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OUR CONTRIBUTORS. 



VII. 



Josiah N. Hall, M. D., was born in 1859, at 

 North Chelsea, Mass., received the degree of B. 

 S. from the Massachusetts Agricultural College 

 at Amherst, in 1878, and that of M. D. from 

 Harvard University in 1882. After serving an 

 eighteen months' term as house physician in the 

 Boston City Hospital, he located at Sterling, 

 Colorado, where for some years he was employed 

 by the Union Pacific and Burlington and Mis- 

 souri River Railways as assistant surgeon. In 

 1892 he located in Denver, Colorado, assuming 

 the position of secretary of the State Board of 

 Medical Examiners, of which he had been presi- 

 dent in 1890. Pie now occupies the chair of 

 materia medica and therapeutics in the Univer- 

 sity of Colorado. 



J. N. HALL, M.U. 



Plis medico-legal work has been almost en- 

 tirely in the line of gunshot wounds as related to 

 jurisprudence. His four years' training in mili- 

 tary science at Amherst, under the instructions 

 of officers detailed from the regular army, his 

 location on the frontier, where firearms are 

 largely used, together with the fact that he is an 

 ardent sportsman, have combined to lead him 

 to investigate this subject carefully. 



He is a member of various state and local 

 societies, of the American Medical Association, 

 the National Association of Railway Surgeons, 

 and the Medico-Pegal Society of New York. 



His article in this issue of Recreation, on 

 "The Vulnerable Spot," indicates his careful 

 training and systematic course of investigation 

 in his special field of work. 



] A CURIOUS RELIC. 



Livingston, Mont. 

 Editor Recreation : 



Several years ago while in Sunlight Basin, 

 Fremont county, Wyoming, where I have 

 mining interests, I pulled out from camp one day 

 to round up an antelope, or other game, as the boys 

 were out of meat. After several hours hunting 

 and not finding fresh signs of antelope, I thought 

 I would go into the thick timber and try my luck 

 on a black-tail deer. So picketing my saddle 

 horse I struck out for a small lake near the sum- 

 mit, about three miles distant. Arriving at the 

 lake I circled it cautiously, striking fresh signs 

 that led up the mountain. I followed perhaps 

 half a mile up a steep gulch. The deer had 

 evidently determined on crossing the divide; this 

 I had agreed on too and so kept on, keeping a 

 sharp lookout ahead. When about 150 yards or 

 so from the top of the ridge, I noticed daylight 

 and what seemed to be a small park. At the 

 same time I saw what appeared to be a mountain 

 sheep. I got down on my knees and looked 

 carefully from behind a large tree. From what I 

 could see. I was satisfied it was *' Old Ram" lying 

 down. Picking up my rifle I began crawling on 

 my hands and knees to obtain a good position to 

 shoot from. I crawled through brush, mud, 

 snow and everything a fellow happens into when 



in a position of this kind, but had determined 

 tokill the ram, whether or no. Finally I came 

 to a little point of elevation and taking an- 

 other look through the trees, I could still see the 

 old fellow's horns, but could not see his head, on 

 account of the thick timber. Thinking it useless to 

 turn loose at him from this point 1 crawled on to 

 get a better position. Suddenly, about the time 



