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before; so I was caught in my own trap, and had to make my first hypodermatic injection for a disease of the eyes.

J. A. S.

Trans. Maine Med. Assoc.

Snow, Edward Sparrow (1820-1892).

Edward Sparrow Snow was born in Austinbm-g, Ashtabula County, Ohio, July 5, 1820. His parents, Sparrow, and Clara (Kneeland) Snow were natives of Massachusetts, of J^nglish descent, living on a farm near Austinburg, Ohio, in 1817. Edward S. Snow graduated at Grand River Institute, Ohio, in 1842. During his student days he served two years as adjutant of First Rifle Regiment, Second Brigade and Twenty-first Divi- sion under Col. Tracy and Gen. Stearns of Ohio. He studied medicine with Dr. O. K. Hawley, of Austinburg, Ohio, and in 1847 took his M. D. from the medical department of Western Reserve College, Cleveland, Ohio. After practicing a brief period at Plymouth and Dearborn, Michigan, he was appointed acting assist- ant-surgeon of Detroit Arsenal. After a year he was displaced, but in 1852 rein- stated by Jeff Davis, and continued to serve till the Arsenal was abandoned by the United States Ordinance Department. Dr. Snow was a founder of the Wayne County (Michigan) Medical Society, both in its first and second epochs; founder of the first Detroit Medical Society; founder of the Michigan Medical Society. Dr. Snow was a large man, fully six feet tall and weighing over two hundred pounds. His face was smooth, ruddy, rather full, hair sandy, gracious expression, thought- ful manner, deliberate in speech. He died in Dearborn, Michigan, July IS, 1892, from apoplexy. L. C.

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Solly, Samuel Edwin (1845-1906).

An Englishman, who spent his active life in Colorado. A general practitioner, devoting himself to diseases of all kinds, especially to chest diseases seeking an arrest in that climate, and a restless

pioneer in the now prevalent climatic treatment of tuberculosis. Such in brief was Dr. Solly.

Born in London, May 5, 1845, he was educated at Rugby and later at St. Thomas' Hospital. His father was a distinguished London surgeon. His grandfather, a financier, joined with others in building the "Sirius," one of the first steamships to ply between England and America.

In 1874 Solly cast his lot with the infant Colorado (being driven to it by disease) and with others was so insistant on its climatic virtues as to compel the world to hear. His principal writing was the " Handbook of Medical Climatologj"," though he published a large number of monographs on various diseases as they were affected by climate, and principally that of Colorado. His last important work was to build, with funds provided by the late Gen. Palmer, Cragmor Sana- torium overlooking Colorado Springs. He lived to conduct this institution through the first year of its existence. He was a fellow of the Royal Medico- Chirurgical Society of London; ex-presi- dent of the American Climatological Association, of the American Laryngo- logical, Rhinological, and Otological Society; Colorado State Medical Society, and the El Paso County Medical Society. He received the honorary M. D. from the University of Denver. He was a director of the National Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.

He married in 1872, in London, Eng- land, Alma Helena Sandwell, who died in 1875, leaving two daughters, Lillian and Alma, and in 1877(?) in Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Elizabeth Meller Evans, of Philadelphia, a widow with two children, Helen and William. On the nineteenth of November, 1906, Dr. Solly died in Asheville, North Caro- lina, of heart disease, complicated with Bright's disease. S. A. F.

Somers, John (1840-1898).

John Somers was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1840, and died in