For Dr. Ely was a many-sided man. He was fond of books, especially books of the elder time. These he was wont to handle gently as a respecter of their persons should, turning readily as one may in fields familiar, to quaint phrases or pictures or the record of forgotten lore. He had a goodly store of these gathered through thirty years of studious life. He was a connoisseur in prints and engravings, and had a noteworthy collection which grew to be of large historic interest. He was fond of music and found it a source of unfailing recreation and keen delight. He had wandered down into Italy in his student days and was not unfamiliar with the treasures of the galleries in Paris and London, Dresden and Berlin; and while not himself an artist his tastes led him into the fields which art inhabits. He loved a fine binding on a book and often whiled away an hour in binding some treasure for himself.

He was an out-of-doors man. He walked and rode; he took long tours awheel. The summer might find him with Mrs. Ely in some far Canadian retreat, or canoeing in New England, or in open quarters beside the sea.

He was a genial, courteous companion, a generous and steadfast friend. The brief story of his life, full rather of service than events, can be set down in words. But the record of his kindliness to the poor and the stricken; the sympathy and help he brought to those who sought his counsel; the impress of his generous spirit upon his friends; and the impulse to higher ideals in medicine which his living and his teaching fostered; these all may find expression only in the uplift in life and purpose of those to whom in various ways he ministered.

Daniel Meigs Webb, M.D., Madison.

REYNOLDS WEBB WILCOX, M.D., New York.

Daniel Meigs Webb was born at Madison, Conn., on April 6, 1822, and died there January 1, 1906.

He was a lineal descendant of Richard Webb from Dorsetshire, 1626, emigrant, who settled in Stamford, Conn., in 1655. Reynold Webb, his grandfather was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. Reynold Webb, his father, a soldier in the war of 1812, was graduated M.D. from Yale College in 1819, and practiced in Madison, Conn., until his death in 1856. His mother, Deborah Hopson (Meigs) Webb, daughter of Sergeant Daniel Meigs, a soldier of the war of the Revolution, was a lineal descendant of Vincent Meigs, emigrant from Dorsetshire, 1637, who settled in East Guilford (now Madison), Conn., in 1639, on the place now occupied by a house built by Capt. Jehiel Meigs in 1650 in which Doctor Webb was born. He was graduated A.B., 1846, A.M. and M.D., 1849 at Yale College, and practiced his profession at Madison, Conn., until his death; father and son in their practice covering the period from 1819 to 1906.

Dr. Webb was senior warden of the church of the Holy Trinity (Episcopal), Clinton, Conn., a member of Madison Lodge No. 87, F. & A. M. of Franklin Chapter and Harmony Commandery, No. 2 of New Haven, Conn. He was a member of the New Haven County Medical Association and the Connecticut State Medical Society. His only surviving relatives are his widow, Mary Elizabeth (Elderkin) Webb, a descendant of Judge Elderkin of Windham, Conn., and a nephew, Dr. Reynold Webb Wilcox of New York City.

Dr. Webb was always a student. Possessed of a remarkable memory his fund of information was practically inexhaustible. He read medicine, not only in English, but in Italian and French as well, until the week of his death. As a practitioner he employed

sound judgment, infinite patience, and conscientious faithfulness to the best teachings of modern medicine. He maintained his reading acquaintance with the classics of his college days, and his sonorous rendering of Dante, Tasso, or Ariosto was as scholarly as it is unusual.

With great kindness of heart he lived the life of a typical family physician, did his duty thoroughly, and died commanding the respect, love, and devotion of all those who appreciate the noble qualities which go to make up the best type of a medical gentleman.

Curtice Harvey Bill, M.D., Bridgeport.

GEORGE L. PORTER, M.D., Bridgeport.

The death of Dr. Bill removes from the Connecticut Medical Society a loyal member. Constant in its support by personal commendation and frequent attendance at the State meetings, and, as one of its delegates at the conventions of the National Association diligent and self-denying in the performance of the manifold duties of his profession — patriotic, at the time and in circumstances where such action demanded moral courage and manly self-respect, he enhanced by his civil and military record the reputation of the society and augmented intelligent respect for the profession of medicine.

Dr. Curtis Harvey Bill was the descendant of a long line of medical practitioners. A direct ancestor was the famous Dr. Thomas Bill of Bedfordshire, England, a personage of high repute, who about 1549 A.D. was summoned to attend Princess Elizabeth.

Dr. Bill was born at Albany, Vermont, on the 2d of July, 1835; he died in New York City on the 24th of July, 1905. His early life was spent in the Green Mountain State, influenced by the traditions and customs of its sturdy, self-respecting and public-spirited people-here were developed the inherited qualities of a vigorous physique - he was trained in its public schools, and here a sense of personal responsibility for the welfare of civic affairs, both state and national, was so firmly impressed upon his character that it was ever a determining factor in his later life. Amid varying circumstances he never wavered in the performance of those duties which he considered devolved upon him as an American citizen. In early manhood he was exposed to many political temptations and dangers, by which few men are tried, to force him into disloyal acts, but, amid them all, he remained true and faithful to the principles of liberty animating

the founders of the Republic, and to a feeling of reverence for the examples of patriotism furnished by the men of the American Revolution, which is the birthright of everyone born upon the fighting-ground which witnessed the exploits of Stark and Ethan Allen. His education, commenced with public schools, was continued at Barre Academy. He entered the office of Dr. Chandler of Montpelier for the study of medicine, in 1854 attended lectures in the medical department of Dartmouth College and of the University of Vermont, and at the University of New York was graduated in 1859. He went south and settled in Clarksville, Tenn. His diligence and ability soon won the confidence of the community, but, for him, the time was unpropitious. The public sentiment was fired with a passionate hatred of the North, with the determination to disrupt the Union, and to establish a Southern Confederacy. Popular opinion decreed that all who did not favor and support their political opinions were public enemies, and particularly so, if the individual came from a state north of Mason and Dixon's Line. That the doctor might have accepted an offered commission as surgeon in the Confederate Army is abundant proof of his good local reputation as a medical practitioner, acquired during his short stay in a strange land, that he was driven from his new home by his declination to accept this commission by a Vigilance Committee, is evidence of their overmastering hostility. This experience and the knowledge of the long-cherished and firmly established determination of the Southern people to dissolve the Union convinced him that, for its preservation, the nation demanded the loyal services of every patriot, and upon reaching Louisville, then the headquarters of General William T. Sherman, he joined the Union Army and was assigned to duty with the Fifteenth United States Infantry. He served with this command in the armies of the Ohio and the Cumberland from October, 1861, until September, 1863, was present at many of the great battles fought by the western armies during this time, and was personally complimented by General John H. King, U. S. A., " for gallant and faithful service on the battle-field." In the fall of 1863 he was appointed surgeon-inchief of the Howard Hospital at Nashville, and here performed many important surgical operations. In 1864 at the personal re