TORREYA 



January, 1914. 

 Vol. 14 No. I 



ADDISON BROWN 



Judge Addison Brown, a member of this club since the second 

 year of its existence and for ten years its president, died on the 

 9th of April, 1913, in the eighty-third year of his life. 



Judge Brown's early studies were pursued under the tuition of 

 Benjamin Greenleaf, the mathematician, to whose influence was 

 probably due the fondness for astronomy which he always 

 displayed. His collegiate course was at Amherst, and later at 

 Harvard, where he graduated in 1852. His studies were re- 

 markably well balanced and his life was characterized by an 

 interest in widely separated fields of investigation. He was a 

 competent art critic and a creditable violinist. His legal prepa- 

 ration was at the Harvard Law School, from which he gradu- 

 ated in 1855. He began the practice of law in New York City in 

 the following year. In 1881, he became Judge in the United 

 States District Court which position he held until his retire- 

 ment, in 1 90 1. 



Judge Brown's botanical work, in which we are chiefly in- 

 terested, began even before he became a member of this club, 

 but was much more active thereafter. His connection with the 

 club was most helpful to it, but it is interesting to consider also 

 to how great an extent his own work in this field, and his great 

 service to botany, were determined by this relation. Almost 

 his first active work in local botany was in connection with our 

 ballast plants. He preserved his specimens and formed a private 

 herbarium, and also accumulated a good working library. 

 Although he could not be regarded as a general collector, yet 

 he made a number of botanical excursions in distant parts of 

 this country and studied portions of the European flora in the 

 field. His American travels extended as far as Alaska. 



[No. 12, Vol. 13, of TORREYA, Comprising pp. 265-301, was issued 30 December 1913I 



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