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 ELLICOTT ELLIOTSON San Lorenzo el Real, to determine the south- ern boundary separating the United States ter- ritory from the Spanish possessions. The results of this service, embracing a period of nearly five years, appear in his "Journal" (4to, with 6 maps, Philadelphia, 1803). Upon the completion of this service he was appointed by Gov. McKean of Pennsylvania secretary of the state land office, from which he retired in 1808, and in 1812 he became professor of math- ematics at West Point, a post which he occu- pied till his death. In 1817, by order of the government, he went to Montreal to make as- tronomical observations for carrying into effect some of the articles of the treaty of Ghent. He was an active member of the American philosophical society, and maintained corre- spondence with the learned societies of Europe ; but with the exception of his " Journal," contri- butions to philosophical societies, and a few other writings, his works are yet in manuscript. II. Joseph, brother of the preceding, born in Pennsylvania, died in Batavia, N. Y., in 1826. In 1790 he assisted his brother Andrew in lay- ing out the city of Washington, and in 1791 was appointed to run the boundary line be- tween Georgia and the Creek Indians ; and for a long period, embracing the most active por- tion of his life, he was engaged in the service of the Holland land company. He was identi- fied with the great public improvements of the state of New York. ELLICOTT, Charles John, an English prelate and author, born at Whitwell, near Stamford, April 25, 1819. He graduated at St. John's college, Cambridge, in 1841, and was rector of Pilton, Rutlandshire, from 1848 to 1858, when he succeeded Dr. Trench as professor of divin- ity in King's college, London. In 1860 he be- came Hulsean professor of divinity at Cam- bridge, in 1861 dean of Exeter, and in 1863 bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. His works are: " Treatise on Analytical Statics" (1842); "History and Obligation of the Sabbath" (1844); "Critical and Grammatical Commen- taries " on the epistles of St. Paul to the Gala- tians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thes- salonians, and Philemon, and on the " Pastoral Epistles" (1854-'61); "Lectures on the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ " (1860) ; and " Con- siderations on the Revision of the English Ver- sion of the New Testament " (1870). He has also published many addresses, lectures, ser- mons, and charges. His commentaries are highly esteemed, and are used as text books in English and American seminaries. ELLICOTT CITY (formerly ELLIOOTT'S MILLS), the county seat of Howard co., Maryland, situ- ated on both sides of the Patapsco river, partly in Baltimore co., about 10 m. W. of the city of Baltimore and on the Baltimore and Ohio rail- road; pop. in 1870, 1,722, of whom 355 were colored. The water power is excellent, and supplies several flour mills and manufactories. The town is the seat of St. Charles college (Roman Catholic), organized in 1848, which in 1871 had 12 professors and instructors, 180 students, and a library of 4,000 volumes. Rock Hill college, also a Roman Catholic institution, organized in 1857, had in 1872 22 professors and instructors, 156 students, and a library of 6,800 volumes. The town was settled in 1774 by the brothers Andrew and John Ellicott, whose large flouring mills here at one time held pre- cedence in extent and perfection over all simi- lar establishments in the country. It was in- corporated under its present name in 1867. ELLIOT, George Thomson, an American phy- sician, born in New York, May 11, 1827, died there, Jan. 29, 1871. He received his aca- demic education at Columbia college, gradu- ated in medicine at the university of New York in 1849, and subsequently spent three years in professional study abroad, during which period he was resident interne in the lying-in hospital of Dublin, and of the royal maternity hospital in Edinburgh. Upon his return in 1852 he was made resident physi- cian to the New York lying-in asylum, and in 1854 attending physician to the Bellevue hos- pital. In 1858 and 1859 he was lecturer on operative midwifery in the college of physi- cians and surgeons, New York, and in 1861 became professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in the Bellevue hospital medical college, an institution of which he was one of the founders. He wrote much for medi- cal journals, but his principal work was " Ob- stetric Clinic" (1868), giving the results of midwifery cases selected from his own prac- tice. On June 26, 1870, he had a severe at- tack of apoplexy with hemiplegia, which came on while he was engaged upon a case of opera- tive midwifery. From this he partially recov- ered, but on Jan. 28, 1871, he had a second attack, which proved fatal. ELLIOTSON, John, an English physician and physiologist, born in London about 1790, died there, July 29, 1868. He was educated at Je- sus college, Cambridge, studied medicine and surgery in Edinburgh, and at St. Thomas's and Guy's hospitals in London, and in 1822 was elected physician to the former institution. Sub- sequently he became lecturer on the practice of medicine in St. Thomas's hospital, and in 1831 professor of the principles and practice of medicine and of clinical medicine in Univer- sity college, London, in connection with which three years later he established a hospital, when he resigned his professorship at St. Thomas's. As a lecturer he obtained great popularity, though in attempting to reform the old routine of the hospitals he incurred the hostility of many of the profession. He was the founder and president of the phre- nological society, and the president of the royal medical and chirurgical society. He had many disputes with members of the profession with regard to the use of certain remedies, now established, and advocated mesmerism as a remedy in some diseases and an agent for allay- ing pain in surgical operations. The unwill-