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as ever, a quick responsiveness. Now, as always, 

 his home was the best place he knew. When act- 

 ive, he used to rush upstairs to the children, for 

 whom he made toys and planned tearless paths 

 in learning's stony ways. Music, modelling, bot- 

 any were his refreshment. His religion, not for 

 speech, discussion or profession, was that of a 

 serious man living very near the realities of life! 

 Unforgotten to the end, though long inactive, he 

 died in January, 1897, an d was buried in the 

 beautiful Mount Auburn Cemetery, which he 

 himself had originated. 



Abridged from Surgical Memoirs and Other Essays. Dr. J. G. 

 Mumford, New York, 1908. 



Memoir of Jacob Bigelow. G. E. Ellis. Cambridge, 1880. 



Boston M. and S. Jour., 1879, 3. s., xvii. Am. J. Sci. and Arts, 

 1879. New Haven, 3. s., xvii. 



