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SARRAZIN pital, of the Lunatic Hospital and of Clark University, and a member of the Antiquarian Society.

He married Emily Whitney, September 27, 1841.

Dr. Sargent brought to Worcester a store of knowledge and skill, which made him preeminently the most conspicuous member of the medical profession in Central Massachusetts. He died in Worcester, October 13, 1888.

Sarrazin, Michel S. (1659–1734)

Michel S. Sarrazin, physician and naturalist, was born in France in 1659, and came to Canada in 1685. Becoming noted both as a doctor and scientist, he had the honor of being elected member of the French Academy. Moreover, several years after his arrival in Canada he was appointed King's physician for the country, the only bearer of that title in all New France. His salary was a bare 600 livres, without recompence from his patients. Sarrazin was also a member of the Supreme Council of Quebec.

About 1712 he married Marie Anne, the daughter of François Hazeur, fils, and had seven children. He died in Quebec, September 9, 1734, and his widow received a pension from the King; his sons, who were regarded as protégés of the State, were then studying medicine in Paris. He wrote: "Description of the Castor," "Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences" (1704); "A Letter on the Mineral Waters of Cap de la Magdelaine," "MemorisMemoirs [sic] of Trevoux" (1736); "Description of the Water or Musk Rat of America," in Paris "Documents," and a description of the plant which was named for him.

There seems to be some confusion among the botanists as to which Sarrazin the plant Sarracenia was named for. It was first named and described by J. M. Tournefort in "Institutiones rei herbariæ," second edition, Paris, 1700, thus: "Sarracena Canadensis foliis cavis et auritis. Saracenam appelavi a Clarissimo D. Sarrazin, Medicinæ Doctore, Anatomico et Botanico Regio insigni, qui eximiam hanc plantam pro summa qua me complectitur bene volentia e Canada misit." Linnaeus in his Genera Plantarum, 1753, established the genus ascribing it to Tournefort. The latter (on pp. 37, 38) gives great credit to Dr. Jean Antoine Sarrazin for his magnificent edition of Dioscorides and his notes on plants. As no initials are given to this Dr. Sarrazin, many writers have assumed that Dr. Jean Antoine is the one meant. But he was born in Lyons, France, April 25, 1547, and died there November 29, 1598, ten years before Tournefort was born. It was impossible, therefore, for him to have sent the plant to Tournefort.



Sartwell, Henry Parker (1792–1867)

Henry Parker Sartwell, the physician-botanist for whom was named the plant-genus Sartwellia, was born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, April 18, 1792, and died November 15, 1867, at Penn Yan, New York. He began the practice of medicine early in life, and was a surgeon in the United States army in the War of 1812. He afterward made his home in Ontario County, New York, and about 1830 settled at Penn Yan, in an adjoining county, where he continued his medical practice for the remainder of his life. He devoted much of his time for many years to the study of botany, and particularly to the large and difficult genus Carex. He issued sets of these plants, under the title "Carices Americae Septentrionalis exsiccatae," of which the first part appeared in 1848 and the second in 1850; the third part was in course of preparation at the time of his death, but was never published. Dr. Sartwell was also the author of a "Catalogue of plants growing without cultivation in the vicinity of Seneca and Crooked lakes, in western New York" published in 1845 in the fifty-eighth annual report of the Regents of the University of New York.

In 1864, Hamilton College conferred upon him the degree of Ph. D.; and at about the same time he sold to that institution his very extensive private herbarium, containing not only the results of his own collecting for many years, but numerous specimens secured by exchange with Buckley, Torrey, Barratt, Boott, and other botanists. His most intimate associate in the study of sedges,, (q. v.), of Rochester, New York, survived him only one month.



Satterlee, Richard Sherwood (1798–1880)

Richard Sherwood Satterlee, surgeon, United States Army, son of Major William