THE AMERICAN 



MONTHLY 



MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL 



Vol. XVIII. JULY, 1896. No. 7 



Sketch of the Life of Arthur Mead Edwards, M. D. 



BY C. W. SMILEY. 

 [with Frontispiece.] 



Professor Edwards was bom in 1836 and is consequently 

 in his sixty-first year. His fatlier, Charles Edwards, was 

 an English lawyer, — his mother a descendant of Sir James 

 Edward Smith, the first president and founder of the 

 Linn»an Society. 



Dr. Edwards was early interested in chemistry and 

 became professor of Chemistry and Microscopy in the 

 Women's Medical College, New York, and in the College 

 of Pharmacy in New York, He lectured in chemistry at 

 Dartmouth College. 



He studied geology under Professor Agassiz, botany 

 under Professors Gray and Torrey at Harvard and Colum- 

 bia. He became assistant to the latter in the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. He also 

 studied geology under Professor Newberry, after which 

 'he was assistant in chemistry to Professors St. John, Le- 

 Conte and Doremus. 



He was attached to the Northwest Boundary Survey as 

 assistant in microscopy to Mr. George Gibbs. Latter he 

 assisted Prof, J. D. Whitney in the State Geological 

 Survey of California and he aided Professor C. H. 

 Hitchcock "in the Geological Sutvey of New Hamp- 

 shire. 



Dr. Edwards founded the American Microscopical 



