Hon. Martin Brimmer of the class of '49 died at his Boston residence Tuesday night, after an illness of three weeks. Mr. Brimmer came of representative Boston family. While in College he was a prominent society man and graduated well up in the scholarship roll of his class. After graduating from college he studied law but was never a practitioner. He devoted his life to the improvement of society and politics and had also an earnest interest in educational affairs. He served Harvard University as a fellow of the Corporation. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Boston Art Club and a fellow of the American Academy. He was also a member of several social clubs and, up to the time of his last illness, took great interest in the proceedings of all these organizations.

During the last thirty years of his life his best efforts were devoted to the promotion of art and of higher education. He was a distinguished patron of art and as a connoisseur was widely known in this country and in Europe. He was president of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and by virtue of this office had a place on the board created by statute to pass upon the suitability in point of art of public monuments to be erected in Boston. He was also a collector of paintings and owned some of the finest works of art in America.

He was an enthusiastic student of archaeology and spent much time and money among the ruins of the Old World in his researches. He was the author of a work on Egyptian Archaeology.