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NAME KNIGHT 670 KNIGHT Knieskern was the author of a "Catalogue of plants found in the county of Oneida," in the 5Sth annual report of the Regents of the Uni- versity of New York (1842), and "A cata- logue of plants growing without cultivation in the counties of Monmouth and Ocean, New Jersey," forming a supplement to the third an- nual report of the Geological Survey of New Jersey (1857). He was a valued correspon- dent of several well-known American botan- ists, and merits particular remembrance be- cause of his influence upon the life of the Or- iskany boy who afterward became Dr. George Vasey (q. v.), for many 'ears botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture. Two sedges, Carex Knieskernii and Ryncho- spora Knieskernii, both named for him by Prof. Chester Dewey (q. v.), serve to keep his memory green. ^^^^ jj Barnhart. Amer. Jour. Sci. & Arts, 3d series, 1871, vol. ii. Knight, Charles Huntoon (1849-1913) Charles Huntoon Knight, son of Hon. Hor- atio Gates and Mary Ann Huntoon Knight, was born November 22, 1849, in Easthampton, Massachusetts, where his father, at one time Lieutenant Governor of the State, was a promi- nent manufacturer. He entered Williams Col- lege from Williston Seminary, and was gradu- ated with the class of 1871. While an under- graduate he became a member of the Lambda Chapter of Delta Phi. Among other attainments of his tmdergraduate days Dr. Knight excelled in athletics. He was proficient in baseball and as an accomplished general g>'mnast had few equals. His physical development was admi- rable, and was maintained for many years by regular and systematic e.xercise. Following his graduation from Williams College he came to New York in the autumn of 1871 and began the study of medicine at the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, under the preceptorship of Thomas M. Markoe (q.v.). Receiving the degree of M.D. in March, 1874, after a few months spent in special study, he served a year and a half as interne in the Roosevelt Hospi- tal. In the summer of 1876 he went abroad. At the time of his return the New York Hos- pital had been removed from the ancient quar- ters in lower Broadway to its fine new build- ings in Sixteenth Street, and Dr. Knight was appointed for six months medical and surgical house officer in charge to help organize the in- stitution and to train the interne staff. In September, 1877, he began private practice, and the next year became associated with the late Dr. Freeman J. Bumstead (q.v.). The department with which Professor Bum- stead was associated did not appeal to Dr. Knight. It was not long before he became in- terested in the diseases of the upper air pas- sages. After several years of study he de- termined to relinquish general surgery and to devote himself exclusively to that department. Availing himself of the best opportunities for clinical observation, and reading extensively on the subject he soon proved himself a prac- titioner and an authority of the first rank. He was possessed of quick and accurate percep- tion, sound judgment and remarkable manual dexterity. His contributions to the literature of laryngology and rhinology were of a high order of scientific merit; original, reliable and scholarly, while he was a master of style in the use of language. In addition to his other duties Dr. Knight served as lecturer on diseases of the nose and throat in the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital from 1888 to 1890. He held the chair of professor of laryngology in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School from 1892 to 1898, when he was elected pro- fessor of diseases of the throat and nose in the medical department of Cornell University, a position he held until 1910. He was sur- geon to the throat department of the Man- hattan Eye and Ear Hospital, and consulting larv'ngologist to St. Luke's Hospital, Bayonne, New Jersey. Among the medical societies in which Dr. Knight maintained active membership were the New York Academy of Medicine, the Amer- ican Academy of Medicine, the American Laryngological Association, of which he be- came a fellow in 1885, secretary from 1889 t( 1896, and president in 1896-97; the American Medical Association, the Therapeutic Society, New York Pathological Society, the Hospital Graduates Club, and the societies of the alumni of the New York and Roosevelt Hos- pitals. Besides frequent articles and contributions to publications of various medical societies, Dr. Knight wrote : "A Year-book of Sur- gen- for 1883," and a text-book upon "Dis- eases of the Nose, Throat and Ear, 1903," of which several editions were published, the lat- est in 1910. He was married to Mrs. Lucy Tolford Mac- kenzie, of New York, on June 28, 1893, and she survived him. Dr. Knight was not only a brilliant physi- cian and writer, but a man of wide and liberal culture. A lover of art in all forms, he ex- celled especially as a musician. Possessed of good vocal ability, he was for many years an