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 posure, and with his pay hopelessly in arrears, and died at the early age of thirty-seven. It is curious to note that his father subsequently redeemed his claims for pay at the figure of twelve hundred pounds, and was thereby saved from poverty in old age.

Of his fellow members in the “Anatomical Society” we may subjoin that both Dr. Townsend and Dr. Eustis immediately volunteered as regimental surgeons, but were obviously too good for the medical riffraff that surrounded them; within a year or two they were both promoted to the Hospital Department, where they rendered distinguished services until the very end of the conflict. After acting as a surgeon at the time of Shays’ Rebellion, Eustis gave up medicine and entered the field of politics, where he won new laurels as Governor of Massachusetts, Member of Congress, Minister to the Netherlands, and Secretary of War. Townsend practised with reputation in Boston, and at the time of his death, in 1829, was president of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. His gravestone, reciting his