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eral large copper-plates for Josephus' " History of the Jews," and in 180S he exe- cuted on wood sixty or seventy illustra- tions for an American edition of Bell's "Anatomy," copied from the originals, etched by Bell himself. His last engrav- ing on copper was made about the year 1812 to illustrate a quarto Bible. The subject was "The Last Supper," from an English design. From that time he en- graved on wood exclusively, and found continual employment until called upon to lay aside every implement of labor for- ever. Between lS50and 1S55 he engraved forty octavo and forty smaller illustra- tions of Shakspeare's plays, from original designs, for Cooledge & Brother, then the publishers of "Webster's Spelling-book." They were executed in the substantial and characteristic style of English wood- cuts thirty or forty years previously.

In the spring of lS59,when in the eighty- fifth year of his age, Dr. Anderson changed his place of residence, and removed from where he had lived about thirty years. At that time he issued a new busi- ness card, drawn and engraved by him- self, with the appropriate motto — Flexus Non Fractus — " Bent, but not broken."

Dr. Anderson's reminiscences of the past were extremely vivid, and his rela- tions of them were very instructive. They extended back to the closing scenes of the Revolution. With most of the liter- ary and professional men in New York in the early part of this century he was very familiar, and was beloved by all for his sterling virtues. The writer had heard the late Washington Irving speak of him in a most affectionate manner as one of the earliest friends of his youth, and from whom, when Irving was a lad, he learned to play the flageolet.

At the time of his death, Dr. Anderson was in the ninety-fifth year of his age. In person he was a little below the medium iK'i^ht, rather thick-set, and presented a countenance always beaming with benev- olence and kindly feeling. He was ex- tremely regular and temperate in his habits. "I would not sit up after 10 o'clock," he used to say, "to see an

angel." He was genial in thought and conversation, and uncommonly modest and retiring. It was not without much persuasion from the writer that he con- sented, several years ago, to sit for the daguerreotype from which his portrait was copied, and which he himself en- graved when he was past the eightieth year of his age.

Med. Register N. Y., 1870.

Harper's Weekly, 1870.

Life and Works of Alexander Anderson by

Frederic M. Burr, 1893.

Anderson, Turner (1S42-190S).

Turner Anderson, surgeon, was born in Meade County, Kentucky, on August 11, 1842; his people had come over here in 1770, with and were related to Lord Stirling. Turner studied medicine at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Sur- gery, graduating there in 1862 and settl- ing to practise in Louisville.

Endowed with the courage which comes from a thorough acquaintance with a subject, he was a bold operator, with admirable technic. His first hundred laparotomies were all successful, and to him is ascribed priority in the subperito- neal treatment of the pedicle in hysterec- tomy. He promulgated Anderson's modi- fication of Kelly's operation for perine- orrhaphy and was the first surgeon west of the Alleghenies to do pneumonotomy for the draining of pulmonary abscess.

During the war he was assistant sur- geon at Brown Hospital, Louisville, and afterwards surgeon major to the twenty- eighth Kentucky Infantry. When the fighting was over he married Anna Evans who died three years later, leaving him a daughter. His second wife was Sarah G., daughter of Judge Simrall and three chil- dren survived him, Lulie, Cornelia and Simrall who became a doctor.

Anderson senior was a genial, clever but practical man greatly venerated by his students and a favorite with the fac- ulty. His death, on the thirteenth of October, 1908, deprived Louisville of a fine surgeon and a good Christian citizen.

He was president of the College of Phy-