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Medical School two years before. Hence he was one of the "old 

 guard" who passed through the trying times of the Civil War, 

 in which he served as surgeon of the Fifth Minnesota regiment, 

 the exciting times of the early seventies, when the fate of the 

 falls of St. Anthony hung in the balance, the loud and busy times 

 of the lumber industry, the years of the rivalry between the "twin 

 cities," the expansion of the flour industry and the rapid growth 

 of the northwest in all educational and political influence. In 

 all these things, so far as they came into his life, and that was 

 often, he bore his part with steadfast courage and ability. As 

 chairman of the section of Archeology and Botany he made sev- 

 eral reports, which are published in our Bulletin. He was inter- 

 ested in the question of public health and of a pure water supply. 

 He was president in 1883, corresponding secretary in 1884, and 

 trustee again in 1887. He died in Minneapolis April 9, 1907, at 

 the age of 82 years, thus ending a long life filled with public 

 usefulness and with the constant regard and love of his fellow 

 citizens. In the minutes of the Academy is a tribute to his worth, 

 which ends as follows : "His gentle, kindly heart and his alert 

 scientific intellect, in the midst of a busy physician's life, will 

 always be held in affectionate remembrance and civic honor." 



Dr. M. D. Stoneman, like Drs. Johnson and Simpson, resided 

 in St. Anthony, having settled there in 1863. He was born in 

 Virginia and graduated at the Pennsylvania College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons in 1838. His death occurred at Minneapolis 

 in March, 1875, at the age of 60 years, but two years after the 

 organization of the Academy. He was made a member of the 

 committees on Mineralogy and Chemistry and of the Museum in 

 1873, but he never took part in any of the meetings. He had 

 quite a valuable collection of minerals and fossils. The former he 

 gave to the Academy and the latter to the University of Minne- 

 sota. Among the fossils the writer found a new species of trilo- 

 bite, which has been named from the donor Hathyurus Stonc- 

 mani. 



Dr. Adolphus F. Elliott was born at Corinna, Maine, in 

 1836. He was an early settler in Minneapolis, coming here one 

 year after his brother Wyman, the well-known horticulturist, 

 viz.: in 1855. After a long and lucrative medical practice he 

 went to California in poor health. Returning, however, with- 



