a partner. But the years of increasing infirmity were busily occupied ; and, in 1861, he printed the genealogical history of "The Emigrant Robert Harris and his Descendants."

But Dr. Harris was really best known and appreciated in the bosom of his family, where he was the centre of overy joy and every sorrow, and where he died, surrounded by the wife of his youth, and those who are happy in the inheritance of his virtues and his refined tastes.

G. F.

J. LAWRENCE FOX.

DR. J. LAWRENCE FOX was born in Salem, January 11, 1811, and died in Roxbury, December 17, 1864. He was son of Ebenezer Fox, of Hollis, N. H. He prepared for College at the Public Latin School in Salem. He was graduated at Amherst in 1831. He studied medicine at Salem, with Dr. Abel L. Peirson, and at Philadelphia, and received his medical degree from Harvard, 1835. September 6, 1837, he was appointed Assist. Surgeon in the United States Navy. He was with Capt. Wilkes in his southern expedition, where Dr. Fox's services were highly appreciated. He was appointed Surgeon U. S. N., in 1847. June 15th, of the same year, he married Elizabeth A., daughter of Commodore Charles Morris. During 27 years he was in constant service, much of the time on important posts. For many years, on two different occasions, he was stationed at Chelsea, much to the satisfaction of the Profession of Boston, at whose Societies he was always a most welcome visitor. His urbanity, his intelligence, and his wide experience, combined with his rare modesty and unblemished honor, always gave pleasure and afforded profit to his associates. There was a certain dignity about him which suited well his fine manly form.

Early in 1864, he was appointed Fleet Surgeon of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, under Commodore Porter, then near Fortress Monroe. His labors in this position were very arduous, and a trouble in the heart that had probably been insidiously encroaching upon him for some time, increased fearfully. Yet he still kept at his post, even when unable, owing to dyspnea, to lie down at night, and great dema of the legs had supervened.

It was only at the urgent solicitation of his brother, and of other medical men, that he took a leave of absence for a few weeks, vainly hoping to be able to return again after a short rest at home in the North. He soon found, however, that his final illness had come. But his cheerful patience under suffering, and his resignation under this loss of his brightest hopes of serving his country in the hour of her need, were charming to all who saw him. No one entered his sick room without feeling the friendly influences that seemed to radiate from him.

He was as truly a martyr to this sacred war as is the soldier who falls dead upon the battle-field. His memory will be to some of us a perpetual benediction. His wife and three children, who still live, will gain from it some of their highest consolations.

LUCIUS M. SARGENT, JR.

H. I. B.

DR. LUCIUS M. SARGENT, Jr., Lt. Col. 1st Mass. Cavalry, was killed, Dec. 9th, 1864, in action, near Bellfield, Va., by a shell which broke the right clavicle and otherwise crushed in the chest, though leaving no noticeable external disfigurement.

Dr. Sargent was born in Boston, Sept. 15th, 1826. His life, not a long one, was unusually varied and full of incident. At school, college, before the mast, as artist, physician, or soldier, he was always among the foremost where expedient, energy, talent, and courage were necessary for success. He had seen much of the world, and knew well both books and men. To whatever he undertook, he gave his whole energy with characteristic devotion. Few of his age were his equals in wit, literature, or science. To great physical strength he added the most delicate touch with the pencil, and the tenderest manipulation of the sick.

After his marriage, in 1847, he fitted up a studio at his residence, and passed much of his time in drawing, painting, and collateral studies. Art-anatomy naturally led to practical anatomy, and thence to medical science in general. Having decided to enter the profession, he made the business of preparation a no half-way matter. His zeal was unbounded and his application unremitted. Nothing was too trivial to escape his rapid observation, nor too difficult to discourage his ardent enthusiasm. His progress was remarkable, and the position he attained unprecedented-so that when he graduated he was already a man of mark, to whom the profession looked in full expectation of greater things in after days. The Hospital created the office of Artist to secure his services; and the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, at the earliest moment allowed by their constitution, elected him a member. He soon became one of the most prominent physicians of the section of the city where he located; and a brilliant future seemed opening before him. But the chief obstacle to his medical career came from a source the last to be suspected by any one not intimately acquainted with his character-extreme tenderheartedness. Fearless of gods and men, the plaintive weakness of a sick child appalled, and its death while under his care completely unnerved him. It was while weighed down by an experience of this kind that he obtained the appointment of Surgeon of a three years' reg't, 2d Mass.

Vols.; hoping that the duties of the service would be more tolerable. But the routine of winter quarters and the surgeon's call, with its array of malingerers, soon became too dull for his irrepressible energies. He accordingly resigned his medical commission, asked for a position in the cavalry, and was appointed Capt. in the 1st Mass. Regt. Subsequently he was in a multitude of skirmishes and actions, and dangerous movements known only to cavalry service; and he rose in course with meritorious conduct to the rank of Lt. Colonel.

At the successful action of Aldie Pass he was wounded in the chest, and left for dead on the field; but the ball fortunately made only a subcutaneous circuit of nearly one third the chest, and he soon recovered to return at once to his command. In his last action he fell at the end of a successful charge, at the head of his column, sword in hand, at the very moment of victory.

Strong-handed yet tender-hearted-impulsive yet tenacious of purpose utterly without fear yet watchfully cautious-gallantly daring in assault yet undauntedly courageous in deadliest combat-of none of the patriot heroes who have nobly perished in unselfish efforts to save their perilled country are the poet's words more literally true:—

"With knitted brow and lifted blade

In Glory's arms they fall."

B. E. C.

WILLIAM JOHNSON WALKER.

Dr. WILLIAM JOHNSON WALKER died at Newport, R. I., April 2d, 1865. His father, Major Timothy Walker, and his mother, Abigail Johnson, were born in Burlington, Mass., and lived in Charlestown, Mass., where William Johnson, the second child of a large family, was born, March 15, 1789. His early education was in the public schools of his native town. He was fitted for College at Phillips' Academy, Andover, and entered Harvard University, where he was graduated in due course, in 1810. Although he was admitted to be a young man of ability, he, as he often regretfully confessed, did not devote himself as he ought to his College duties. The branches in which he was most interested were latin and geometry, in both of which he continued to take great pleasure through life.

He commenced the study of medicine in Charlestown, and subsequently continued it in Medford, Mass., under the direction of John Brooks, M.D., afterwards Governor of the Commonwealth, for whom, as his medical instructor, he always expressed the profoundest regard. The study of his profession was perfectly congenial to his taste, and he pursued it, especially the branches of anatomy and physiology, with

great industry and success. While yet a student, he competed successfully for the prize on the subject of Hydrocephalus offered by the Boylston Medical Committee of Harvard University in 1813. He was graduated at the Massachusetts Medical College in 1813, and soon after war at the time existing between the United States and Great Britain, sailed for France in a privateer fitted out from Boston against the English commerce. In Paris he devoted himself assiduously to his profession. The number of the French students being greatly diminished by the conscriptions of Napoleon, the hospitals were mainly served by medical students from abroad. Of the unusual opportunities thus offered, Dr. Walker, in company with the late eminent professor of Clinical Surgery in Harvard University, Dr. George Hayward, availed himself most faithfully, under the instruction of such men as Boyer, Roux, Dupuytren, Corvisart, Dubois and Magendie. On the abdication of Napoleon and the cessation of hostilities after the battle of Leipzic, Dr. Walker went to London and became a pupil of Sir Astley Cooper. He spent six months in the prosecution of his studies in Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals, and then returned to the United States. He immediately commenced the practice of his profession in his native town. By his devotion and kindness to his patients, and his consideration of those less favored by fortune, he became beloved and popular; by his knowledge of his profession, by the readiness and clearness with which he communicated that knowledge to his juniors, his affable manners towards them and his scrupulous care of their reputation, he became with them a favorite consulting physician and surgeon. The older members of the profession, though they did not always find him as agreeable in the consultation-room as they might wish, could never deny the accuracy of his observations nor the acuteness of his diagnosis. He was appointed physician and surgeon of the Massachusetts State Prison, which office he held for several years, and also consulting surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital. After having practised his profession about thirty years, and having performed successfully nearly all the capital operations in surgery, he relinquished it and went to Boston. He there turned his attention to the various public improvements in progress, especially in manufactures and railroads. The mental qualities which had made him eminent in his profession did not fail him in his new walk, and he soon amassed a large fortune. But it was no sooner acquired than he set about distributing it. Large sums were given to the Natural History Society of Boston, to Tufts College, to Amherst College, to the Institute of Technology in Boston, and to Williams College, amounting in all to about $200,000. This was given during his lifetime; by his will the four first named institutions are his residuary legatees, and thus become the recipients of a further sum of more than $800,000. Dr. Walker himself had not a

little experience as a medical instructor, and was eminently successful; probably no physician in the State, not connected with one of the medical schools, had received into his office so many pupils.

Like most men of strong intellect, he was pretty decided. After having formed an opinion upon mature consideration he was seldom moved, and was sometimes harsh in maintaining it. No man was ever a truer friend, and those whom he considered his enemies were never in doubt as to his relations to them. His temperament was ardent, which sometimes betrayed him into a course of action in which there was much to regret and little to defend. He enjoyed humor, and possessed a dry and pleasant wit. Ten years before his death he suffered from saccharine diabetes; he one day remarked, "how have I been maligned; my brethren in the profession have some of them denounced me as a sour, crabbed old fellow, and here is their refutation, for I am melting into honey-dew."

Dr. Walker owed his professional success to his accurate knowledge of anatomy, his clear conception of the principles of physiology, and his careful study of the natural history of disease. He believed in the principle embodied in the motto of our Society, but he also believed that Nature is a true leader to the diligent and vigilant only; to those who search out her secrets and watch for her monitions. Although in the main he was a cautious, he was never a timid, practitioner. He was by no means wanting in boldness and decision when occasion required.

Dr. Walker married, in 1817, Eliza Hurd, daughter of Joseph Hurd, of Charlestown, by whom he had eight children. His widow and five of his children survive him.

M. W.