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NAVY, UNITED STATES. 



ment of the profession, he had also a large 

 medical practice, and was for a series of years 

 the favorite accoucheur in a large circle of 

 families in New York. Unlike many practi- 

 tioners in the decline of life, he was always 

 ready to adopt any improvements in practice, 

 or any adjuvants to it, which hore the test 

 of practical trial. The introduction of an- 

 aesthetics was welcomed by him with great 

 cordiality, and perhaps no member of the 

 profession administered them more frequently, 

 or with better general effect. Though himself 

 the inventor of many admirable surgical and 

 obstetrical instruments, he always manifested 

 his gratification at any successful inventions of 

 other surgeons. In 1835, wearied by his inces- 

 sant labors, Dr. Mott visited Europe, and spent 

 two or three years in travel throughout Great 

 Britain, the Continent, and the East. He was 

 received with great distinction, his reputation 

 having preceded him. In Paris he was most 

 cordially welcomed by the great surgeons of 

 that capital, and enjoyed the special friendship 

 of the King of the French, Louis Philippe, and 

 his family. In Constantinople he was called 

 to remove a tumor from the head of the reign- 

 ing Sultan, Abdul Medjid, and was invested by 

 that sovereign with the order of Knight of 

 Medjidechi of Constantinople for his success. 

 On his return, he published the results of his 

 tour under the title of "Travels in Europe and 

 the East" (N. Y., 1842), and not long after a 

 translation of " Velpeau's Operative Surgery," 

 with extensive additions and annotations, in 

 four volumes, 8vo. Besides these works, Dr. 

 Mott had published a "Sketch of the Life of 

 "Wright Post, M. D. ; " an " Anniversary Dis- 

 course before the Graduates of the University 

 of New York" (1860); "Discourse before 

 the Binghamton (N. Y.) Inebriate Asylum ; " 

 "Eulogy on John W. Francis, M. D., before 

 the New York Academy of Medicine ; " and 



twenty-five papers on surgical topics, many of 

 them of great length, and illustrated with nu- 

 merous drawings. A selection of his clinical 

 lectures, reported by Dr. S. "W. Francis, was 

 published in 1860. In 1864, though nearly 

 eighty years of age, he accompanied several 

 other eminent physicians to Annapolis and 

 elsewhere, to investigate the condition of the 

 starved and cruelly maltreated Northern pris- 

 oners, and contributed his testimony to their 

 deplorable condition. 



Literary and scientific honors were showered 

 upon Dr. Mott with a liberal hand. The Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh conferred upon him the 

 honorary degree of M. D. ; the Regents of the 

 University of New York honored him with 

 the degree of LL. D. ; he was a Fellow of the 

 medical societies of several of the States, Fel- 

 low of the Imperial Academy of Paris, of the 

 Clinical Society of Paris, and of the Medical 

 and Chirurgical Societies of London and Brus- 

 sels. Kings and Queen's College of Physicians 

 of Ireland, which has elected but twenty new 

 members in two hundred years, elected him an 

 Honorary Fellow. He had served for many 

 years as President of the Faculty of the Uni- 

 versity Medical College, and for a considerable 

 period as President of the New York Academy 

 of Medicine, and at the time of his death was 

 President of the New York Inebriate Asylum. 

 His death, which was the result of a very brief 

 illness, was induced by the shock he ex- 

 perienced on receiving the intelligence of 

 President Lincoln's assassination. His genial 

 temper, fine constitution, and temperate habits, 

 had enabled him to bear up under his vast load 

 of care and his constant and abundant labors 

 to a good old age, with a far greater measure 

 of health and vigor than usually falls to the 

 lot of professional men ; and when at last the 

 Nestor of the profession was taken away, he 

 was widely and almost universally mourned. 



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NASSAU, a German duchy. Duke, Adolf I., 

 born July 24, 1817, succeeded his father on Au- 

 gust 20, 1839. Heir apparent, Prince "Wilhelm, 

 born April 22, 1832. The legislature of the 

 duchy consists of two Chambers, meeting an- 

 nually, and elected for the term of six years. 

 Area, 1,802 English square miles. Population 

 in 1864, 468,311. Capital, "Wiesbaden, with a 

 population of 26,573 inhabitants. As to 

 their religious denominations, the inhabitants 

 were divided, in 1863, as follows : Protestants, 

 241,334; Roman Catholics, 213,335; Men- 

 nonitcs, 104; German Catholics, 309; Israel- 

 ites, 7,252. Contingent of Nassau to the 

 Federal Army, 5,498. 



NAVY, CONFEDERATE. The surrender 

 of the naval vessels of the Confederates on the 

 rivers is related under AKMY OPERATIONS. For 



the facts relative to the ocean- steamers see 

 NAVY, U. S., and DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 

 NAVY, UNITED STATES. Until the ter- 

 mination of hostilities in the spring of 1865, 

 the six squadrons, established in the early part 

 of the war, continued to be maintained, viz. : 

 the North Atlantic Squadron, Rear-Admiral 

 D. D. Porter; the South Atlantic Squadron, 

 Rear- Admiral J. A. Dahlgren ; the East Gulf 

 Squadron, Acting Rear-Admiral 0. K. Strib- 

 ling; the West Gulf Squadron, Acting Rear- 

 Admiral II. K. Thatcher ; the Mississippi Flotilla, 

 Acting Rear- Admiral S. P. Lee; and the Poto- 

 mac Flotilla, Commander Foxhall A. Parker. 

 In addition to these there were the usual squad- 

 rons in foreign waters, which, in the summer 

 and autumn, were greatly increased in number? 

 and effectiveness. 



