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110 a good foundation for work in that line, attending the lectures outside of her office hours. Afterward she studied electricity as applied to medicine under Dr. Rockwell in the Post-graduate School of New York City. In 1888 she removed her office to 546 Columbus Avenue, Boston, where she continued her work as a general practitioner and electrotherapeutist for twelve years. At the end of that period the death of her mother, to whom she was devotedly attached, so affected her health that she felt compelled to temporarily relinquish her practice. She then went to Europe for the double purpose of recuperating and of studying more deeply the science of electrotherapeutics. The latter object was accomplished under Dr. Planet, of Paris, France, the skilled assistant of the late Dr. Apostle, and in the large hospital at Vienna. When she returned to Boston, .she removed her office to "The Marlborough," 416 Marlborough Street, where she is now practising.

Dr. Gary has occupied in the Boston University School of Medicine the positions of demonstrator in anatomy and lecturer in osteology and electrotherapeutics. She is a member of the National Society of Electrotherapeutists, of which she has served as secretary in 1894, second vice-president in 1895, first vice-president in 1896, and presitlent in 1897. She is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, Massachusetts Surgical and Gynecological Society, Boston Homceopathic Medical Society, and La Socicte Fran^aise d'Electrotherapie et de Radiologic, Paris, France. In nearly all of these societies she has held official positions.

Dr. Gary is also a member of many social organizations, and has written many articles and papers bearing upon medical and scientific sub- jects. It is hardly needful to say that one of her greatest delights is in helping women less fortunate than herself. In religious affiliations she is a Baptist, having united at the very early age of fourteen with the First Baptist Church of Montpelier, Vt., a church which her father and mother were largely instrumental in establishing. She is now a member of the First Baptist Church, Clarendon Street, Boston.

FLORENCE BARKER, the first President of the National Woman's Relief, Corps (elected in July, 1883), was for nearly a quarter of a century a resident of Maiden, Mass., where. .she died September 11, 1897. She was the daughter of William A. and Mary J. (Skinner) Whittredge, was born in Lynnfield, Mass., March 29, 1840, and was educated in the public school of Lynnfield and at the academy in Thetford, Vt.

On June 18, 1863, she, then E. Florence Whittredge, became the wife of Colonel Thomas Erskine Barker, of Gilmanton, N.H., he being on a furlough, recovering from wounds received in the battle of Chancellorsville. In July of the same year Colonel Barker was able to resume command of his regiment, the Twelfth New Hampshire. His bride joined him in August at Point Lookout, Md., and remained at the front until the following April. Her tent was tastefully decorated, and was a cheerful rendezvous for the officers. This experience gained of camp life during wartime increased her regard for the Union soldiers, whom she so often met in camp and hospitals, for Mrs. Barker was intensely patriotic.

After the close of the war Colonel and Mrs. Barker settled in Maiden, Mass. When the Grand Army of the Republic was formed, Mrs. Barker became deeply interested in its success. She joined Major-general H. G. Berry Relief Corps, auxiliary to Post No. 40, G. A. R., in May, 1879, and served as its President four years in succession. At the convention of the Department of Massachusetts W. R. C. in 1880 she was elected Department Senior Vice-President, and in 1881 was re-elected. She was chosen Department President the following year, and filled the office so acceptably that she was re-elected in 1883.

Eighteen corps were instituted during her administration. While presiding over the State convention in Boston, January, 1883, she had the pleasure of welcoming Paul Van Der Voort, of Omaha, Neb., Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, and other prominent comrades. That the eloquent manner in which Mrs. Barker reviewed the work and principles of the Woman's Relief Corps impressed the commander-in-chief with the value of such an