BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 11 



He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Amherst College 

 in 1838, and was a Corresponding Member of Natural History Societies of Mon- 

 treal and Boston. 



In his professional relations he was exemplary in all points of etiquette, but 

 it is to be feared, that, holding as he did the profession of medicine in the 

 highest esteem, he was morbidly sensitive to the support of quackery evinced 

 by some in whom he thought to see a wiser course of conduct. He forgot that 

 while credulity and hope remain in the human heart on one side, and craftiness 

 or folly exists on the other, quackery will always flourish. In his religious views 

 he was simple and true, but his precise opinions in regard to specific doctrines 

 were not formally avowed. This much may be asserted of him: he believed 

 that no profession compared with a life of goodness. His reverence and love of 

 God were unbounded. He had always lived among the hills, surrounded by the 

 beauty of God's works, and his soul bowed before him as the beneficent Creator 

 and loving Father. 



In reviewing the prominent facts of Dr. Deane's life, we find him, as a child 

 of poor but religious parents, drinking in, with every sense, all the beauty and 

 grandeur of nature so lavishly spread before him. Early in life, and perhaps 

 unconsciously, he makes his protest against mere physical labor, and devotes him- 

 self to the cultivation of his intellect and his tastes. He grows slowly, without 

 show or special elegance, but with a solid firmness. Turning readily to that 

 noble profession which is so capable of enriching the mind and expanding the 

 heart of its votary, he reaches the highest point of reputation with his peers, 

 his professional associates. During these professional engagements in the daily 

 walks of life, he still keeps his eyes open to the revelations of nature. Horti- 

 culture is his pleasant recreation, and a drive among the hills gives him infinite 

 delight. Suddenly he awakes to a new existence in the recognition of the sublime 

 significance wrapped up in a simple footstone near his dwelling. His highest, 

 his religious nature, is ever afterwards constantly appealed to, while bringing to 

 light specimen after specimen of these relics of a past age. Each part of his 

 life seems fitted "by natural piety" to all the others. With the exception 

 derived from the inherent imperfections of our nature, we see a beautiful and 

 symmetrical whole, a well-proportioned, stalwart intellect, guided by an honest, 

 earnest, religious soul. 



Dr. Deane was of a tall and commanding form, half a head taller than most 



