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NAME HOY 571 HOYT attested by the catalogues of that medical school, for the years of 1843 and 1846. His writings numbered twelve titles, the best known being his "Annual Discourse" on "Quackery," already referred to, and a paper on "Fear in Connection with Medicine," read before the Middlesex Medical Association in 1831. edited by Elisha Bartlett and published in 1832. His method of collecting his tnedical charges was unique, and may have had something to do with his leaving, when he died, thirty-thou- sand dollars for the erection and maintenance of an academy in Billerica for instruction in the higher branches of English education, the "Howe School.'' Most of his patients were •farmers and had little ready money. At the beginning of each year Dr. Howe prepared notes with receipted bills, and, calling on his patrons, proposed settlement of accounts by their signing these notes, with the result that the notes and interest were of much more value than the customary doctor's disputed bills. During his lifetime no one could find out why he purchased a lot of land in the cen- tre of the town and surrounded it with a fence and trees, many thinking that it was to be his last resting-place. The land was bought twenty years before his death and only when his will was read was it learned that the lot was for the academy. Dr. Howe was never married, although his biographer tells us that he believed firmly in matrimony and was an inveterate match- maker. Walter L. Bukr.ge, The Early Phys. of Lowell and Vicinity, D. N. Patterson, M. D., Lowell, 1883. Hoy, Philo Romayne (1816-1892). Philo Romayne Hoy, who did much for the State of Wisconsin as a natural scientist, was descended from an old Scotch family named Hawey, one of whom fought at Flodden and was sold to an English family but eloped with his master's daugh- ter to Ireland. Three of his male descend- ents escaped from a difficulty with a public officer by coming over to the United States in 1756, and from these came the father of Philo, Capt. William Hoy, who gave his boy the best local education he could and let him study medicine under Dr. Alexander McCoy. The student graduated from the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati and six years later be- gan to practise in New Haven, Ohio, and afterwards in Racine, Wisconsin, first marry- ing Mary Elizabeth Austin, who died in 1872 leaving three children, Albert Harris, who be- came a physician ; Jenny Rebecca and Philo Romayne. The new country to which he came was com- paratively unknown so far as its natural re- sources were concerned, and Hoy went to work to make a complete collection of flora and fauna, especially of native woods, shells and fossils. He welcomed all the naturalists who came to see him and corresponded with such men as Agassiz, Henry and Kirtland. His collection went to Racine, Wisconsin, the in- terests of whose college he had done so much to promote. His writings were chiefly in the "Transac- tions of the Wisconsin Academy of Science." "How did the Aborigines of This Country fabricate Copper Instruments?" vol. iv ; "Who built the Mounds?" vol. v; "Who made the Ancient Copper Implements?" vol. v, etc., and, in vol. i of the "Geology of Wisconsin," "A Catalogue of Wisconsin Lepidoptera" ; "A List of Noctuidse in Wisconsin," and A Cata- logue of Cold-blooded Vertebrates." His name has been perpetuated in making him godfather to some three or four fossils and four fauna (the arthoceras Hoyi; etc.). There are many American physicians bound up vnth the natural history of the diff'erent States in the same way, though dust has gathered, and few now know aught connected with their names. Paris made Hoy a member of the Entomological Society of France, and he was also naturalist of a United States Survey and a fellow or member of the lead- ing academies of science in America. He contrived, though continuing a large 'practice, to gather one of the largest local natural history collections, believing that a local museum attains ever increasing value in view of the destruction of forests and the in- crease of inhabitants, thus leading to the ex- termination of many species. He died suddenly in 1892. Davina Waterson. Wisconsin Acad. Science, vol. ix. Personal Commun. from his daughter. Hoyt, Frank Crampton (1859-1901). Frank Crampton Hoyt, alienist, was born in Denver, Colorado, November 17, 1859. He graduated in medicine at the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons at St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1881. Afterwards he pursued a course of study in pathology at the University of Kentucky at Louisville. He founded and edited the St. Joseph Medical Herald. He had a scholarly mind and a talent for writing, as was shown by the numerous papers which he read before