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in England, Germany, Italy and Greece. He was elected a member of the American Philolog- ical association in 1886 ; of the Archeeological Institute of America, 1898 ; of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain in 1898, and was made a member of the managing committee of the School in Rome. He was married Sept. 8, 1869, to Mary Louisa, daughter of Lemuel Tyler and Eugenia (Thomas) Downing. The honorary de- gree of A.M. was conferred on him by Williams college in 1888, and that of LL.D. by Union col- lege in 1895.

HEWSON, Addinell, surgeon, was born in Phihidelphia, Pa.. Nov. 22, 1828; son of Dr. Thomas Tickell and Emily (Banks) Hewson. He was prepared for college at the grammar school of the university and was graduated from the University of Penns\-lvauia. A.B., 1847, A.M., 1850, and from Jefferson Medical college in 1850, continuing his studies under Sir William Wilde at St. Mark's hospital, and in Dublin at the Rotunda hospital. He was resident surgeon to the Pennsylvania hospital, 1851-52 ; visiting sur- geon to the Episcopal hospital. 1853-55. and to. the summer school of Jefferson Medical college, 1855-61 ; surgeon to Wills hospital, 1855-64. and resident surgeon to the Pennsylvania hospital, 1861-67. While at the last-named hospital he ex- tracted a ball from the side of General Meade just before tlie battle of Gettysburg. He was elected a fellow of the College of Phj'sicians, Philadelphia, 1853, and a member of the Academy of National Sciences. Philadelphia, 1853 ; of the American Medical association, 1855 ; of the Inter- national Medical association in 1887 ; of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania ; of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, organized in his office April 21, 1879 ; of the Philadelphia County Medical society, and of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia. He was married Nov. 22, 1854, to Rachel Macomb, daughter of Dr. William Wetherill, of Philadelphia, and grand- daughter of Major Macomb, U.S.A. He was in- jured by being thrown from his gig in May, 1868, and never fully recovered his health. He edited Aural Surgery, by Sir William Wilde (1853), and Mackenzie's Diseases of the Eye (1855), and wrote The Use of Earth in Surgery (1887), besides many valuable contributions to medical journals. He died in Philadelpliia, Pa., Sept. 11, 1889.

HEWSON, Addinell, surgeon, was born in Philadelphia. Pa.. Sept. 2, 1855: son of Dr. Addinell and Racliel Macomb (Wetherill) Hew- son. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. A.B.. 1876; A.M., 1879. and from Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, in 1879. He was dispensary surgeon at St. Maiy's hospi- tal, Philadelphia, 1879-88 ; clinical assistant in fhe surgical department of the Jefferson Medical

College hospital, 1879-82; assistant in the oph- thalmic clinic of the same institution, 1882-84, and chief clinical assistant of the surgical de- partment there, 1890-94. He was an assistant demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson Medical college, 1879-86 ; prosecutor of anatomy, 1886-89 ; demonstrator of anatomy there from 1889, and professor of anatomy at the Philadelphia Poly- clinic College for Graduates in Medicine from 1897. He was made physician to the Philadel- phia Oriihan society in 1886, dispensary surgeon to the Episcopal hospital, Philadelphia, in 1887, and surgeon to St. Timothy's hospital, Roxbor- ough. Pa., in 1894. He was elected a member of the Philadelphia County Medical society, Patho- logical Society of Philadelphia, Obstetrical So- ciety of Philadelphia ; fellow of the College of Physicians, 1891 ; member of the Academy of Surgery and of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution. He was married Sept. 4, 1883. to Lucy, daughter of George Washington Clabaugh, of Cumberland, Md. He edited the American edition of Hoklen's Dissector, and is the author of numerous jiapers in medical journals.

HEWSON, Thomas Tickell, physician, was born in London, England. April 9, 1773 ; the second son of William (F.R.S ) and Mary (Ste- venson) Hewson and grandson of Addinell and Margaret (Rooks) Stevenson. His father, the celebrated anatomist and physiologist of the Windmill school, London, died in 1774, and he was taken by his mother to the United States in 1786. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1789, studied medicine with Dr. John Foulke, 1789-94 ; was house surgeon in St. Bartholomew's hospital, London, England, 1794- 95 ; continued his medical studies at the Univer- sity of Edinburgh, 1795-96 ; was again in London, 1796-1800, and in July, 1800, he returned to Phil- adelphia, where he engaged in the practice of medicine. He was physician to the Walnut Street prison, 1806-18 ; to the Philadelphia hos- pital, 1811 ; to the Philadelphia Orphan society, 1817-37, and to the Pennsylvania hospital, 1818- 35. He was censor and secretary of the College of Physicians, 1802-35 ; president of that institu- tion, 1835-48, and held the chair of comparative anatomy in the department of natural science of the University of Pennsylvania, December, 1816. He founded in 1822 a private medical school in Library street, in which he was teacher of anat- omy and practice. He was elected a member of the Edinburgh Medical society in 1796 ; of the American Philosophical society in 1801, and was one of its cui'ators and its secretary ; a fellow of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, 1801. and was its president. 1835-48 ; a member of the Phil- adelphia Medical society, 1803, and a member of