452 J. p. KTRTLAND. 



he was appointed to the honored post of physician and superintendent 

 of the McLean As3'him for the Insane at Somerville, made vacant hy 

 the resignation of Dr. Bell. This was in 1858. Here he remained 

 till the spring of 1871, when he was compelled by failing health to 

 oiFer his resignation. It was during this long term of service at Som- 

 erville tliat Dr. Tjler showed that marked executive ability, sound 

 judgment, knowledge, and skill which have made his name famous in 

 this and in other countries. His official reports while at the head of 

 the McLean Asylum have been largely quoted, and are recognized 

 by the profession as among the ablest and best in this department of 

 medical literature. 



Dr. Tyler twice visited Europe, where he enlarged and enriched 

 his knowledge of his favorite science, and was received by his con- 

 freres in the Psychological Associations of Great Bi'itaia and Ireland 

 with marked courtesy and attention. Upon his retirement from hos- 

 pital life, he took up his residence in Boston, where he soon acquired 

 a large consulting practice in his specialty. In 1871, he was appointed 

 to the chair of mental diseases in the medical department of Harvard 

 University, having previously been connected with the Medical School 

 as University lecturer on the same subject. In recent years. Dr. 

 Tyler held several important posts in connection with our city and 

 State commissions. He was also a trustee, under the will of the 

 late Seth Adams, of the proposed institution for the treatment of ner- 

 vous diseases. In all these official capacities, as well as in his profes- 

 sional and social relations, Dr. Tyler was a man of singularly pure and 

 unblemished life. He was a devoted and successful physician, an 

 exact scientist, a faithful and conscientious worker in the difficult and 

 delicate sphere of duty in which for the greater part of his life he was 

 especially called to serve. 



J. P. KIRTLAND. 



Dr. J. P. KiRTLAND died in Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 10, 1877, aged 

 eighty-five years. He was one of the last of our older naturalists like 

 Say, Audubon, and Henry, — men who were young when zoology and 

 physics were young, and who, from an inborn love of nature and an 

 enthusiasm for knowledge, were enabled to create methods and to 

 make discoveries. He was born in Connecticut, and even in boyhood 

 showed a strong taste for horticulture, so that at twelve he had a neat 

 garden of his own, and was a skilful budder and grafter. He studied 

 too the Linnaean system of botany, raised silk-worms, and began bee 



