JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XIV June, 1913 No. 162 
ADDISON BROWN 
By the death of Ex-Judge Addison Brown, on April 9, 1913, 
the New York Botanical Garden has lost a member of its Board 
of Managers, who, more than any other person, made the 
establishment of the institution possible. 
Judge Brown was born at West Newbury, Massachusetts, 
February 21, 1830, and graduated from Amherst College in 
1849 and from Harvard in 1852 e became a member of the 
New York Bar in 1855 and Caceres ed law for many years. In 
1881, he was appointed United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of New York and held this position for twenty 
years, during which period he handed down a great number of 
opinions, largely in shipping admiralty and bankruptcy; a digest 
of his decisions was published in 1902, and he was awarded the 
degree of LL.D. by Harvard College in the sam 
He joined the Torrey Botanical Club o Ae vaks in 1875, 
two years after the organization of that society, and for many 
field meetings, and he contributed much to the interest of its 
ordinary sessions. During these years, he was a diligent and 
enthusiastic collector of botanical specimens and accumulated 
thus, as well as by exchange with other botanists, a large and 
valuable herbarium; he made botanical trips to distant parts 
of the United States, visiting the Rocky Mountains and the 
Southern Alleghanies, and also collected plants in Europe; his 
botanical library is comprehensive. In 1893, he was elected 
president of the Torrey Botanical Club and was unanimously 
(Journat for May, 1913 (14: 97-118), was issued June 3, 1913.) 
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