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that, failing to secure an appropriation, the venture could not succeed. In 1S33 he accepted the chair of physiology under the new charter, which position he held for many years.

He was one of the delegates from the Medical Society of South Carolina who were sent to Philadelphia in 1847 to join in the organization of a National Medical Association. On account of his active work in this connection he was made one of the vice-presidents, and in 1851, at the Charleston session, he was elected president.

Dr. Moultrie was a man of simple and refined tastes, devoted to agriculture, horticulture, music and the fine arts. In his special sphere he exhibited profound thought and a high degree of analytical power. As a lecturer he preferred to sacrifice beauty of diction to the claims of a minute and detailed presentation of his subject.

He married Sarah Louise Shrewsbury, on November 12, 1818, but had no children, and died on May 29, 1869, of "old age" after an illness of only a few hours.

His chief publications were: an article on the "Uses of the Lymph," published in the first volume of the "American Medical Journal," and an essay on the "State of Medical Education in South Carohna," published in 1836 by the South Carolina Society for the Advancement of

Learning.

R. W. Jr.

Charleston M. J., vol. xii, 1857.

Tr. Amer. Med. Assoc, Phila., vol. xxix,

1878.

Mower, Thomas Gardner (1790-1853).

Graduating in arts at Harvard College he studied medicine under Dr. Thomas Babbit, of Brookfield, and in 1812 was appointed surgeon's mate in the United States Army and served with distinction on the Canadian frontier. After the War of 1812 he was for several years on duty on the upper Missouri. In 1844 he was elected a member of the American PhilosoiDhical

Society of Philadelphia. Mower was one of those men who labored earnestly and zealously to advance and elevate the medical department of the army. Dur- ing the last years of his life he was stationed in New York, where he died December 7, 1853.

A. A.

Necrol. Alumni Harvard Coll., Bost., 1864, Brown, Hist. Med. Dep. Army, Washington, 1873.

Muir, David Holmes (1848-1904).

David Holmes Muir, eldest son of Dr. Samuel Allan Muir, was born at Truro, Nova Scotia, in 1848, practised there all his life, and died there March 11, 1904.

His general education was obtained in his native town, and his professional training was first with his father and afterwards at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, from which he graduated M. D. in 1867. He was a member of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, and its president in 1879. After graduation he became assistant to his father, and soon had a very large practice of his own, which he retained until compelled to relinquish it through ill health. He married Miss Ritchie, daughter of Hon. J. W. Ritchie, judge in equity, and had two sons.

D. A. C.

Muir, Samuel Allan (1810-1875).

Samuel Allan Muir was born in Scot- land in 1810. He practised for a time in Glasgow, Scotland, but mainly at Truro, Nova Scotia.

His professional training was had at Glasgow and at Edinburgh, and he gradu- ated in 1834, with the L. R. C. S. (Edin- burgh) and L. C. P. and S. (Glasgow).

He was a member of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, and its president in 1871. After practising for a while in Glasgow, Scotland, he came to America, but his becoming a practitioner in Nova Scotia may be called rather a matter of accident. He first came to this Province in search of his diplomas which had been stolen from him by a young adventurer.