 
Eaton and Elizabeth Selden, of Rochester, New York. His 
father distinguished himself in the Seminole and Mexican 
wars, becoming major by brevet after Buena Vista, and sub- 
He entered Yale College in 1853, and graduated in 1857 
with a class noted subsequently for its distinguished mem- 
new ferns from California and Oregon.” Immediately after 
graduation he entered Harvard as a member of the Lawrence 
Scientific School, where he began the systematic study of 
tany under Prof. Asa Gray. 
