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warmth of feeling, hoping, though, of course, doubting, to meet 

 again. As I learned some time later, Mr. Bland departed before 

 another day. Daniel S. Martin, 



for the Committee. 



The Committee appointed to prepare a minute respecting the 

 death of Dr. A. C. Post, submit the following report: 



was born in this city in 180G, and died on the 7th of March last 

 at the age of eighty years. He was a true New Yorker, his 

 father having occupied the beautiful Claremont property, now 

 celebrated in connection with the burial-place of Gen. Grant, in 

 Eiverside Park; while his own entire life was passed in the city 

 of his birth, save for very brief intervals of absence. He entered 

 Columbia College before he was fourteen, and graduated in 

 medicine at the age of twenty-one from the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons. To perfect his medical training, he then went 

 abroad, and spent two years in study at several of the lead- 

 ing capitals of Europe. On his return, he established himself 

 in New York, and with the exception of two years (1835-37) in 

 Brooklyn, this city was his life-long home. 



Dr. Post's professional career has been an honor to himself 

 and to the metropolis. He early developed especial interest and 

 aptitude in the department of surgery, and became largely a 

 specialist in that branch of practice. He was one of the found- 

 ers of the medical department of the New York University, and 

 after its organization he became professor of surgery therein 

 from 1851 to 1875. He was also president of the Medical Fac- 

 ulty of the University from 1873 till the time of his death. 

 During the war, Dr. Post made an extended tour of the military 

 hospitals, a tour full of interest and fruitful in good results. 

 He was connected with many professional societies, both here 

 and in Europe; was President of the New York Academy of 

 Medicine in 1867-68, and Vice-President of the American Medi- 

 cal Association. 



Dr. Post's connection with this Society dates from his election 



