184 Daniel Cady Eaton. 
Art. XIX.— Daniel Cady Eaton. 
DaNIEL Capy Eaton, Professor of Botany in Yale Uni- 
versity, died at his home in New Haven on June 29th. 
He was of old New England stock, and the name has been 
associated with the progress of botany in this country for more 
than eighty years. His grandfather was that pioneer of 
American science, Prof. Amos Eaton, who perhaps more than 
any other one man stimulated the study of natural history in 
this country during the second and third decades of this cen- 
tury. 
ces) of his children were educated in scientific pursuits. 
One son, Amos B. Eaton, although sharing the scientific tastes 
of the other children, was trained for the army and graduated at 
West Point in 1826. He was in the Seminole, Mexican and 
the Civil War, and rose to the rank of Brigadier General. 
General Eaton married Elizabeth Selden, who also was of 
New England stock, and Daniel Cady Eaton, the subject of 
this sketch, was born at Fort Gratiot, in Michigan, September 
12th, 1834. In the changes incident to the military duties of 
the father, the family, during the youth of the son, had no 
very permanent place of abode. The mother was a sister of 
the eminent jurists, Samuel L. Selden and Henry R. Selden of 
Rochester, N. Y., and she lived in that city during a part of 
his boyhood, and until the close of the Mexican war. Later, 
he was for a while a student in the Rensselaer Institute at 
Troy, and still later, in Gen. Russell’s Military School at New 
Haven. 
He entered Yale College in 1853, and was graduated in 1857, 
having among his classmates an unusual number of persons 
who have since become eminent as professors in colleges. He 
was already a zealous student in botany, and published his first 
paper “On Three New Ferns from California and Oregon” in 
this Journal in 1856, while a junior in college. 
After graduation he studied botany with Prof. Gray at 
Harvard for three years, and received in 1860 the degree of 
B.S. in that institution and that of M.A. in course at Yale. 
He was a diligent student and published during this period 
papers on some New Filices from Japan; An Enumeration of 
Ferns collected by Mr. Charles Wright in Cuba; Equisetaceze, 
Filices, ete., of the United States and Mexican Boundary Sur- 
vey; contributed the description to the Filices in Chapman’s 
Flora of the Southern States; and as a graduation thesis, 
Filices Wrightianez et Fendleriane, including some ferns from 
Panama, collected by Messrs. Schott and Hayes. 
