10 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



It will not be here attempted to give an analysis of these papers. Suffice 

 it to say, that in them he alludes not only to bird-tracks, but to impressions 

 made by many different kinds of the lower animals, even to those of insects 

 and crustaceans. 



During all the time he was preparing these papers he was constantly making 

 drawings of new specimens, hoping that at some future day the complete whole 

 might be published as the crowning labor of his life. Nothing could be more 

 touching than the quiet but determined manner with which he went on daily 

 accumulating his facts. Utterly unable to see how, with his small means, the 

 work could ever see the light, he still struggled on in a sublime faith. The 

 amount of labor he performed seems quite marvellous when we remember that 

 he was constantly engaged in an extensive practice, which spared to him no 

 certain hours of study. Called hither and thither over an extent of twenty or 

 thirty miles radius, surrounded by quackery that gnawed at and traduced him ; 

 conscious of his powers, yet morbidly sensitive to the idea that he was not duly 

 appreciated by some whom he respected, it was, doubtless, with a sense of divine 

 consolation that he turned to these relics of a past era, and with a generous 

 ambition labored to present them to his fellows. As La Grange of old sought 

 "in his peaceful mathematics" a relief from the world, so our friend found, in 

 this beautiful study, a never-foiling resource from the corroding cares of earth. 



In 1836, Dr. Deane married Miss Mary Clapp Russell, of Greenfield. He was 

 eminently a domestic man, a most tender husband and loving parent. His towns- 

 men will long remember his upright, manly intercourse with them as neighbor, friend, 

 and physician. Though a man of few words, he was eminently genial and social. 

 He possessed to a remarkable degree a love of fun and a power of mimicry, 

 ordinarily masked, however, by the graver tones of his character. In his political 

 views and actions he was clear and reliable. Without offensively thrusting his 

 opinions upon any one, he was no coward in the utterance of any sentiment he 

 thought right. Throughout adult life he was a consistent and fearless defender 

 of the rights of man. His taste for the sister arts of music and painting was 

 admirable and wholly natural, for he had no instructors. From boyhood, he used 

 his pencil and his pen in free but extraordinarily accurate sketches. We hazard 

 nothing in saying, that, had he chosen either music or drawing as a profession, 

 he must necessarily have taken a first rank among the professors of those twin 

 handmaids of Beauty. He has left some few rhythmical attempts, torsos, so to 

 speak, in the divine art of Poesy. 



