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The Physiological and Therapeutical Action of the Bromide of Potassium 

 and Bromide of Ammonium. By Edward H. Clarke, M.D., and Robert 

 Amort, M.D. Boston, 1872. 



Sex in Education ; or, A Fair Chance for the Girls. Boston, 1873. 



Tlie Building of a Brain. Boston, 1874. 



Visions: A Study of False Sight (Pseudopia). AVith an Introduction and 

 Memorial Sketch by Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D. Boston, 1878. 



The last is the work referred to as having occupied much of his 

 time during his illness ; this has beeu published since his death. 



In addition to his professional work and his published writings, Dr. 

 Clarke took an active part in relation to various matters of general 

 interest, especially the Public Park question and all subjects connected 

 with the health of the city. Immediately after resigning his Professor- 

 ship, he was chosen a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard 

 University, and shared in their deliberations up to a late period of his 

 mortal illness. 



This seems to be the well-filled record of a busy life of fifty-seven 

 years. But, without knowing the great labor he spent upon the daily 

 record of his cases, much would be passed by uureckoned. Some 

 scores of large volumes containing these records have been burned, as 

 he directed they should be, by his representatives since his death. To 

 him they were of incalculable practical value, but the pathological 

 biography of his fellow-citizens was never meant for public in- 

 spection. 



JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY. 



John Lothrop Motley died in Dorchester, England, May 29, 

 1877. 



He was born in Boston, April 15, 1814, and took his degree at 

 Harvard College in 1831. He afterwards studied at the universities 

 of Gottingen and Berlin, and on his return home went through a 

 course of legal study, and was admitted to the Boston bar. In 1839, 

 he published a novel, which made but slight impression, though it bore 

 evidence of powers that were fully recognized at a later time. He was 

 secretary of the American legation to Russia for a few months, and 

 then came back to a life without much literary or other purpose, until 

 about the year 1845, when he determined to write a History of the 

 Netherlands, or more particularly of the revolt against Spain. " I had 

 not first made up my mind," he afterwards wrote, " to write a history, 

 and then cast about to take up a subject. My subject had taken me 

 up, drawn me on, and absorbed me into itself. It was necessary for 

 me, it seemed, to write the book I had been thinking much of, even if 



