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NAME DERBY 306 DE ROALDES cataract without any anesthetic. Realizing that the nausea and excitement which followed the use of ether were bad for the patient in these cases he got along without it. He in- spired his patients with such faith, and his control over them was so great that in very few cases was he obliged to give ether. His skill was very great, and he did a large amount of operating. Besides his large private practice he de- voted himself to hospital service, being oph- thalmic surgeon of the Massachusetts Charit- able Eye and Ear Infirmary for twenty-five years. He founded the Eye Clinic at the Carney Hospital, and for five years was the only attending ophthalmologist. He was a strict disciplinarian, but he did not fail to recognize ability in his junior officers and always gave them credit for work well done and did what he could to help them in their private practice. He took great interest in the infirmary and all that pertained to it and was active in forwarding its work. His studies abroad made him very familiar with both German and French, and he was able to read with ease both languages and to keep abreast of foreign methods. He wrote much in a forceful and practical way, many of his writings appearing in the Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society and in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. He also had a cultivated taste for the Eng- lish classics and collected a fine library. He was fond of nature and did much for the development of Mount Desert, Maine. There he was also instrumental in building a rural church, for he was a man of strong religious convictions. Besides his large private and public prac- tice he allied himself with many civic in- stitutions. For ten years he was a trustee of the Children's Institutions Department ; he was one of the original board of visiting physicians of the Danvers Hospital for the Insane. He was a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and for some years lecturer on oph- thalmology at the Harvard Medical School, and one of the organizers of the New Eng- land Ophthalmological Society, of which he was the first president. He was also one of the founders of the American Ophthalmologic- al Society, and later became its president. For many years he was a member of the Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft, and had many friends among its members. Dr. Derby died August 21, 1914, at the age of 79, his health not having been good for several years previously. He was survived by his widow, who was Miss Sarah Mason, and by a daughter and five sons, one of them following in his father's footsteps in the practice of ophthalmology. George S. Derby. Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., 1914, vol. clxxi, 397-398., Trans. Amer. Ophthal. Soc, 1915. De Roaldes, Arthur Washington (1849-1918). Arthur Washington De Roaldes, a blind oto- laryngologist and founder of the New Orleans Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, was born in Opelousas, Louisiana, January 25, 1849, the son of Dr. Abel and Coralie Testas de Folmont De Roaldes. The de Folmonts were an old south-of-France family. He was educated by the Jesuits in France, bachellier-des-lettres in 1865 and then bachellier-des-sciences. Return- ing to America, he received his medical de- gree at the University of Louisiana in 1869 and went back to France for further medical study. His ad eundem was received at the University of Paris in 1870. He served with distinction throughout the Franco-Prussian war, rescuing at one time seventeen wounded from a burning house in Bazailles during the heat of battle. In 1872 he returned to New Orleans, and was soon widely known as a general practitioner. In 1887-89 Dr. De Roaldes made a special study of the eye, ear, nose and throat in the hospitals of Europe, and returning again to New Orleans, began to practise otology and laryngology. In 1889 he founded the New Orleans Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, also known as "The Senses Hospital," and was a trustee and its surgeon-in-chief for many years. In 1890 he was made professor of dis- eases of the ear, nose, and throat in the New Orleans Polyclinic. We cannot enumerate all the honors which came to De Roaldes ; he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor, and when he founded the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, the French government promoted him and made him a grand commander in the Legion. He was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Institute of Social Sciences, and Chevalier of the Italian Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare, and com- mander of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great. He was a man of medium height and weight, of a dark complexion and brown eyes and a Van Dyke beard. His manner was alert, prompt and energetic. He was twice married, first in 1873 to Laura Pandely, who died in 1874, and in 1885 to Anna E. Miller, who sur-