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NAME FRENCH 413 FRICK found a field in which he could develop all the faculties of his extraordinary mind. He planned and organized the various Govern- ment laboratories, which now take a promi- nent place in the scientific world, form- ing one of the glories of the American oc- cupation of those islands. In 190S Freer was appointed director of the Bureau of Science and in the following year he was elected dean of the College of Medicine and Sur- gery of the Phillippine Islands. Dr. Freer was a tireless worker. With all the cares weighing upon him he found time to fill the chair of chemistry at the University of the Philippines. He was also the founder and editor of the PhUil>pinc Journal of Science. Unceasing hard work and the unfavorable climate gradually undermined his health. He died of nephritis, April 7, 1912. Dr. Freer was a chemist of note. He pub- lished a great number of articles in Ameri- can and German chemical journals besides two text-books, "The Elements of Chemistry," and "Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry." He possessed an exceptional talent of organiza- tion. The laboratories of the Philippine Is- lands and the establishment of the Bureau of Science are imperishable monuments to his name. Freer loved science for its own sake ; he was an enthusiast in his work and he knew how to impart the fire of inspiration to his pupils. Albert Allemann. Philippine Jour, of Science, Manila, 1912, vol. vii, Freer Memorial Number. French, George Franklin (1837-1897). The son of John Andrew and Mary Eliza- beth Twombly French, George was born on October 30, 1837, in Dover, New Hampshire, and fitted for college at the Dover High School, graduating from Harvard in 1859 and taking his M. D. there in 1862, the A. M. being con- ferred on him by his alma mater in 1871. After nearly a year's experience in the hospitals of Alexandria, Virginia, as acting assistant surgeon he was, in 1863, commis- sioned surgeon of the United States Volun- teers by Pres. Lincoln and entered on the personal staff of Gen. Grant, with whom he remained until the latter departed for Wash- ington in 1864, when he was assigned to duty in establishing field hospitals in the wTike of Sherman's army. On Sherman's march to the sea he was surgeon-in-chief of the first division of the fifteenth army corps. At the close of the war he was breveted lieutenant- colonel and tendered a commission in the regul.ir^, which he declined, entering into prac- tice at Portland, Maine, where he remained thirteen years, occupying also the chairs of physiology, practice of medicine and obstetrics in the Portland School of Medical Instruc- tion. On October 14, 1862, he married Clara A., daughter of Dr. Levi G. Hill of Dover, New Hampshire. In 1879, on account of the ill health of his wife, he removed to the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he lived until his death. Here he was at once ac- corded first rank by his professional brethren. He had the zeal of a true humanitarian, labor- ing assiduously and earnestly to build and foster hospitals and a school of medicine in his adopted city, where he died on July 13, 1897. He was one of the founders and incorpora- tors of the Minnesota College Hospital and pro- fessor of gynecology there, later occupying the same chair in the Minnesota Hospital College, now the University of Minnesota ; president of the Medical Society of Maine and the Ameri- can Medical Association. His contributions to the current medical literature of his day are in "The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion," "The Maine Medical Transactions," America Journal of Obstclrics, and the "Reports of the American Medical Association." BuRNSiDE Foster Frick, Charles (1823-1860). Charles Frick, a son of the Hon. William Frick. judge of the Superior Court of Balti- more City, was born in Baltimore on August 8, 1823. Educated at Baltimore College, he after- wards studied engineering, but after three years abandoned this intention and in 1843 began to study medicine under Dr. Thomas H. Buckler. In 1845 he graduated M. D. in the University of Maryland, his inaugural thesis being on "Puerperal Fever," the con- tagious character of which he maintained in accordance with the view then recently ad- vanced by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and he supported his opinion by cases observed by himself at a time when the character of the disease in this respect was not so generally admitted. An important pamphlet from his pen in 1846, in which Dr. Washington V. Anderson was associated with him, consisted of cases illustrating the pigmentary changes in the liver in remittent fever corresponding with the observations of Dr. Stewardson, which were then new. While still an undergraduDle, Dr. Frick gave much attention to the study of renal pathology and published, in 1830, his work on