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NAME COLEMAN 240 COLEMAN Colden sent him a specimen and he named it after her, a compliment he was fond of paying ladies. Lady Ann Monson had the same perpetuation in the Monsonia. This same Miss Jane taught Dr. Samuel Bard to love botany when he stayed with her as a boy, an obligation he gratefully refers to. Colden retired in 17SS to a large grant of land called Coldenham, near Newburgh, where he wholly bent himself to science, especially botany and mathematics. His home was a rendezvous for all learned men. While in charge of the Government in 1775 Colden made up his mind that the stamped paper made necessary by Grenville's stamp act should be used, but the official distributor of stamps refused to receive it, so Colden went off to Fort George with a garrison of marines. When the New York populace pro- tested he ordered the marines to fire. They would not and the people seized Colden's carriages and burned them along with Colden and the devil in effigy. On the return of Governor Tryon Colden retired to his seat on Long Island, near Flushing, and there, on September 28, 1776, he died, leaving a son who distinguished himself as a mathematician and philosopher. Howard A. Kelly. Some Amer. Med. Botanists, H. A. Kelly, 1914. Am. Med. and Philos. Register, vol. i. Dictny. fif Nat. Biog., Leslie Stephen. Memorials of Bartram and Marshall, Darlington. Correspondence of Linnaeus. Sir J. Edw. Smith, Nichols' Literary Anecdotes. Coleman, Asa (1788-1870) Asa Coleman was born July 20, 1788, and studied medicine under his father, an ex-sur- geon of the Continental Army living in Glas- tonbury, Connecticut. He was almost literally born into medicine, being the fifth doctor in his family, two sons subsequently following in his footsteps. Dr. Coleman settled in Troy, Miami County, Ohio, in May, 1811, and in the fall of that year was licensed to practice by the Censors of the' First Medical District of Ohio, the li- cense bearing the signature of Daniel Drake. In September, 1811, he was commissioned surgeon in the state militia, and was rapidly promoted to be surgeon-major (1816) and to a lieutenant-colonelcy (1818). He represented his district in the State Legislature in 1816 and 1817, thus serving as a member of the first session held in the new Capital (Columbus). His name is appended to the call for the first organization of the physicians of this district of which there is a record. He died in Troy, Ohio, February 25, 1870. William J. Conklin. Coleman, Robert Thomas (1830-1'884) An army surgeon and obstetrician, R. T, Coleman was born in Hanover County, Vir- ginia, September 3, 1830, and studied medicine at the University of Virginia, taking the degree of M. D. and then going to the Jefferson Medi- cal College in Philadelphia, where he took an M. D. in 1852. He next served for three years in Blockley Hospital, and returned to Virginia, in 1855, and settled in Richmond. Soon afterward* he was elected lecturer on clinical medicine in the Blockley Hospital Medical Institution^ but declined the position. He practised in Richmond until the beginning of the Civil War, then entered the service of the Confed- eracy as surgeon of the twenty-first Virginia Regiment, and upon the organization of the famous "Stonewall Brigade" was appointed its surgeon-in-chief. After the war he returned to Richmond and resumed practice, and upon the reorgan- ization of the Medical College of Virginia, was elected professor of obstetrics, a position- he held until his death. He was a charter member of the Medical Society of Virginia and a member of the Richmond Academy of Medicine. His army record was excellent, and at one time he is said to have been the highest ranking officer in the medical corps of the Confederacy. He married a Miss Irvine and had a son and a daughter. The son, Burbage Coleman,, was a physician, but died of consumption early in his career, and the father died in Rich- mond after an illness (chronic nephritis) viTiich confined him to the house for several months, on March 4, 1884. He made few contributions to medical literature. So far as we can find the following are the only articles : "Management of Labor in Presentations of Head and Hand." Virginia Clinical Record^ vol. i ; "Puerperal Convulsions," Virginia Medical Monthly, vol. v. Robert M. Slaughter. Va. Med. Monthly, 1883, vol. x. Coleman, W. Franklin (1838-1917) W. Franklin Coleman, a pioneer Canadian- American ophthalmologist, was born at Brock- ville, Ontario, January 6, 1838, received his liberal education at the Potsdam, New York Academy, and his medical training at McGill University, Montreal, and at Queen's Col- lege, Kingston. At the latter institution he received the degree with honors in 1863. For about six years he practised generar medicine at Lyn, Ontario, then, turning his.