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organized Asylums. Visiting Europe for the first time, he gave his 

 whole time to the one object of his mission, spending the day in visit- 

 ing the institutions and the evenings in the preparation of his plans, 

 giving little or no attention to other objects of interest which had so 

 many attractions for his inquisitive and enlightened mind. The results 

 of his labors have been presented to the public in various forms, partly 

 in a Report to the Trustees of the Butler Hospital, partly in a discourse 

 delivered before the membei's of the Massachusetts Medical Society 

 at their annual meeting, and in a printed volume entitled " The 

 Practical Method of Ventilating Buildings." 



Dr. Bell occupied an eminent position in relation to the jurispru- 

 dence of insanity ; and in our courts of justice his opinions were often 

 called for, and were received with entire confidence and respect. The 

 best criterion of the justness of his professional reputation is to be found 

 in the estimation in which he was held by the members of the medical 

 profession, who trusted in his wisdom and honoi-ed him with their high- 

 est gifts. 



His last days were given to the country. In the early stage of the 

 rebellion he offered his services, and was appointed surgeon of the 11th 

 Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers. At the battle of Bull Run 

 he distinguished himself, not only by his humane devotion to the sick 

 and wounded, foes as well as friends, but by the timely aid he secured 

 for many of the soldiers who were wandering about after the disas- 

 trous retreat, without direction, and suffering great privations. He was 

 subsequently made Brigade-Surgeon, and served in General Hooker's 

 division on the Lower Potomac, where, in the active discharge of his 

 duties, he was attacked with inflammation of the pericardium, and died 

 in camp on the 11th of February, 1862. His life was a beneficent 

 one ; and thousands in the community whose minds have been restored 

 from disease to health will hold him in grateful remembrance ; and yet 

 others in coming years will reap the fruits of his religious devotion to 

 the interests of benevolence and humanity. 



Cornelius Conway Felton, LL. D. was born in West Newbury, 

 INIassachusetts, jSTovember 6, 1807. His boyhood was passed amid the 

 privations incident to the embargo and the war with England, so 

 ruinous to the maritime parts of the North. He was formed by nature 

 for a scholar, and even in extreme childhood showed aptness for learn- 

 ing. But the means of his parents were very limited, and he was 

 early obliged to depend wholly on himself. The boy was an epitome 



