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was professor of materia medica at Permsyl- 

 vania from 1835 until 1850, and professor of 

 the theory and practise of medicine until 

 1860, when he resigned. Dr. Horatio Charles 

 Wood, Jr., is professor of pharmacology and 

 therapeutics, having succeeded to one of the 

 chairs held by his father when he retired. He 

 is survived by these children : James L. Wood, 

 Milford, Pa.; Dr. George B. Wood, Dr. Ho- 

 ratio Charles Wood, Jr., and Miss Sarah K. 

 Wood. 



Dr. Wood was 'born in Philadelphia, January 

 13, 1841, a son of Horatio Curtis and Eliza- 

 beth Head Bacon Wood. His first American 

 ancestor, Richard Wood, emigrated from Bris- 

 tol, England, in 1682, settling first in Phila- 

 delphia and afterwards in New Jersey. Ho- 

 ratio C. Wood was educated at Westtown 

 School and Friends' Select School, and was 

 graduated from the medical department of the 

 University of Pennsylvania in 1862. 



In his youth he developed a fondness for 

 natural hisitory and 'before studying medicine 

 became a worker in the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, distinguishing himseK by his orig- 

 inal work. After spending several years in 

 hospitals. Dr. Wood began private practise in 

 1865, making a specialty of therapeutics and 

 materia medica, meainwhile continuing his nat- 

 ural history studies and publishing numerous 

 papers on this branch of science, especially 

 cell botany. In his early life Dr. Wood also 

 was a student of entomology and published 

 thirteen original memoirs upon the subject. 

 He abandoned these studies after 1873 and 

 devoted his whole attention to medicine. 



He was appointed professor of Jbotany in 

 1866 in the auxiliary faculty of medicine in 

 the university which had been established and 

 endowed by his uncle. Dr. George B. Wood, 

 and held this position ten years. He also made 

 a special study of nervous diseases and upon 

 the organization of the University Hospital 

 in 1874 was appointed clinical lecturer, be- 

 coming professor in 1875 and retaining this 

 chair until 1901. He also was professor of 

 materia medica and therapeutics from 1875 

 until he retired. 



Dr. Wood was the author of numerous med- 



ical and scientific works including " Thermic 

 Fever or Sunstroke," 1872 ; " Materia Medica 

 and Therapeutics," 1874; "Brain Work and 

 Overwork," 1880 ; and " Nervous Diseases and 

 their Diagnosis," 1874. In cooperation with 

 Professors Bennington and Sadtler he revised 

 the United States Dispensatory. 



Lafayette College conferred upon him the 

 degree A.M., in 1881 and LL.D. in 1883. He 

 received the degree LL.D. from Yale in 1889 

 and from the University of Pennsylvania in 

 1904. He was a member of many learned so- 

 cieties including the National Academy of 

 Sciences, was president of the American 

 Pharmacopoeial convention from 1890 until 

 1910, and was president of the College of 

 Physicians in 1902 and 1903. 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



WATER-POWER AND DARTMOOR 



As similar problems must frequently be 

 solved in the United States, the following may 

 be quoted from Nature: 



The proposal to develop electrical energy from 

 water-power on Dartmoor has led to a strong pro- 

 test against interference with the amenity of the 

 moor as appreciated fcy the lovers of solitary 

 places. Mr. Eden PhiUpotts first directed atten- 

 tion to the matter by a letter in the Times of De- 

 cember 10, in which he called on the Duchy of 

 Cornwall, the landlords of Dartmoor, to act 

 quickly "and help to create a body of Parliamen- 

 tary opinion; otherwise the destructive and ill- 

 considered enterprise may receive sanction from an 

 indifferent House of Commons next session. ' ' A 

 Plymouth correspondent supplied to the Times of 

 December 23 an account of the scope of the pro- 

 posed scheme, and on later days other writers ex- 

 pressed their strong disapproval of the project 

 from local, engineering, or esthetic points of view. 



The scheme of the Dartmoor and District Hy- 

 dro-electric Supply Company is briefly to utilize 

 the great rainfall and high altitude of Dartmoor 

 in the generation of electricity at several power 

 stations situated on different streams, to convey 

 the current to the neighboring towns and villages 

 for ordinary municipal purposes, and possibly to 

 erect industrial establishments where current 

 might be used for electrolytic or power purposes. 

 It is claimed that this work will furnish needed 

 employment for the population of the district, 



