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ALLEN who survived him with a son and a daughter.

Among his other appointments he was: acting assistant surgeon, 1862; assistant surgeon in the United States Army, 1862. He served throughout the war and resigned in December, 1865, with the title of Brevet-major.

Professor of anatomy and surgery at the Pennsylvania Dental College, 1866-78; visiting surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital, 1874-S; assistant surgeon to Wills' Eye Hospital, 1868-70, and to St. Joseph's Hospital, 1870-7S; presidency of the American Laryngological Association, 1886.

In 1865 he was appointed to the chair of comparative anatomy and zoology in the auxiliary department of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1878, to the chair of the institutes of medicine in the medical department of the University; 1885 saw him emeritus professor of the institutes of medicine, and in 1891 he once more assumed the chair of comparative anatomy and zoology which he held until 1896. He was thus connected with the University of Pennsylvania as a teacher for over thirty years. Among other scientific societies to which he belonged may be mentioned the Natural History Society of Boston, the Philadelphia Pathological Society, the Washing- ton Biological Society, the Association of American Anatomists, of which he was president from 1891-1893, and the Anthropomorphic Society, of which he became president in 1891.

A list of his works is in "Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Session of the Association of American Anatomists held in Ithaca, December, 1897." C. R. B.

Harrison Allen, by Burt G. Wilder. Proceedings of the Association of American Anatomists, December, 1S97. A brief biography with portrait and bibliography. Dr. Allen's Contributions to Anthropology, by D. G. Brinton. Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy of Arts and Science, December. 31, 1S97.

Dr. Allen's Zoological Work, by S. N. Rhoads. same proceedings,

Biographical notes of Harrison Allen and George Henry Horn, same proceedings.

Allen, Nathan (1813-1889).

Dr. Allen was born in Princeton, Massachusetts, April 25, 1S13. His parents, Moses and Mehitable Oliver Allen, were both born in Barre, Massachusetts, the great ancestor of this family of Aliens having been Walter Allen, one of the original proprietors of Old Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1648.

Nathan Allen graduated from Amherst College in 1836. He received his M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1841, and settled in Lowell the same year. Here he practised until his death, January 1, 1889, the result of a fall down-stairs.

He received the honorary M. D. from Castleton (Vermont) Medical College in 1847, and LL. D. from Amherst in 1873.

Dr. Allen devoted himself to the study of physical culture, degeneracy, insanity, heredity, hygiene, education, and intemperance. In 1856 he was chosen a trustee of Amherst College, and in 1864 Governor John A. Andrew appointed him a member of the State Board of Charities. He served on the board for fifteen years. In 1872 he visited Europe as a delegate appointed by Governor Washburn to the international congress of prison reform in London.

His published writings comprise over one thousand octavo pages. Some of the more noted are: "Physical Culture in Amherst College," "Intermarriage of Relatives," "Physiological Laws of Human Increase," " Normal Standard of Women for Propagation," " Report on Lunacy to the Massachusetts Legislature," and his most noted work, "Changes in the New England Population."

He was married first, September 15, 1 84 1, to Sarah H. Spaulding, of Wakefield, Massachusetts. Shedied without children and he was married a second time, in 1S58, to Annie W.Waters,of Salem, Massachusetts, by whom he had four children.

He was for a long time connected with St. John's Hospital and always labored to secure a better esprit de corps in the medical profession. W. L. B.

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