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THE AMEKICAN MONTHLY 



[September, 



ance on the late President Garfield, 

 and had been in bad health for a long 

 time. He was born in Philadelphia 

 in 1833. He was educated at the 

 Philadelphia Central High School, 

 from which he received the degree 

 of A. B. in 1850, and that of A. M. 

 in 1855. He studied medicine in the 

 medical department of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, and, after gradua- 

 ting, practised medicine in Philadel- 

 phia. He v^as a good surgeon, and, 

 in addition to his practice, gave les- 

 sons in microscopical and pathologi- 

 cal anatomy. 



' Entering the army in June, 1861, 

 he sav\^ much active service, and rose 

 rapidly. He was present at the siege 

 of Yorktown, and the battle of Wil- 

 liamsburg, Va. He was breveted 

 captain, major, and lieutenant-colo- 

 nel in the United States army for 

 faithful and meritorious services, and 

 w^as assigned to the Surgeon-Gen- 

 eral's Bureau, at Washington. He 

 was appointed chief-assistant soon 

 after. He was the medical editor of 

 the " Medical and Surgical History 

 of the Rebellion." His professional 

 labors were of distinguished charac- 

 ter, none more so than his compre- 

 hensive series of experiments in mi- 

 croscopic photography, by which the 

 profession has been placed in posses- 

 sion of records of the highest value 

 and usefulness. Among his pub- 

 lished papers are " Address on the 

 Medical Staff' of the United States 

 Amny," " Remarks on Croup and 

 Diphtheria," " Typho-Malarial Fev- 

 er — Is it a Special Type of Fever.?" 

 Transactiojts of the International 

 Medical Congress of 1876, " Re- 

 marks on Photographic Micrometry," 

 Transactions of the American Medi- 

 cal Association of 1876, "Applica- 

 tion of the Photograph to Microm- 

 etry," with special reference to the 

 micrometry of blood in criminal 

 cases, ibid.; report on " Medical 

 Literature," ibid.., 1870; report on 

 " Causes and Pathology of Pysemia," 

 (Septtemia,) ibid.., 1S66. He was 

 a member, during his I'esidence in 



Philadelphia, of the Philadelphia 

 County Medical Society ; was a 

 member of the American Medical 

 Association, and was second vice- 

 president in 1875 ; was a delegate 

 to the International Medical Con- 

 gress at Philadelphia in 1876, and 

 of the Medical Association of the 

 District of Columbia. He was mar- 

 ried ; and at the meeting of the 

 Amei'ican Medical Association, at 

 Richmond, in May, i88i,w^as elected 

 its president.' 



Microscopists will recall many 

 other contributions to his favorite 

 study, in foreign journals, and more 

 recently to this journal, and its pre- 

 decessor, the Quarterly. Of late 

 years, however, he has done but lit- 

 tle work, and his last contribution to 

 microscopy, which we can now re- 

 call, was published in the second 

 volume of this journal, page 29, en- 

 titled ' Supplementary Note to the 

 Notice of Riddell's Binocular Micro- 

 scopes.' 



He was personally know^n to many 

 who read these lines, and to all who 

 have known him well his loss will 

 be deeply felt. 



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American Society of Micro- 

 scopists. — The ofiicers of the Amer- 

 ican. Society of Microscopists have 

 reason to congratulate themselves 

 upon the large attendance of mem- 

 bers at the meeting last month. The 

 local committee deserves to be con- 

 gratulated upon the success of their 

 efforts for the entertainment of the 

 members. As a social gathering the 

 meeting was, as all accounts indicate, 

 a perfect success. The reader may 

 judge of the scientific value of the 

 proceedings from the rather full ac- 

 count published in these columns. 

 We have given place to a longer re- 

 port than usual because the daily 

 press reports are unusually good, and 

 it has seemed a subject of sufficient 

 general interest to be brought forward 

 proinptly, to the exclusion of other 

 matter. The papers read were cer- 

 tainly of some interest, but they were 



