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in the "St. Louis Courier of Medicine" January, 1886, three months after his death on October 7, 1885.

Dr. Duval married at Van Buren May 8, 1860, Angela Medora, daughter of Dr. James A. Dibrell, and had four children — Annie, Benjamin Taylor, Dibrell LeGrand, and Angela Medora.

He died on October 7, 1885.

Dyer, Ezra (1836-1887).

Ezra Dyer was born in Boston, Octo- ber 17, 1836, graduated at Harvard in 1S57, and after studying under Jeffer- ies Wyman, Morril Wyman, and John Ware, entered the Medical School and graduated in 1859. He then studied in Dublin, Bonn, and Vienna, where, under Arlt, his interest in ophthalmic surgery was awakened, and he determined to devote himself to this specialty. With a letter from Arlt to Von Graefe he went on to Berlin in the fall of 1S60. Having spent a most profitable winter semester with Von Graefe, Dyer went to London, spent several months at the Moorfields Hospital, then to Paris

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to study under Desmarres and Sichel, and finally to Utrecht to visit Donders and Snellen. He returned to Philadel- phia in the winter of 1861. During the war he was given charge of all eye and ear cases in the Philadelphia Army Hospitals.

In 1864 he was one of the founders of the American Ophthalmological Society and later was appointed surgeon at Wills Eye Hospital. In 1873 he left Philadelphia on account of the health of a member of his family, gave up a large practice, and took up his abode in Pittsburg where he soon acquired an enviable reputation. In 1S79 and again in 18S0 he fell and suffered serious fractures from which he never wholly recovered. He removed in 18S3 to Newport and died February 9, 1887.

Unswerving integrity, unselfish and enduring loyalty, a child-like faith in those he loved, these were among the characteristics of Ezra Dyer. H. F.

Trans. Am. Ophth. Soc, vol. iv., 1SS5-7

(Port).

New York Medical Journal, 1SS7, vol. xlv.