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n 1837, his residence being at No. 33 Barclay street. 

 In 1853 his office was at 86 William street. He 

 was a man of happy, social temperament, of a con- 

 vivial disposition, delighting in all the good things of 

 this life, a keen sportsman and a trusty son of 

 Britain. He died at Middletown Point, N. J., on 

 August 25th, 1863, in the 73d year of his age. 



JOHN C. BEALES, M.D. 



Dr. John C. Beales was President of the Society 

 from 1849 to 1853 and again from 1858 to i860. 

 He was born in the county of Norfolk, England, in 

 the year 1804, and emigrated to Mexico in 1829, 

 where he married Dona Dolores De Soto, a de- 

 scendant of Fernando De Soto, the discoverer of 

 the Mississippi River. He was the son of John 

 Beales and Sarah Waller, his wife. He was edu- 

 cated for the medical profession and attended a 

 course of studies at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, under 

 a private tutor carefully selected for that purpose. 

 He was a student under John Kendrick, an English 

 surgeon of ability, and while at St. George's Hospi- 

 tal, London, became dresser to the celebrated Sir 

 Benjamin Brodie, and eventually graduated from 

 the Royal College of Surgeons, London, under Sir 

 Astley Cooper, in 1829, when he left England and 



