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NAME MOWER 830 MUIR the "Uses of the Lymph." published in the first volume of the American Medical Jour- nal, and an essay on the "State of Medical Education in South Carolina," published in 1836 by the South Carolina Society for the Advancement of Learning. Robert Wilson, Jr. Charleston Med. Jour., 1857, vol. xii. frans. Amer. Med. Assoc, Phila., 1S78 vol. xxix. Mower, Tbomas Gardner (1790-1853) Graduating at Harvard College in 1810, he received an A. M. from the same institution in 1824. He studied medicine under Dr. Thomas Babbit, of Brookfield, Massachusetts, and in 1812 was appointed surgeon's mate in the United States Army and served with dis- tinction on the Canadian frontier. After the War of 1812 he was for several years on duty on the upper Missouri, and in 1817 took an M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. In 1844 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical So- ciety of Philadelphia. Mower was one of those men who labored earnestly and zeal- ously to advance and elevate the medical de- partment of the army. During the last years of his life he was stationed in New York, where he died December 7, 1853. Albert Allemann. Necrol. Alumni Harvard Coll., Palmer, Eost., 1864. Brown, Hist. Med. Dep. Army, Washington, 1873. Moyer, Isaac Shoemaker (1838-1898) Isaac S. Moyer, physician and zealous botanist in the local flora, was born in Harleys- vjlle, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1838. The son of Jacob Detwiler Moyer and Barbara Ann Shoemaker, he graduated at the Pennsylvania Medical College in 1859 and moved to Quaker- town, Pennsylvania, where his daily practice was combined with assiduous work collecting the flora of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. These botanical studies resulted in a catalogue with the title "Flora of Bucks County," published in W. W. H. Davis's "History of Bucks County" (1876). The list contains the names of 1,166 phaenogams and cryptogams, the number being brought up to 1,581 by Dr. Clayton D. Fretz, of Sellersvjlle, Pennsyl- vania, who was Dr. Moyer's pupil in both medicine and botany. In 1905 he revised and brought up to date Dr. Moyer's catalogue. In April, 1884, Dr. Moyer read before the Bucks County Historical Society a paper on "Indigenous and Naturalized Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Fern Allies of Bucks County" ; this was published in the first vol- ume of the papers of the Society. He was married twice — in 1859 to Laura Kratz of Plumsteadville, Pennsylvania, who died in 1869, leaving a daughter. Lilian (now Mrs. Edwin H. Bush), and in 1869 to Caro- line Fackenthal, of Easton, Pennsylvania, who survived him with their daughter, Florence Barbara (now Mrs. Charles E. van Laer). Dr. Moyer died at Quakertown, September 7, 1898. Howard A. Kelly. Personal communication from Mrs. Bush. Muir, Samuel Allan (1810-1875) Samuel Allan Muir was born in Scotland in 1810. He practised for a time in Glasgov/, Scotland, but mainly at Truro, Nova Scotia. His professional training was had at Glas- gow and at Edinburgh, and he graduated in 1834, with the L. R. C. S. (Edinburgh) and L. C. P. and S. (Glasgow). He was a member of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, and its president in 1871. After practising for a while in Glasgow, Scot- land, he came to America, but his becoming a practitioner in Nova Scotia may be called rather a matter of accident. He first came to this Province in search of his diplomas, which had been stolen from him by a young adventurer. When he observed that the majority of people in the Province owned a horse and carriage, he judged that the coun- try must be prosperous and a good one to settle in. He soon acquired a very extensive practice and was widely sought as a consult- ant. He was an excellent surgeon, fertile in resource and prompt in action. In dress he was careless, in manner brusque, in speech caustic, but still he was very popular and greatly respected. His knowledge of anatomy was both extensive and accurate, and he was a good teacher and a favorite preceptor. His favorite studies, outside of professional sub- jects, were history and metaphysics. He married a Miss Crowe, of Truro, and had three sons and two daughters, and two of his sons adopted medicine as a profession. In 1875 he died in Truro. Donald A. Campbell. Muir, William Scott (1853-1902) William Scott Muir, third son of Dr. Samuel Allan Muir, was born at Truro, Nova Scotia, in 1853, and died there in 1902. After a good education in the public schools of Truro, he began to study medicine with his father, and continued under the medical fac- ulty of Dalhousie College, Halifax, from which he graduated M. D. and C. M. in 1874. After filling the position of house surgeon at