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CHARLES HENRY NICHOLS. 
These details had been all worked out with much care, 
based upon study and the experience of a third of a century. 
His trip to Europe just before his last illness was undertaken 
in the interest and for the furtherance of this study. His 
life was spared him to complete the plans, report them to 
the governors, and to have the satisfaction of knowing that 
they were approved and adopted. The buildings are now 
in course of construction under the supervision of his 
esteemed former assistant, Dr. Lyon, now his successor as 
superintendent of Bloomingdale asylum. 
The comparatively sudden break in the Doctor’s habitual 
excellent health was, considering his age, something of a 
surprise to his friends; but a post mortem revealed the fact 
that a malignant disease of the stomach and other abdominal 
organs existed, which explains his great suffering and the 
fatal nature of his malady. 
Doctor Nichols was proud of his profession and a sup¬ 
porter of its medical ethics. He was a member of the Medical 
Society of the District of Columbia since 1867; a member of 
the x4merican Medical Association from 1858; the Associa¬ 
tion of Medical Superintendents of Hospitals for the Insane, 
of which he was president for a number of years; a mem¬ 
ber of the Centennial International Medical Congress, w^hich 
met at Philadelphia in 1876, and also of the Ninth Inter¬ 
national Medical Congress, which met at Washington, D. C., 
in 1887. He was a member of the New York Academy of 
Medicine, the New York State Medical Society, the Medico- 
Psychological Association of Great Britain, the Philosoph¬ 
ical Society of Washington, D. C., to which he was admitted 
May 4, 1872, and of other philanthropic and scientific asso¬ 
ciations at home and abroad. 
Doctor Nichols received the honorary degree of Master of 
Arts from Union College, New York, and the honorary de¬ 
gree of Doctor of Laws from the Columbian University at 
Washington. 
The Doctor was a good writer and an occasional con¬ 
tributor to the medical journals on subjects relating to his 
