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pointed attending physician in 1S60. Beginning as a student in McGill Univer- sity, and graduating with honors at the head of his class in 1S54, his connection with it, as student, teacher, and gover- nor, was continous and close until his death on June 28, 1907. He was a member of Quebec Board of Health and consulting physician to the Royal Victoria Hospital from 1896, and for many years was recognized as the chief family physician in Montreal, but he had interests apart from medicine. He was a man of many social graces, an excellent speaker, and wrcte with admirable style. Dr. Craik was born near Montreal, April 22, 1829, and was in his seventy-eighth year at the time of his death, the immediate cause of which was pulmonary tuberculosis. He married in 1856, Alice, eldest daughter of the late Alexander Symmers, of Dublin, Ireland, who died childless in 1874.

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Crane, Charles Henry (1825-18S3).

Born in Rhode Island, surgeon-general of the United States Army, he was a son of Col. I. B. Crane, first United States Artillery. He studied at Maple Grove Academy and later at Yale College, from which institution he obtained the degrees of A. B. and A. M., graduating in medicine at Harvard Medical School in 1847 and soon after entering the United States Army as assistant surgeon. He served for several years on the Pacific coast and later on in New York City. Crane ren- dered faithful and meritorious service during the Civil War. He was promoted to the rank of surgeon in 1861 and was medical director of the department of the south until 1863, in which year he was as- signed to duty in the surgeon-general's office at Washington. Crane was ap- pointed surgeon-general of the United States Army July 3, 1882 He died suddenly October 10 of the following year. His portrait is in the library of the Surgeon-general's office at Washington. A. A.

N. York M. J., 1884, zL Med. News, Phila., 18S3, xliii.

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Crane, William Henry (1869-1906).

William Henry Crane was born in Cin- cinnati on March 17, 1869, the son of Henry L. Crane, who came to Cincinnati from New Albany, Indiana, and Harriet Lupton, of Cincinnati. Dr. Crane went to the public schools of Cincinnati and the University of Cincinnati, where he re- ceived his B. S. in 1891, immediately after entering the Medical College of Ohio (the medical department of the Univer- sity of Cincinnati) and graduating with high honors in 1893. For the next two years he served as interne in three of the city hospitals before entering on active practice. His interests had always been along the lines of natural science, and he had early taken up and pursued with par- ticular zeal the study of chemistry. In the earlier years of practice, Dr. Crane de- voted much time to original research along the lines of physiological chemistry, and soon after beginning practice, was made instructor in physiological chem- istry in the Medical College of Ohio. In 1898 he became professor of chemistry, which position he held up to the time of his death. In 1902 Dr Crane took charge of the municipal laboratory of the city of Cincinnati, and during his four years there completely revolutionized the workings of the laboratory.

His tragic death, which occurred in May, 1906, at the Academy of Medicine, happened as he was just in the act of demonstrating a new cream thickener, which he discovered. He suddenly fell to the floor lifeless. He was an active mem- ber of the American Chemical Society, and for some time was president of the Cincinnati branch. Among his publica- tions was a laboratory text-book of methods of "Physiological Chemistry," which was adopted as a standard work in several schools. Dr. Crane's interests were not limited to his chosen fields of medicine and chemistry, he always re- tained his interest in zoology and botany, and was an amateur photographer of rare skill, an excellent linguist and a thorough musician. Perhaps his chief characteris- tic was his attractive personality.