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NAME SALISBURY 1015 SALMON he graduated M. D. at Albany Medical Col- lege. In 1846 he was appointed assistant, and in 1849 principal chemist of the New York State Geological Survey, serving until 1852. In 1848 he was elected a member of the American -Association for the Advancement of Science; in 1857 of the American Antiquarian Society; in 1878 he was made president of the Insti- tute of Mycology. Salisbury won a prize gold medal from the Young Mens Association of Albany for the best essay on the "Anatomy and Histology of Plants" (1848), and the prize of three hundred dollars for the best essay on "The Chemical and Physiological Examinations of the Maize Plant, during the Various Stages of its Growth," ofifered by the New York State Agricultural Sociefty, and published in the New York State Agricultural Reports for 1849. He lectured on elementary and applied chem- istry in the New York State Normal School (1851-1852). His work in microscopic medicine was be- gun in 1849 and his researches led him to the conclusion that "consumption, Bright's disease, diabetes mellitus, rheumatism, gout, nearly all abnormal growths, the various paralytic dis- eases aside from those which are the result of injury and nearly all cases of mental de- rangement and fatty disease of organs, arise from unhealthy feeding and drinking." A pioneer in advocating the germ theory of dis- ease, he began his studies in 1849; in 1860 he began a series of investigations to discover if possible where blood was made, and the office or offices it played in the organism"; ajter much labor he determined that the spleen was the great blood gland and the mesenteric and lymphatic glands were the lesser agents. (American Journal of Sciences, 1866, V. 51, 307-340). He firmly believed that malarial fever was a cryptogamic disease and made numerous careful experiments in malarious regions in the South (1862), discovering a number of palmellae which he called by the generic name, geiniasma, found in the expectoration and collected on moist plates exposed near marshes. These he designated as the cause of the dis- ease. (Am. Jour, of Sciences, 1866, li, 51-75). In 1864 he went to Cleveland, Ohio, to aid in establishing the Charity Hospital Medical College, and lectured there on physiology, histology and the microscope in disease (1864- 1866). He published numerous analyses of various vegetables and fruits (1850-1861) and wrote on phyto-pathology. He wrote on "Blight in Apple, Pear, and Quince Trees and the Decay in their Fruit" (1863) ; on "Chronic Diarrhoea arising in armies due to the state of the food" (1864) ; "The Probable Source of Camp Measles, Found in the Fungi of Wheat and Rye Straw" ; and again on inoculating the human system with straw fungis to protect it against measles (1862) ; a description of two new algoid vegetations, the probable specific causes of syphilis and gonorrhoea (1873) ; two parasitic diseases in sucking kittens and suck- ing puppies (1875) ; "Pus and Infection" (1878); a study of ancient earth and rock writing (1863) ; in addition many other papers on microscopic subjects. In 1860 Dr. Salisbury married Clara, daugh- ter of the Hon. John T. Brasee, of Lan- caster, Ohio. Sketch of the Life of James H. Salisbury, with Portrait. Cincinnati, 1884. Salisbury, Jerome Henry (1854-1915) Jerome Henry Salisbury, professor of chem- istry and editor, was born in Fitchburg, Wis- consin in 1854. He graduated at Wisconsin University in 1876 and was valedictorian of his class; he graduated in medicine at Rush Medical College in 1878, soon after becoming professor of chemistry in the Northwestern University Women's Medical School, Chicago. Later he was appointed assistant professor of chemistry, then assistant professor of medi- cine in Rush Medical College; also he was professor of medicine at the Illinois Post- Graduate School. He collaborated with Dr. Frank Billings in the Section on General Medi- cine of the "Practical Medicine Series" and with Professor C. S. N. Hallberg on the "Physician's Manual of the Pharmacopeia." From 1907 until his death he was on the editorial staff of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He died at his home in Wheaton, Illinois, May 14, 1915. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., I9I5, vol. Ixiv, 1778. Salmon, Daniel Elmer (1850-1914) Dr. Daniel Elmer Salmon, former Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, was born at Mount Olive, Morris County, New Jersey, July 23, 1850, and died of pneumonia at Butte, Montana, August 30, 1914. His early- life was passed partly on a farm and partly as a clerk in a country store. He was educated at the Mount Olive district school, Chester Insti- tute, Eastman Business College, and Cornell University. He entered Cornell University at its opening in 1868, being a member of its