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specialty and on questions of hospital construction and 
management. He was the author of the Annual Reports of 
the Bloomingdale Asylum from 1849-1851, and also of the 
Reports of the United States Government Hospital for the 
Insane from 1852 to 1877. 
Most of his papers have been printed in the American 
Journal of Insanity or in the Transactions of the Association 
of Medical Superintendents of Hospitals for the Insane ; but 
much valuable work of his may be found in the clinical 
records and history, in the records of cases treated at Bloom¬ 
ingdale and the Government Hospital for the Insane, at 
Washington. 
Doctor Nichols was twice married, first to Ellen G., daugh¬ 
ter of the Hon. John W. Maury, mayor of Washington. 
She died in 1865, leaving a daughter, who did not long sur¬ 
vive her, and one son, Maury Nichols, now a lieutenant in 
the United States Army, stationed at Willit’s Point, New 
York, at the time of his father’s death. His second wife, 
who survives the Doctor, is Sarah L., daughter of the late 
Prof. Alvan Lathrop, of Rochester, New York. 
Doctor Nichols’ remains were brought to Washington, 
D. C., and interred in a lot in the Congressional Cemetery, 
where the remains of his first wife and daughter lie buried. 
J. M. Toner. 
