OBITUARY.

Rev. David Greene Haskins of the class of '37, rector of St. Bartholomew's Mission, Cambridgeport, died yesterday. He was born in Boston, May 1, 1818, the second son of Ralph Haskins, a well-known Boston merchant, and his wife, Rebecca-daughter of David Greene. He was graduated at Harvard in 1837, in the same class with Charles Theodore Rusell, Judge Nathaniel Holmes, Rev. John Weiss, Dr. Henry J. Bigelow, Horatio Hale, Surgeon General William J. Dale and David H. Thoreau. He studied at Andover Theological Seminary, and served as preceptor of Portland Academy, Portland, Mc., in 1841-44. In 1847 he was ordained to the Episcopal ministry. He established churches in Medford, Brighton and Arlington. From 1853 to 1863 he was principal of a young ladies' school in Boston. He received the degree of S. T. D. from Columbia College in 1877. He published a volume of selections from the scriptures, a French and English First Book, a memoir on the maternal ancestors of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many smaller works.