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from Williams College in 1825 : president of the medical 

 Society of the State of New York in 1843, and for several 

 years a manager in the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. 



Dr. Wing spent thirty-eight of the forty-one years of 

 his professional life in Albany. He read much, and his 

 memory was accurate and retentive. His business habits 

 were extremely laborious and methodical. In social life 

 he was gay and buoyant, and his fund of anecdote and 

 information almost exhaustless. He was a skillful phy- 

 sician, and a model of propriety and kindness towards his 

 patients. He was popular in the profession throughout 

 the state. 



He died in Hartford, Connecticut, on the sixth of Sep- 

 tember, 1862, in the sixth-fifth year of his age. His oldest 

 son, Matthew Gregory Wing, a graduate of Yale College 

 in 1847, on account of ill health resided in the south of 

 Europe several years, and finally died at Santa Fe, New 

 Mexico, on the fifth of July, 1860, at the age of thirty-four 

 years. 



Adjourned. 



May 3d, 1864. 



Seventeen members present. On motion of Dr. Howard 

 Townsend, Mr. A. E. Brown, in the absence of the pre- 

 sident, took the chair. 



The Rev. A. S. Twombly, according to previous an- 

 nouncement, read the paper of the evening on the sub- 

 ject of Oriental Oddities. Mr. Twombly said that he 

 intended no harm to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in these 

 caricatures of their descendants, any more than the eagle 

 meant disrespect to the mother owl in swallowing her 

 progeny, a scrawny set, so unlike her description of them ; 

 for the men of the east retained the costumes, manners, and 

 memories of patriarchal days, yet in comparison with 

 modern customs and ideas they are degenerate and utterly 

 unworthy of their origin. 



