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Rh b. in Philadelphia, Pa.. 1 Oct.. 1827; 'I. there, H Feb., 1883, was graduated ;it .letl'er-nn medical college in 1848, after studying under Dr. Robert M. Huston. During the last two years of his student life he served as cliniral a Distant to Dr. Thomas D. Mutter and Dr. Joseph Pancoast. In 1v,n in- was elected professor of chemistry in the Franklin institute, and he also held a similar chair in the Philadelphia medical college in 185:!-'(>4. Froiu 1852 till 186-1 he was secretary of the Phila- delphia academy of natural sciences. In 1864 he accepted the professorship of chemistry in Jeffer- son medical college, which he held until his resig- nation in 1877 Dr. Rand was elected a fellow of the Philadelphia college of physicians in ls.">:;. a fellow of the American philosophical society in 1868, and, besides membership in other societies, was connected with the American medical as-oei- ation. He made many contributions to medical journals, edited the third edition of Dr. Samuel L. Metcalf's " Caloric : its Agencies on the Phenome- na of Nature " (Philadelphia, 1859), and was the author of " An Outline of Medical Chemistry " (1855) and " Elements of Medical Chemistry " (1863). Another son, Theodore Delion, mineralo- gist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 16 Sept., 1836, was educated at the Academy of the Protestant Epis- copal church in Philadelphia, and then studied law. After his admission to the bar he opened an office in his native city, and has since continued in practice. Mr. Rand early turned his attention to natural science, especially to mineralogy, and his cabinet of specimens ranks as one of the best pri- vate collections in the United States, containing very nearly a complete set of the rocks and miner- als of Philadelphia and its vicinity. In 1871 he became a member of the board of managers of the Franklin institute, and since 1873 he has been treasurer of the American institute of mining en- gineers. Mr. Rand has been a member of the council of the Philadelphia academy of natural sciences since 1875, and director of its mineralogical and geo- logical section. His publications include many papers nil the mineralogy and geology of Philadel- phia ami its vicinity in the transactions of scientific societies of which he is a member, and he has pre- pared a geological map and explanatory text for the reports of the geological survey of Pennsylvania.

RAND, Edward Spragne, merchant, b. in Newburyport, Mass., in 1782; d. there in Novem- ber, 1863. He was educated at the Dummer acade- my in his native place, and afterward entered his father's store as a clerk. When he was eighteen years of age he went to Europe as a supercargo, anil before he was twenty-one lie was established as a commission merchant in Amsterdam. Leav- in_r that city, he made voyages to the Canary isl- and-, Havana, and elsewhere, and after revisiting this country he went to Russia. On his return from St. Petersburg in 1810 he was shipwrecked on the Naze, Norway. Alter the treaty of peace with Great Britain in 1815 he was for many years en- gaged in the East India trade. In 1821, with others, he purchased a woollen-mill at Salisbury, now known as the Salisbury mills, of which he was for a long time president. In 1827 he withdrew from commerce and engaged in manufacturing. From 1S27 till 1835 he was president of the Me- chanics' bank. Xewburyport, and he sat for several years in each branch of the legislature. He was often a delegate to the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church. His grandson, Ed- ward Spraffue, floriculturist, b. in Boston, 20 Oct., 1834; d. in Para, Brazil, 28 Sept., 18H7, was gradu- ated at Harvard at the law-school in 1857, and formed a partnership with his father. li time to floriculture and literature at He devoted much his home at Dedliam, Mass. lie assisted in Flint's edition of Harris on Insects Injurious to Vegeta- tion " (Boston, 1862), edited the floral department of " The Homestead," and partially prepared a new edition of Dr. Jacob Bigelow's " Florida Bosto- niensis." He had published " Life Memoirs, and other Poems " (Boston. 1859) ; " Flowers for t he Par- lor and Garden " (1863) : Garden Flowers " (1866) ; "Bulbs" (1866); Seventy-five Popular Flowers, and How to cultivate Them "(1870): "The Rhodo- dendron and American Plants" (1871): "Windnw Gardener" (1872); and "Complete Manual of Or- chid Culture " (New York, 1876).

RAND, Isaac, physician, b. in Charlestown, Mass., 27 April, 1743 :'d. in Boston, Mass., 11 Dec., 1822. He was graduated at Harvard in 1761, stud- ied medicine with his father, of the same name, in Charlestown, and in 1764 settled in Boston, where he remained during the siege, and ultimately be- came one of the most noted practitioners of his time. From 1798 till 1804 he was president of the Massachusetts medical society, and he was also a corresponding member of the London medical so- ciety. Dr. Rand published papers on "Hydro- cephalus Internus " (1785); "Yellow Fever" (1798) ; and on "The L T se of Warm Bath and Digi- talis in Pulmonary Consumption " (1804).

'''RAND. Silas Tertins''', Canadian clergyman, b. in Cornwallis, N. S., 17 May, 1810; d. in Hands- port, 4 Oct., 1889. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry, and became a missionary among the Mic- mae Indians. Acadia college gave him the degree of D. D. in 1886, and Queen's university that of LL. D. in the same year. Dr. Rand was a fine lin- guist, and read with ease thirteen languages. He rescued the Micmac tongue from oblivion, and translated the whole of the New Testament, most of the Old, and many tracts and hymns, into that language. He has wrote a grammar, and a dic- tinnary which contains thirty thousand Micmac w..nK and had in his study 12.000 pages of fools- cap manuscript giving the legends of the tribe. In this way he preserved eighty-four tales, tradi- tions, and legends of the Canadian aborigines. The Dominion government, at the request of sev- eral college presidents, purchased for preservation the manuscript of his Micmac dictionary for .$1,000. The Smithsonian institution at Washington ob- tained from Dr. Rand a list of all his Indian work- for publication in the "North American Linguistics or Bibliography." " Algonquin Le- gend-." by Charles G. Lelatid (Boston, 1884). con- tains 120 pages of Dr. Rand's material. He also, wrote " Legends of the Micmaes" (New York. 1MI4>.

RAND, Theodore Harding. Canadian educator, b. in Cornwallis. Nova Scotia, in 1835. His father was first cousin to Dr. Silas T. Rand. The son was graduated at Acadia college in 1860. and appointed the same year to the chair of classics at the Provincial normal school, Truro, N. S. He travelled in Great Britain and the United State- to make a special study of common-school education, and has lectured and written on the subject. In isiil lie became superintendent of education for Nova Scotia, and in 1871 he was appointed to the same post in New Brunswick to establish the free-school system in that province. In 1883 he became professor of history and didactics in Acadia college, in 1885 he was appointed professor in the Baptist college at Toronto, and in 1886 he was given the presidency of the Baptist collet ,ii Woodstock. Ont. He received the degree of D. C. L. from Acadia college in 1874.