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greater part of his time to a study of the coast fauna. Three times a week he went to town to deliver lectures on human anat- omy. In the following year his profes- sorship at the college continued, but owing to illness he could give little attention to the work. He did not teach again in a medical college. His death took place at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 14, 1873.

While Agassiz's influence on natural history in this country was so powerful, he exerted little or no influence on the course of medical education, except in the indi- rect way of inspiring teachers who could train students in biology as a basis for technical medical study. C. R. B.

Louis Agassiz, his life and correspondence, edited by his wife. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 1885.

Louis Agassiz, life, letters and works, by Jules Marcou. McMillan and Co., 1896. This contains a list of the biographical sketches concerning Agassiz, and of Agassiz's scien- tific work.

A paper by Prof. Burt G. Wilder in the Popu- lar Science Monthly for July, 1907, gives an interesting account of "What we owe to Agassiz" and references to some paper- which appeared after Marcou's Life of Agassiz was published. Two other interests ing biographical sketches by Prof. Wilder are: Louis Agassiz, Teacher (Harvard Gradu- ates Magazine, June, 1907) and What Agassiz did for Cornell University (Cornell Era, vol. xxxix, June, 1907). Harvard Graduate, May, 1907.

Agnew, Cornelius Rea (1S30-1S8S).

The parents of Cornelius Rea were Wil- liam and Elizabeth Thomson Agnew, who lived in New York City. He graduated in arts at Columbia in 1S49, and then took up the study of medicine under Dr. Kear- ney Rogers, and graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1S52. He studied in Dublin, London, and Paris, and returned in 1855 to New York to engage in medical practice, becoming a surgeon in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. In 1S5S he was appointed Surgeon-Gen- eral of the State of New York, and at the outbreak of the war was director of the State Volunteer Hospital, doing vali- ant service for the wounded.

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In 1856 he married Mary, daughter of Lora Nash, of New York.

He was one of the founders of the American Ophthalmological Society in 1S64, and president from 1873 to 1S78; professor of ophthalmology and otology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. He displayed special adap- tion to the practice of his art, in operative work and sagacious treatment. His in- terests were very wide, his public posi- tions many and distinguished, and a list of his writings can be seen in the Surgeon- General's Catalogue, Washington, D. C.

He died April 18, 18S8, in New York. H.F.

Trans. Am. Oph. Soc, vol. v.

Stone's " Biography of Eminent American

Physicians and Surgeons."

Phila. Med. News, 1888, vol. lii.

New York Medical Record, 18S8, vol. xxxiii.

Agnew, David Hayes (1818-1892). Born in Lancaster County, Penn- sylvania.

David Hayes Agnew was the son of Robert Agnew, a well known physician. He studied at the Moscow Academy, Chester County, at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, and at Delaware College, Newark, Delaware, and entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1S35, where he gradu- ated in 1838.

Upon graduation he practised near Nobleville, Chester County, until 1S43, when he joined his wife's brothers in establishing the firm of Irwin and Agnew, iron-founders, continuing the business left by his father-in-law. In 1S46 the firm failed, and Dr. Agnew resumed practice in Chester and Lancaster Counties.

In 184S he removed to Philadelphia for the purpose of devoting himself specially to the study and teaching of anatomy and surgery, and in 1852 became connected with the Philadelphia School of Anatomy, where for ten years he gave instruction. He was exceedingly popular as a lecturer and considered an eminently practical teacher. When he took charge of the class it first numbered only nine students, but rose to two