He left what would be considered by the doctor of average experience a fortune, but his truest wealth lies in the heart of his friends. "O small beginnings, ye are great and strong, Based on a faithful heart and weariless brain: Charles Reed Pratt, M.D., Bridgeport. FRANK M. TUKEY, M.D., BRIDGEPORT. Charles Reed Pratt, M.D., was born in New Haven, Conn., on April 9, 1880, the only son of Charles and Harriett (Reed) Pratt. He was educated in the schools of his native city, graduating from the New Haven High School. His medical degree was obtained in Yale University Medical School in 1905. After serving one year as interne at the State Hospital in Middletown, Conn., he was appointed to the resident staff of the Bridgeport Hospital. Having completed the regular required service in this institution with credit, he decided to locate in Bridgeport, Conn., where he practiced his chosen profession until his death, which occurred on July 16, 1913. Dr. Pratt received an appointment to the staff of the Emergency Hospital, Department of Charities, in April, 1912, and it was in the performance of his duties in this work that he acquired the illness which eventually caused his death. A neglected throat, from which subacute ulcerative endocarditis developed, closing a promising career. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Connecticut State Medical Society and the Fairfield County Medical Association, and at his death was curator of the Bridgeport Medical Association. He married Miss Margaret E. Patterson of New Brunswick, Canada, in January, 1912, who survives him. A few brief years only were allotted to Dr. Pratt in which to pursue his life work, but they were years of promise, satisfaction and progress; years teeming with good cheer and kindness for his fellow man. He displayed a fondness for the quiet enjoyment of the duties and obligations of life, together with a keen sense of his responsibilities to his neighbor and brother. He was in every way kind-hearted, genial and companionable in disposition, and an intimate acquaintance best revealed his many lovable qualities. His character was of the highest; his personality won him confidence, friendship and affection. While Dr. Pratt's vocation was medicine, his main avocation was music, and he found it a source of unfailing recreation and keen delight. His untimely death is a distinct loss to the medical profession, to the community and to this Society. Myron Winslow Robinson, M.D., Noroton Heights. N. E. WORDIN, A.M., M.D., BRIDGEPORT. Myron Winslow Robinson was born in the town of Lebanon, May 4, 1839. His father was William Robinson, descendant of John Robinson of early American history, minister of the Pilgrim Fathers. His mother was Sophia Robbins. The greater part of his life was spent among rural scenes. His early school training was at the Academy at Ellington, Tolland County, the population of which town was 1,452. He began the study of medicine at Hebron in 1858, and graduated at the Berkshire Medical College in 1860. This college, among the earlier medical institutions of New England, has now passed out of existence, and among the nine hundred members of the Connecticut State Medical Society there is only one remaining who received his diploma from it. It may be noticed that the curriculum of this institution embraced only two years. We have indeed made progress in medical education. Dr. Robinson went back to Hebron to begin the practice of medicine, although the town at that time could not have had a population of more than a thousand, scattered over the hills. It may not seem strange then, that with the military spirit burning at fever heat throughout the land he became fired, like al! the rest, and went to the war. He enlisted as a private in Company C, Eighteenth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers. Connecticut had at that time, as an inducement to men to enlist, appealed to local pride and had adopted the method of raising regiments by counties. The Eighteenth Regiment was the New London County regiment, Tolland County probably being too small to undertake the raising of a regiment by itself. The Colonel of the Eighteenth was William G. Ely of Norwich. Strangely enough and by quite a coincidence, Colonel Ely was taken from the Sixth Regiment and made Colonel of the Eighteenth, while Dr. Robinson, who enlisted in the Eighteenth, afterward appeared as Assistant Surgeon of the Sixth. The Captain of Robinson's company, C, was Isaac H. Bromley, who afterward became a distinguished litterateur, noted as a writer on the staff of the New York Tribune, and a delightful essayist. Doctor Charles Monro Carleton was the Surgeon of this regiment. The name of Dr. Carleton was at that time paramount among the medical men of that portion of the State and shortly after his arrival near the scene of action he was made Acting Brigade Surgeon of Hospitals and Defences at Baltimore. The Record of the Eighteenth Regiment says that Myron W. Robinson was discharged upon August 16, and enlisted in the United States Army, November 16. By this he gained a promotion to the much more agreeable position of Hospital Steward, and in the regular army service. Here, of course, his medical knowledge came greatly to his help, as it was his medical knowledge which had gained the position for him, and it was, too, in the direct line of his life work. But this was only the beginning of further promotion. Dr. Samuel McClellan of New Haven, the Second Assistant Surgeon of the Sixth Regiment, was discharged from the service January 6, 1863, and May II of the same year Dr. Robinson was commissioned to fill his place. Dr. F. L. Dibble, Surgeon of the Sixth, left the Army at the expiration of his term of service and Dr. Robinson was commissioned Surgeon in full, on December 21. He was mustered out of the service with his regiment at Raleigh, N. C., August 21, 1865. His period of service in the army, therefore, embraced a period of three years and three days. With the Sixth Regiment he experienced hard and trying service. Two months after he joined the regiment the men were called upon for and were engaged in the terrible night assault upon Battery Wagner on Morris Island. In that encounter one hundred and forty-one of the regiment were killed, wounded or missing. Upon May 6, 1863, the regiment landed at Bermuda Hundred and was engaged in the operations about Richmond, especially Drury's Bluff, Deep Bottom and in the trenches about Petersburg, until near the close of the war. Later, it was detached and sent, under General Terry, against Fort Fisher. This, the largest earth fortification in the Southern |