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NAME COTTON 253 COUES could establish the Getting Fund for the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1876, the income being used to provide a luncheon <it the meetings of the Council of that body, and the Cotting Fund in the Harvard Medical School in 1890. Dr. Cotting settled perma- nently in Roxbury, a part of Boston after 1868, and there built up a very large prac- tice, boasting that on one occasion he made as many as forty-three visits in one day from €arly morning to late at night and on another attending four births in different parts of the town in twelve hours. His modest cottage was the meeting place of many noted men. Schol- arly, witty, skeptical. Dr. Cotting was at his best when surrounded by his friends in his home. He was a founder of the Obstetrical Society of Boston in 1861 and of the Roxbury Medical Improvement Society in 1866. One of the chief interests of his life was the Massachu- setts Medical Society and we note that he ■was recording secretary, 1855-1857, correspond- ing secretary, 1857-1864, orator, 1865, vice- president, 1872-1874, and president, 1874-1876. It was said of him that the society was his very religion. With several others Dr. Cot- ting purchased the Boston Medical and Sur- gical Journal when it was in a decadent con- dition and was at one time its editor ; he was consulting physician to the Boston City Hos- pital, founded in 1864, a Fellow of the Amer- ican Academy of Arts and Sciences and a trustee of the Boston Latin School. In later years he enjoyed the role of being a father in medicine to the young practitioner and all his life he exalted friendship. Of short stature he had the spare frame and fine face of a sensitive gentleman and his everj-day minis- terial frock coat made him a marked figure in his community. He died at his home in Rox- bury, May 22, 1897, at the age of 84. Walter L. BtmRAGE. Boston Med. & Surg. Jour., 1897, vol. cxxxvl. Memorial Address, H. Warren White, Host. Med. & Surg. Jour., 1916, vol. clxxiv, 874-876. Records of Mass. Med. Soc. Cotton, Alfred Cleveland (1847-1916) Alfred Cleveland Cotton, specialist in pedia- trics, was born in Griggsville. Illinois, May 18, 1847, son of Porter Cotton and Elvira Cleveland. In 1869 he graduated at the Illinois State Normal University, and in 1878 received his M. D. at Rush Medical College, Chicago. He served in the Civil War as drummer and private in Company F, 137th Illinois Volun- teer Infantry. He settled to practise in Chicago in 1878, becoming professor of pediatrics in Rush Med- ical College; attending physician to the Chil- dren's Department of the Presbyterian Hos- pital ; consulting physician to the Central Free Dispensary, and to Jackson Park Sanitarium. He was physician in charge of the infectious disease ward of Cook County Hospital and was city physician of Chicago in charge of isolation hospitals and the bridewell. He was president of the Illinois State Medical Society; the Chicago Medical Society ; American Pedia- tric Society; Chicago Pediatric Society; and Chicago Medical Examiners' Association. He wrote "Diseases of Children"; "Anat- omy, Physiology and Hygiene of the Devel- oping Period"; "Care of the Infant." In 1893 Dr. Cotton married Nettie U. Mc- Donald, of Chicago. He died at his home in Chicago, July 12, 1916, of heart disease. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., 1916, vol. Ixvii, 298. Coues, Elliott (1842-1899) Elliott Coues, naturalist, was born in Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, September 9, 1842, son of Samuel Elliott Coues and Caroline Haven Ladd. He graduated at Columbian (now George Washington) University, Wash- ington, in 1861, taking A. M. in 1862; M. D., 1863; Ph. D., 1864. Medical cadet at Wash- ington 1862-63, he was appointed assistant sur- geon in the United States Army in 1864. His service was somewhat extensive, including hos- pitals and field; later he served in Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina and Dakota. In 1867 he married Jeannie Augusta, daugh- ter of Owen McKinney, of Rushford, New York. His "Key to North American Birds" was published in 1872, and revised and rewritten in 1884 and in 1901 ; it "has done much to promote systematic study of ornithology in America." From 1873-1876 he was surgeon and natural- ist to the United States Northern Boundary Commission; 1876-1880 secretary and natural- ist to the United States Geological and Geo- graphical Survey of the Territories, and he edited the Survey publications. He lectured on anatomy in the medical school of Colum- bian University 1877-1882, and was professor of anatomy there 1882-1887. Resigning from the Army in 1881, he gave himself altogether to scientific work in mammalogy as well as in ornithology. He was founder of the American Ornithologists' Union, and editor of its organ. The Auk, and of other ornithological publica- tions. In 1887 he became president of the Esoteric Theosophical Society of America. Among his publications are: "Birds of the North-west" (1874); "New England Bird