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He was descended from Rev. Archibald Campbell, of Argyleshire, Scotland, who was minister of Washington parish, West- moreland county, and of "Round Hill Church," King George county, from 1754 to 1774. Archibald Campbell had a son Archibald, who was the father of Ferdinand Stuart Campbell, professor of mathematics in William and Mary College about 1826 and later. This latter, the father of the sub- ject of this sketch, inherited a fortune from the Stuarts of Scotland, and adding Stuart to his name called himself Ferdinand Stuart Campbell Stuart. His son, Ferdinand Camp- bell Stuart, studied at William and Mary, and afterwards took medicine at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1837, and for five years pur- sued professional studies in Edinburgh and P'aris. On his return, he engaged in prac- tice in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he was family physician to President John Tyler, and who proffered him various ap- pointments, which his devotion to his pro- fession obliged him to decline. He soon re- moved to New York City, where he was placed in charge of the medical and surgical wards of Bellevue Hospital, and also gave instructions to students in his office, as well 2L?. at clinics in 1844-45. I" 1847-48, during an epidemic of typhus fever, he cared for two hundred patients daily. When the Siaten Island Marine Hospital was estab- lished, in connection with the quarantine station, he was made its first physician. In 1855 he visited England, to obtain prop- erly left him at the death of his father. He was a member of various professional soci- eties in Europe, as well as in the United States. The founding of the New York Academy of Medicine was largely due to his

effort ; he was its secretary until he removed from New York, was vice-president three years, and on several occasions was the anniversary orator. He was a leader in the movements leading to the establishment of the American Medical Association, in 1847, and a member* of the committee that drafted its constitution. He was the inventor of various instruments used in genito-urinary diseases. His contributions to professional literature were numerous.

Catesby, Mark, born in England, about 1680. A taste for natural science led him, after studying in London, to come to Vir- ginia, where he arrived April 23, 1712, and occupied himself in collecting its various productions. He returned to England in 1719, with a rich collection of plants, but, at the suggestion of Sir Hans Sloane and other eminent naturalists, re-embarked for America with the purpose of collecting and describing its most curious natural objects. He arrived May 23, 1722. explored the lower part of South Carolina, and afterward lived for some time among the Indians at Fort Moore, on Savannah river, three hundred miles from the sea. He made excursions into Georgia and Florida, and, after spend- ing three years in this country, visited the Bahama islands. He returned to England in 1726. and published in numbers "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Hahama Islands." This work contained the first descriptions of several plants now cultivated in all European gardens. The figures were etched by himself from his own paintings, and the colored copies executed under his inspection. Catesby was a fellow of the Royal Society, to whose transactions he contributed a paper on '* Birds of Pas-

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