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Equisetum and Isoetcs, described many species and 

 forms in these groups, and revised the matter relating 

 to them for "Gray's New Manual of Botany." Al- 

 though the Pteridophytes were his favorites, he was 

 also much interested in the flowering plants, especially 

 the grasses and orchids and a grass has been named in 

 his honor. For the past six years he has been con- 

 nected with the Ames Botanical Laboratory at North 

 Easton, Mass., and in the interests of this institution 

 he made one trip to Europe and three collecting trips 

 to Florida. On these latter he pushed his way into un- 

 trodden parts where he discovered more than a dozen 

 ferns new to the United States. 



Mr. Eaton was born at Seabrook, N, H., Nov. 20 

 1865. When he was twelve years old his family moved 

 to Salisbury, Mass., where the rest of his boyhood 

 was spent and where he became familiar with the culti- 

 vation of plants which stood him in good stead later in 

 life when failing health led him to take up the business 

 of florist and gardener for a time. He was graduated 

 from the Putnam School at Newburyport, taking the 

 four years course in two years. He then taught school 

 in Seabrook one year and in California three years. 

 Returning to the east he again took up teaching for 

 some years until he turned florist. 



Like many of our most enthusiastic botanists, Air. 

 Eaton was entirely self-taught, but his work was none 

 the less thorough on that account. He early became 

 a member of the Linnaean Fern Chapter, now the 

 American Fern Society, and was a contributor to the 

 Fern Bulletin almost from the beginning-. The bulk of 

 his scientific writings have appeared in this journal and 

 in the miscellaneous publications of the Fern Society. 



