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ably a fair assumption that many of the flowers of Colonial Maryland sprang from this origin.

Dr. Scott was a close observer, taking a deep interest in medical progress and fre- quently ordering new books through his agent in London.

Shortly after his arrival in Maryland he

married Elizabeth Ross, an heiress, with

a large landed estate, but died without

direct descendants.

E. F. C.

For picture and Memoir of Dr. Scott. Cor- dell's Medical Annals of Maryland, 1903. Also Upton Scott of Annapolis. Maryland. Med. Jour., Bait., 1092, vol. xlv (E. F. Cordell).

Schultz, Sir John Christian (1840-1896).

John C. Schultz, of Norse and Irish descent, son of Wilham Schultz, of Ber- gen, Norway, and EHzabeth Riley, of Bandon, Ireland, was born at Amherst- burg, Ontario, January 1, 1840, and re- ceived his education at Oberlin College, Ohio, and Kingston, Ontario, then took his medical course at Victoria College, Toronto, graduating in 1861.

The Ufe of Sir John Christian Schultz is intricately woven into the early history of the Canadian North West, formerly called Rupert's land. His first trip there was made at the age of twenty, before he graduated in medicine. He returned to his home in 1861 to take his degree, but immediately went back to the land of his adoption where he success- fully practised till public duties claimed all his time.

In 1863 he assisted Gov. MacTavish and the right Rev. Bishop Anderson in forming the Institute of Rupert's Land, of which he became secretary, taking an active part in the founding of its museum and contributing papers on prevaiUng diseases of Rupert's Land and on the plants, minerals and other natural re- sources of the country. In this year, after reading a paper on the "Flora of the Red River Valley Country" before the Botanical Society of Kingston, he was elected a fellow of that Society.

While a member of the House of Com-

mons, he impressed on the Government the vast resources of the new province, pointing to what he termed "Greater Canada" as having the largest extent of arable and grazing land and the greatest coal measures in the Dominion; and he also advocated a trans-continental rail- way to bind the Dominion together.

In 1867 he married Agnes, daughter of James Farquliarson, Esq., of British Guiana. In 1984 the degree of LL. D. had been conferred upon him by Queen's University, Kingston. He died in April, 1896. An incident of his early Ufe in the Northwest illustrates alike the adventur- ous side of life there in the sixities, and the ready and resourceful character that ever marked Sir John Schultz. As a boy he had lived near the old scenes of the life of the great Indian chief Tecumseh and the stories of the noble life of the red man had a profound influence on the lad. Throughout his life he was dauntless and forceful, yet kind and gentle. His natural sagacity stood him in good stead on many occasions. On one of his early trips from Ontario to Fort Garry, he went by way of St. Paul, Minnesota, from which place he drove all the way, a distance of four hundred and fifty miles. The Indians throughout the northern central states were all on the war path, and the young doctor was advised not to try to make the journey. He, however, secured a companion and set forth. After some days' journey they were surprised by a band of warriors and immediately piled up their kit as a barricade. A parley ensued between the two men and the forty Indians, when a shout came from behind an elm tree, demanding "by what right the white man passed through their country?" The barricade answered "I am a Segenash Mushkekewenene (Eng- lish medicine man) travelling to the wigwams of the English people at the Enghsh fort." The "Elm Tree" answered " We saw you as you crossed the ford and you were dressed like the people we have just driven from our hunting grounds." The barricade answered, "Clothes do not differ among the whites and we