806 ROBERT AMORY 



of Strasbourg. He also accepted the editorship of the section on 

 poisons in the third edition of the Medical Jurisprudence of ^Yharton 

 and Stille. In connection with Professor E. S. Wood, and later with 

 Dr. R. L. Emerson he edited the chapters on poisons in the subse- 

 quent editions of this treatise. 



He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences in 1871 and in 1875 presented a communication on photo- 

 graphs of the solar spectrum which he had made with the assistance 

 of Mr. J. G. Hubbard who then was working in his laboratory. Com- 

 munications also were presented by him on the action of dry, silver 

 bromide collodion to light rays of different frangibility and on the 

 theory of absorption bands in relation to photography and chemistry. 



In 1874 he resigned his professorship and devoted his time largely 

 to medical practice and to such laboratory studies as his various 

 obligations would permit. He was appointed the medical examiner 

 of his district, held various positions in the medical staff of the IMassa- 

 chusetts Volunteer Militia and in 1880 was President of the National 

 Decennial Convention for the Revision of the United States Pharma- 

 copoeia. During this period he contributed a paper on the haema- 

 tinic properties of dialyzed iron, with Dr. G. K. Sabine made a study 

 of an epidemic of typhoid fever in Brookline and, in 1886, published 

 a treatise on Electrolysis and its therapeutical and surgical use. 



For a number of years he had been in the habit of spending his 

 summers in Bar Harbor, Me., where he also practised medicine. Then 

 having become interested in the telephone he was persuaded to with- 

 draw from medical practice and to devote himself to commercial affairs. 

 He identified himself with telephone, electricity and gas, and became 

 President and Manager of the Brookline Gas Company, from which 

 he retired in 1898. 



Dr. Amory, while engaged in scientific pursuits, was an earnest, 

 diligent worker, with high ideals. He gave liberally of his time, 

 the freedom of his laboratory and apparatus for the encouragement 

 of others. He was a pioneer in the introduction into this country 

 of the study of the physiological action of drugs by experiments on 

 animals and apart from his indiA'idual researches thus contributed 

 to the advancement of exact knowledge. 



R. H. FiTZ. 



