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generous purpose was consummated in the year 1882, when 
the donor was in the zenith of his powers, and it was his 
pleasure and pride to make constant additions to the gift 
every year during the remainder of his life. The benefac¬ 
tion was recognized by Congress in a special act of acceptance, 
and a marble bust of the donor, by J. Q. A. Ward, has been 
placed, with his full-length portrait by Andrews, in the new 
Library building. The library contains about 28,000 vol¬ 
umes, medical, historical, and miscellaneous, besides a mul¬ 
titude of unbound pamphlets, periodicals, and manuscripts. 
It remains to notice briefly the literary and scientific 
labors of Dr. Toner, and his membership in the Philosoph¬ 
ical Society. His habit of mind was instinctively that of an 
inquirer. He sought to investigate many subjects, and, 
while he cannot be styled a profound thinker or a discoverer, 
his researches in many directions were notably thorough. 
This was true especially of his historical and biographical 
labors, and the annotations made by him to the various 
journals of Washington which he published attest a wide 
and comprehensive inquiry into all that could elucidate the 
text. He gathered and published the first extended Diction¬ 
ary of Elevations of American localities. He invented an 
ingenious scheme for denoting the relative positions of places 
on the map, which was adopted by the Post Office Depart¬ 
ment in its publications. 
No full bibliography of Dr. Toner’s writings can here be 
attempted, from lack of space. More than fifty books, 
pamphlets, and articles in periodicals from his pen were 
published in his lifetime, of some of which brief mention 
may be made: 
Maternal Instinct. 1864. 
Free Parks and Camping Grounds in Summer for 
Children of the Poor in Large Cities. 1872. 
A Dictionary of Elevations, and Climatic Register of 
the United States. 1874. 
Contributions to the Annals of Medical Progress and 
Medical Education in the United States. 1874. 
