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NAME GARCEAU 422 GARCELON depleted condition forced him to the mountains of central Pennsylvania, where he died at Renova, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1881. He was laid away in the old family burying ground on the farm. In 1885 his brother, Hiram L. Garber, sold for a nominal sum the Garber herbarium to Franklin and Marshall College, with the under- standing that it should be known, as "The Abram Paschal Garber Herbarium ;" part of this collection has been transferred to Colum- bia University and part to the Botanical Garden in New York, in exchange. Dried plants of Dr. Garber's are in the United States National Herbarium in the Smithsonian Institution; 142 Porto Rican plants are in Kew Gardens, London ; other plants are in the Gray Herbarium at Har- vard, and at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Asa Gray named a genus of thistles Garberia after him; a beautiful palm, Coccothrinax Garberi, a morning-glory, Convolvulus Garberi, and a moss, Fissidens Garberi. Xanthoxylum emarginatuni is a West Indies species found by Garber on an island in Bay Biscayne in 1877, "growing as a small shrub. It has not since been seen in the United States, although the shores of Bay Biscayne have been several times explored by botanists" (Sargent). An appreciative biographical sketch was pub- lished by the Lancaster County Historical Society (1914, xviii, No. 8) from the pen of George C. Keidel, Ph. D. John W. Harshberger. The Silva of North America, C. S. Sargent, 1891, vol. i. 65-66. Botanists of Philadelphia, J. W. Harshberger, 1899, 302-303. Garceau, Edgar (1865-1913) Edgar Garceau, Boston urologist, gyne- cologist and author, was born in Roxbury (Boston), Massachusetts, December 26, 1865. His father, Treffle Garceau, whose ancestors came to Canada from Picardie, France, prac- tised in Roxbury after 1863, the year he had come to Boston from Montreal, his native city. Edgar's mother was Emelia O. De Angelis, whose ancestors were Neapolitans. Edgar was graduated from the Roxbury Latin School in 1884 and from Harvard Med- ical School in 1890, serving as interne in the Boston City Hospital, and then going to study surgery in Paris, France. Settling in Boston, he became connected with St. Elizabeth's Hos- pital as gynecologist to out-patients and with the Free Hospital for Women in the same capacity. Later he was visiting gynecologist to the former and to the Boston Dispensary. He evinced a studious disposition, became much interested in the use of electricity, in the treatment of the diseases of women, and went to Paris to study under Georges Apostoli, later translating some of his papers into Eng- lish. His next great interest was the diseases of the urinary organs in the female and he published "Ureteritis in the Female," Amer. Jour. Med. Sci., Feb., 1903 ; "Results of Oper- ations on the Kidney for Tuberculosis," Ann. Surg., Oct., 1903; "Cystites Rebelles chez la Femme," in Annales des Maladies des Organes Genito-Urinaires, Paris, April, 1904, and in the succeeding years published a long series of articles in the American Journal of Obstetrics, the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, and other medical periodicals. Finally, in 1909, he brought out his chief work, "Renal, Ureteral, Perirenal and Adrenal Tumors and Actinomycosis and Echinococcus of the Kidney," a well illustrated volume of 421 pages. Dr. Garceau married Sally Holmes Morse, of Taunton, May 6, 1905, and the union was blessed with three sons. Among the societies of which he was a mem- ber may be mentioned : The Obstetrical So- ciety of Boston, American Urological Asso- ciation, American Gynecological Society, L'Association Frangaise D'Urologie, Asso- ciation Internationale D'Urologies. Garceau was inventive and perfected a urethroscope, several cystoscopes that are figured in his book, and a conical catheter. In person, he was tall and dark and he took life seriously, but was a most devoted husband and father and a true friend. He died of recurrent carcinoma of the cheek in Boston, April 29, 1913. Walter L. Burrage. Family Records. Bost. Med. & Surg. Jour., 1913, vol. clxvui, 712. Hist. Har. Med. Sch., T. F. Harrington, 1906. Garcelon, Alonzo (1813-1906) Alonzo Garcelon, the great-grandson of David Davis, one of the earliest pioneers of New England, and a man distinguished in his native state, deserves careful mention. He was born in Lewiston, Maine, May 6, 1813. the son of Col. William and of Mary Davis Garcelon. As a boy he lived mostly on a farm of his father's in the outskirts of the city and worked on it tilling the soil, but he had an excellent education at the academies in Monmouth, Waterville, and New Castle, Maine, and gradu- ated at Bowdoin College in the class of 1836, afterwards teaching school at Alfred, Maine,