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By the liberality of an aliiinnus of the University of Vermont, of 

 which Mr. IMarsh was for a time one of the Trustees, this precious 

 collection of books has been secured for that institution. It is to be 

 regretted tliat these literary treasures were not deposited whei-e the 

 largest numbers congregate of those who would turn them to good 

 account. Yet, while we deplore the limitation of its usefulness, we 

 cannot but be glad that Mr. Marsh's library, unlike that of tiie late 

 Mr. Benfey and other valuable collections, has found a large-minded 

 and large-hearted man who would not allow its collective force to be 

 destroyed. 



ISAAC RAY. 



Isaac Rat, M. D., LL. D., was born at Beverly, Mass., January 

 16, 1807, and died in Philadelphia, March 31, 1881. 



Dr. Ray graduated from Phillips Academy and Bowdoin College, 

 teaching school during vacations in order to help defray his expenses. 

 He took his decree of Doctor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical 

 .School in 1827, and at once began practice in Portland, Maine, where 

 he was married in 1831. Soon after, removing to Eastport in the 

 same State, he published (in 1838) his " Medical Jurisprudence of In- 

 sanity," a book of which the sixth edition has recently appeared, and 

 which has remained for more than forty years the leading work in the 

 English language upon that subject. 



Dr. Ray was Medical Superintendent of the State Hospital for 

 the Insane at Augusta, Maine, from 1841 to 1846. He was then ap- 

 pointed to take charge of the building of the Butler Hospital for the 

 Insane at Providence, R. I., of which he was the head for twenty 

 years after its completion. He was also for a few months in charge of 

 the McLean Asylum at Somerville, Mass., but failing health com- 

 pelled him to seek a milder climate, and the last fourteen years of his 

 life were spent in Philadelphia, very much saddened toward the end by 

 the death of his only surviving child, a son, practising medicine, and hav- 

 ing hie office in his father's house. Dr. Ray was one of the organizers 

 of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions 

 for the Insane, in 1844, and was its President from 1855 to 1859. 

 He was a most careful student, having visited Europe to examine the 

 hospitals there, and a most assiduous writer upon the various subjects 

 of interest in his branch of the medical profession. His " Mental Hy- 

 giene," a series of lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute in 

 Boston, published in 1863, and his "Contributions to Mental Pathol- 



