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surgery was in the Surgery of Diseases of Bones and Joints. Many 

 important contributions to surgical literature have been made by Dr. 

 Nichols, and he left unfinished portions of a work on Surgical pathol- 

 ogy in cooperation with Professor Mallory. It is expected that the 

 work will be finished. 



The culminating effort in Dr. Nichols' career may be considered 

 his directorship of two Hospital Units in France during the late war. 

 The first was somewhat unusual and was organized and supported 

 under the authority of Harvard University before the United States 

 went into the war. The command was enrolled and served under 

 British control and commission, though still retaining American citi- 

 zenship, an arrangement especially made by the British government 

 and involved at the outset tact and firmness on the part of the director 

 in bringing a raw medical group, well trained for professional work in 

 civic life, but needing the regulations under military routine. 



After America went into the great war, Dr. Nichols headed another 

 Hospital Unit, organized from the draft of the Boston City Hospital. 

 This service continued until the end of the war. 



Like many others, some time was needed before Dr. Nichols recov- 

 ered from the war strain. He was, however, at the time of his death, 

 again in full promise of his unusual abilities with every expectation of 

 many years of useful activity. His death deprived the profession of 

 one of its valued leaders. 



Dr. Nichols is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Nichols, 

 and by a son and daughter. 



Edward H. Bradford. 



EDWARD JAMES YOUNG (1829-1906). 



Fellow in Class III, Section 2, 1870. 



Edward James Young was born in Boston April 1, 1829, and died in 

 Waltham, June 23, 1906. His father was Dr. Alexander Young, minis- 

 ter of the New South church in Boston, but more widely known for his 

 very useful books "Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers" and "Chron- 

 icles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay." In 

 1835 he entered the Chauncy-Hall School, under the principalship of 



