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it a permanent monument to his skilful, well-trained eye, powers of 

 patient investigation and exact observation, and that felicity of state- 

 ment in which he never failed. 



Upon this and upon the Treatise on Physiology his reputation here- 

 after will rest ; but they represent by no means all his useful activi- 

 ties. In all the higher relations of medical teaching he was .constantly 

 busied. A large number of instructive, original, and attractive ad- 

 dresses are proofs of the eagerness with which men listened to him. 



He became an Associate Fellow of the Academy in 1855, and was 

 an early member of the National Academy of Sciences. 



EZEKIEL BROWN ELLIOTT. 



Ezekiel Brown Elliott was born in Sweden, near Brockport, 

 Monroe County, New York, on July 16, 1823. His father, John B. 

 Elliott, was a doctor of medicine. In 1845 the family moved to 

 Waterloo, Seneca County, New York. Ezekiel Elliott attended the 

 High School in that place, and later, the Academy at Geneva, New 

 York, where he was prepared for admission to Hamilton College 

 which he entered in 1840. He graduated in 1844, having been a 

 diligent student, displaying marked capacity for mathematics, as- 

 tronomy, and physics. 



Subsequent to graduation from college, Mr. Elliott pursued the vo- 

 cation of teacher, until 1849, having charge of schools in Grand Rapids, 

 Michigan, Lyons and Macedon, New York, and Eastport, Maine. In 

 the last named year Mr. Elliott went to Boston and opened an office 

 as " Actuary and Electrician." It was to work in the latter capacity 

 that, during the first succeeding years, he devoted the greater part of 

 his time. I find, in Mr. Elliott's handwriting, the following account 

 of his connection with the extension of the telegraph service in the 

 Eastern States: "Just before the latter half of the year 1849, I 

 aided in opening the House Printing Telegraph line between Boston 

 and New York, taking charge of the office in Boston, having previ- 

 ously spent a few weeks in Providence, R. I., making myself familiar 

 with the operations necessary. Subsequently I became, for a short 

 time, joint proprietor of the line with Mr. W. O. Lewis, of Hartford, 

 Connecticut ; and still subsequently Mr. Lewis and myself were joint 

 superintendents. Later, I accepted the superin tendency of the Bos- 

 ton, Troy, and Albany Printing [House] line of telegraph. I relin- 

 quished my relatipn with the telegraph, I think, in 1854." Mr. 

 Elliott, however, industriously kept up his work in physics. I find 



