His devotion to his Alma Mater never waned, and he bequeathed to the University his medical library, described by Prof. Van Name, the Librarian of the University, as "an unusually valuable collection of about 500 volumes; in it are included Virchow's Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie, complete to 1897, in 150 volumes, Hebra's Atlas der Hautkrankheiten, and other costly publications." During his undergraduate days he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and when, in 1883, the third senior society, known as Wolf's Head, was founded, he was elected an honorary member. He was also a member of the University Clubs of New York and Boston, and of the Graduates Club of New Haven.

He especially appreciated fine music and contributed liberally toward the production of good music in the city. He had an excellent and well-cultivated voice, and years ago took an active part in musical organizations.

He was fond of out-of-door life, and was particularly devoted to riding and driving. When his practice was most active, he was in the habit of rising early, and driving into the neighboring towns to see patients, before most of his professional neighbors had commenced their breakfasts. His horses were always carefully selected, and his traps and carriages were always noticeable for their elegance. He was a member of the New Haven Lawn Club, and of the New Haven Country Club.

His personality was striking. He was always immaculate in dress, cheerful and cordial in manner, entertaining and instructive in conversation, a faithful and helpful friend, a public-spirited citizen and a leader in the most exclusive society.

As a physician his reputation among educated and intelligent people, both of New Haven and of surrounding towns and neighboring cities, was unsurpassed. He was one of the first in New Haven to introduce into gen

eral practice modern scientific methods, as they were taught in the German Universities. Outside of his manual dexterity in the treatment of cases within the domain of his special fields of Laryngology and Otology, his great success in the management of patients seems to have been due to his skill in devising and carrying out methods of restorative treatment. By the combined use of stimulating and tonic medicaments, with the most easily assimilable and most nutritious forms of nourishment, prescribed with the most minute directions as to how much of, and how often, each should be taken, he brought new hope to many who had abandoned themselves to chronic invalidism; but who, while carrying out the regime which he had directed, found their strength returning, their weight increasing and their usefulness being restored.

FRANK BROWNLIE NEWTON, M.D.,

STAFFORD SPRINGS.

E. P. FLINT, M.D.,

POCKVILLE.

Frank B. Newton was born at Stafford Springs, December twenty-third, 1874, and died February nineteenth, 1903. He became known by, and associated with, the people as only one can who passes his whole life in his native town. As a child, a favorite with his playfellows, he won their respect and esteem, which he retained until his youth, his circle of acquaintances and friends steadily enlarging.

Of attractive personal appearance, his cheerful temperament and bright mental qualities gave promise of a more than ordinary career.

He early developed a love of nature and the beautiful, and the more exact and exacting researches of science soon became an attraction. This bent decided the question of his future, for ere he had hardly emerged from boyhood he had chosen medical practice for his life work.

His fondness for the study of the natural sciences, his normal desire to solve for himself the occult mysteries of nature, brought rapidly a mental poise and depth, and when only eighteen years of age, he began the study of his chosen profession at Harvard.

His course there was followed by two years at Bellevue, and he graduated at the University of Vermont in 1899, and the same year passed the examinations before the State Board at New Haven. He located for practice in his native place in company with his father, C. B. Newton, M.D., who has been for nearly half a century a most successful and respected physician, and is an exPresident of the Connecticut State Medical Society.

With his thorough preparation and his father's mature and practical counsel ever at command, the conditions looking to success were plainly in his favor.

Added to his pleasing manner and address was a quiet but marked executive force, and he soon won a place and the confidence of the people as one who gave his patient his careful and studious attention, and was credited as a young physician who faithfully and earnestly cared for those of whom he had charge; of one who was wedded to his profession, and one who believed that of all pursuits that of the physician best proved his love of his fellow man, and that the physician's chosen field was the noblest of them all.

There was in him the promise of a bright and useful future, and his young life was cut off at the very beginning of his career. He contracted typhoid pneumonia during its prevalence from exposure to the rigor of our winter climate, as many another of our noble brothers have suffered and fallen while relieving the suffering of others.

His wife, who, with an infant daughter survive him, was the daughter of Prof. O. D. Pomeroy, one of the founders of Manhattan Eye and Ear Infirmary.

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He was a Mason and a member of the Temple of HonThese attended his funeral in a body. The Masons conducted the service at the grave, while many other friends and citizens were present at the last sad rites of the young and beloved physician.

APPENDIX.

At the annual meeting in Hartford the following recommendation of the Committee on Unfinished Business was adopted. Proceedings, p. 19.

We recommend that a matter of so much importance as the revision of our by-laws be referred to a committee appointed by the President at this meeting, said committee to consist of the President and Secretary of the State Society, together with one member from each county, making the entire committee ten in number. We further recommend that this committee be required to have their report completed and printed in sufficient time for the county societies to act upon them at their Fall meeting, which will allow ample time for the Society's action before the next meeting of the Legislature.

The committee consists, besides the President and Secretary, of E. J. McKnight, Hartford County; C. S. Rodman, New Haven County; L. B. Almy, New London County; W. H. Donaldson, Fairfield County; S. B. Overlock, Windham County; J. S. Bissell, Litchfield County; J. F. Calef, Middlesex County; E. P. Flint, Tolland County.

To give as large a circulation as possible to the subject it has been deemed advisable to print the Constitution and By-Laws for State Associations, which it is proposed that we adopt, by the American Medical Association.

N. E. WORDIN,
Secretary.