Vill OBITUARY NOTICES. 
and a frequent contributor to journals of medicine. His own books 
are Zhe Transfusion of Blood and The Surgery of the Pennsylvania 
Hospita/, together with a history of the latter institution. He was 
actively engaged in public school work in this city, and for many 
years was a member of the Board’s most important committees. 
He was a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences and of the 
Union League. He died May 20, 1903, at Cape May. 
Rev. Henry CLay TRUMBULL was born in Connecticut, June 8, 
1830. He received his education in Williston Seminary. 
In 1858 he became a missionary for the State Sunday School 
Association, which had its headquarters in Hartford. He was a 
chaplain in the Tenth Regiment in the Civil War. In 1863 he was 
taken prisoner before Fort Wagner and sent to the Charleston jail, 
later to Libbey Prison, where he was held for several months. 
Five of his books treat of his army experiences. They were 
Some Army Soldiers, The Knightly Soldier, A Biography of Major 
Lenry Ward Camp, The Captured Scout of the Army of the James 
and War Memoirs of an Army Chaplain. 
At the end of the war he returned to Sunday School work. In 
1866 he received the degree of M.A. from Yale, and in 188r the 
degree of D.D. from Lafayette College, and the same degree from 
the University of New York in 1882. In 1875 he took charge of 
the Sunday School Times of this city, and during his editorial career 
wrote a number of books of a devotional character. He traveled in 
Egypt, Arabia and Syria, where he studied the track of the Exodus 
and identified the site of Kadash-Barnia. Following this sojourn 
abroad he prepared a number of volumes, some of which bear these 
titles, Zhe Zen Commandments as a Covenant of Love, Light on the : 
Story of Jonah, Subjects in Oriental Social Life, The Threshold 
Covenant, The Covenant of Saul, etc., etc. He died in this city on 
‘December 8th. 
Pror. RopeERT H. THURSTON was born in Providence, R. I. In 
1859 he graduated from Brown University with the degree of Civil 
Engineer. He served throughout the Civil War, beginning in 1861, 
being finally promoted to the position of chief engineer of one of 
the monitors. For six years he was an instructor in the United 
States Naval Academy at Annapolis. In 1871 he became Professor 
of Mechanical Engineering in the Stevens Institute of Technology. 
