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throuf^h college, gradusiting in 18-14 at. Wosloyan I'niversity, iMiddletown, Con- necticut. In 1S4S he married Betsy Ann Tidd, who died in 1S50. The next year he married Abigail Paine. He was appointed in 1857 astronomer to the Lake Coast Survey and in 1860 special in- structor in mathematics, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, and ordered on a cruise at sea. In 1861 he became professor of chemistry and toxicology in ( It'orgetown Medical College, but resigned in lS(i7. During the war of 1861-5 he was acting assistant surgeon. United States Army; served in the Army of the Potomac on staff of Gen. McClellan, and also in mih- tary hospitals in Washington. Associ- ated with others in founding Howard Uni- versity, he is saitl to have suggested the university instead of a college and to have organized the medical department. In 1878 he was employed by the United States Department of Agriculture col- lecting special statistics of food products of the United States, and estimated the population of the United States in 1880, being in error only by 18,000. He dis- covered a process for and invented ma- chinery for making textile fiber from varieties of the palm in 1878. He wrote " Normal Arithmetic," 1859, "Analyti- cal Arithmetic," I860, and "Education and Health of Women," 1882.

His A. M. was from Howard University, his M. D. (1857) from Georgetown. He died on June 22, 1896.

D. S. L.

Appleton's Biog., 1888.

Twentieth Century Biog. Diet.

Lamb's Hist, of the Med. Dpt. of Howard

Univ., Wash., D. C, 1900.

Loring, Edward Greely (1837-1888).

Edward Greely Loring, Jr., was born in Boston in 1837 and began his medical studies in Florence, Italy, in 1859, con- tinuing them at Pisa. In 1862 he return- ed to Boston, entered Harvard Medical School, graduated in 1864 and became an externe in the ophthalmic clinic of the Boston City Hospital and the Massachu- setts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary,

In 1865 he began practice in Baltimore, but in the following year left for New York to be the associate of Dr. C. R. Ag- new. He became surgeon to the Brook- lyn Eye and Ear Hospital, the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, and later the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and a mem- ber of the American Ophthalmological Society in 1865. He died of angina pec- toris, April 23, 1888.

Loring was a prolific writer, his most notable work being his well known and admirable " Text-book on Ophthalmo- scopy" in 1886. By his writings on ophthalmological subjects and by his per- fection of the ophthalmoscope (which is still one of the most popular instruments) he did far more than any other one man to place American ophthalmology abreast with that of the world.

H. F. Trans. Am. Oph. Soc. vol. v, (port.).

Luckie, James Buckner (1833-1908).

Born in Covington, Georgia, July 16, 1833, he was of Scotch descent, his ances- tors, emigrating from England and Scot- land, and settling in the Carolinas. His father. Judge William Dickinson Luckie, moved to Georgia, where Dr. Luckie spent his boyhood.

Educated in the common schools and in Gwinnet Institute, he began the study of medicine when eighteen with Dr. John B. Hendrick and in the winter of '53 at- tended his first course of lectures in Augusta, Georgia. The following winter he attended the Pennsylvania Medical College at Philadelphia and graduated in March, 1855. He practised a year in his native county, then in Orion, Alabama. On the outbreak of Civil War he received the appointment of assistant surgeon. Serving in Kentucky, he was made medi- cal purveyor by Gen. Kirby Smith, after- wards Inspector of Hospitals; and served Avith Graces' Brigade in the Army of Virginia, closing his army career with the surrender of Gen. R. E. Lee at Appomattox.

He settled in Pine Level, Montgomery- County, Alabama, but removed in 1872

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