224 Washington Street. Boston 8, Mass. 



(Entered at the Post Office, Boston, Mass., 

 as Second Class Mail Matter) 



THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1920 j 



RECENT DEATHS 



FORMERLY RESIDED |Jf M AJjD EM 



Frank Shipley Collins, nn Expert Ac- 

 countant, Was an Authority on Bot- 

 any and Research Work 



Frank Shipley Collins, formerly for 

 many years a resident of Maiden, *»Ji£ihe 

 his home was at J.T Dexter street. di-1 

 <-r. Wednesday in New Haven Conn n 

 his seventy-third year. We ," was born 

 in Charlestown, but went .> Maiden to 

 live when a boy, and he wis a men-be- 

 if the first .class, that of 18*43, «„ b 0 

 /'vaduated from the Malde.i With Kchooi. 



He later became an expert accountant 

 ?nd for ti'.iny years was em»:nw.l ,TS 

 such by the Boston Rubber Sho ■*' 

 pany. Mr. Collins was of Cape Cod stoc K 

 and on his retirement from business 'i 

 went to the Cape to end his days, as lie 

 thought, but the United States Rubber 

 Company induced him 'to return to Ji's 

 former vocation in expert accountancy, 

 and he was thus employed at the time 

 of his death. 



Mr. Collins was deeply interested in 

 botany and gave his leisure time to re- 

 search in this science, and he was lonfc" 

 considered an authority on alga;, upon 

 which branch of botanical study he had 

 written considerably. He belonged to 

 the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences and to the Middlesex Institute, 

 of which, many years ago. he was secre- 

 tary. Tufts College gave Mr. Collins 

 the degree of Ph. D. He is survived by 

 his wife and two sons, Frank Collins 

 and Richard Collins. 



