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NAME LOOMIS 718 LOVEJOY Board of Health. Upon the organization of the Cornell University Medical College in New York City in 1898, he was chosen to fill the chair of materia medica and therapeutics. He was an active and talented contributor to medical literature, and especially to the "Transactions of the Climatological Associa- tion," his last paper being a very timely "Plea for the Systematic Study of Climatology in the Medical Schools" (1906), that deserves the careful study of every physician. Charles E. Nammack. Loomis, Silas Lawrence (1822-1896) Silas Lawrence Loomis was the son of Silas and Esther Case Loomis and was born in Coventry, Connecticut, May 22, 1822. When five years old his father died. He taught school in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 1837-43, in this way being able to work his way through college, graduating in 1844 at Wesleyan Llni- versity, Middletown, Connecticut. In 184S he married Betsy Ann Tidd, who died in 1850. The next year he married Abigail Paine. He was appointed in 1857 astronomer to the Lake Coast Survey and in 1860 special instructor in mathematics, United States Naval Acad- emy, Annapolis, and ordered on a cruise at sea. In 1861 he became professor of chemistry and toxicology in Georgetown Medical College, but resigned in 1867. During the war of 1861-5 he was acting assistant surgeon. United States Army ; served in the Army of the Potomac on the staff of Gen. McClellan, and also in military hospitals in Washington. Associated with others in founding Howard University, he is said to have suggested a university instead of a college and to have organized the medical department. In 1878 he was employed by the United States Department of Agricul- ture collecting special statistics of food prod- ucts of the United States, and estimated the population of the United States in 1880, being in error only by 18,000. He discovered a pro- cess and invented machinery for making textile fiber from varieties of the palm in 1878. He wrote "Normal Arithmetic," 1859; "Ana- lytical Arithmetic," 1860; and "Education and Health of Women," 1882. His A. M. was from Howard University, his M. D. (1857) from Georgetown. He died June 22, 1896. Daniel Smith Lamb. Appleton's Cyclop, of Amer. Biog., N. Y., 138S. Twentieth Century Biog.- Dictny. Lamb's Hist, of the Med. Dept. of Howard Univ., Wash., D. C, 1900. Loring, Edward Greely (1837-1888) Edward Greely Loring was born in Boston, Sept. 28, 1837, and began his medical studies in Florence, Italy, in 1859, continuing them at Pisa. In 1862 he returned to Boston, entered Harvard Medical School, graduated in 1864 and became an externe in the ophthalmic clin- ic of the Boston City Hospital and the Massa- chusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. In 1865 he began practice in Baltimore, but in the following year left for New York to be the associate of C. R. Agnew (q.v.). He became surgeon to the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital, the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospi- tal, and later the New York Eye and Ear In- firmary, and a member of the American Oph- thalmological Society in 1865. He died of an- gina pectoris, April 23, 1888. Loring was a prolific writer, his most not- able work being his well known and admirable "Text-book on Ophthalmoscopy" published in 1886. By his writings on ophthalmological sub- jects and by his perfection of the ophthalmo- scope (which is still one of the most popular instruments) he did far more than any other one man to place American ophthalmology abreast with that of the world. Harry Friedenwald. Trans. Amer. Oph. Soc, vol. v. Portrait. Lovejoy, James William Hamilton (1824- 1901) James William Hamilton Lovejoy was born December 15, 1824, in Washington, District of Columbia. His father, John Naylor Lovejoy, Jr., was of Georgetown ; his mother was Ann Beddo, of Montgomery County, Man,'land. He went as a boy to private schools in Washing- ton, and graduated A. B., 1844, A. M., 1847, Columbian College, District of Columbia. Af- ter teaching school a few years he studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical College, Phil- adelphia. After graduation in 1851 he returned to Washington and engaged in general practice. He was appointed professor of chemistry in the Georgetown Medical School, 1851, and be- came professor of materia medica in 1880; in 1883, professor of theory and practice of med- icine ; he resigned in 1898 and was appointed emeritus professor. For five years he was dean and ten years president of the medical faculty. He was active in the management of many charitable institutions, being one of the found- ers of the Garfield Hospital, and serving as a consultant until death. In 1881 he was elected director and consulting physician to the Chil- dren's Hospital. In 1893, when the training school was established in connection with the