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grantlson of Tliomas Matthias and Theresa (Low) Paltsits, ami of Joliii Samuel and Adeline Rosa- munde (Schultze) Loose. He attended the com- mon schools of New York, 187'2-81; took a scientific course at the Cooper Institute, N.Y., 1883-86, and studied Latin, German, Greek, Spanish and French in high schools and under private tuition. He became connected with the Lenox library, Jan. 1, 1888; was made assistant in the reading room in March, 1890. and sub or assistant librarian in the spring of 1893, He eilited: The Journal of Capt. William Pote, Jr., 1740-47 (1896); Papers relating to the Siege of Charleston, S. C, in 17S0 (1898); Captivity of Capt. John Gyles, 16S9-97 (1902). Ho was biblio- graphical adviser on the editorial staff of Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (73 vols); com- piled a bibliograpliy of the Lettres Edifiantes, Cleveland, Ohio (1900) and contributed to cyclo- pi\;dia^, magazines and reviews. He delivered the historical address on Capt. Nathan Hale at East Haddam. Conn., June 6, 1900.

PANCOAST, Henry Spackman, author and teacher, was born in Germantown, Pa., Aug. 24, 1858; son of Charles Stacy and Mary Anne (Slielmerdine) Pancoast, and grandson of Stacy and Eliza (Hatton) Pancoast and of Edward and Martlia Mitchell (Roberts) Shelmerdine. He attended Germantown academy and studied under a private tutor, and was admitted to the bar in 1882. He was married, June 2, 1897, to Dorothea Napier, daughter of Herman Marcus of New York. He was a founder of the Indian Rights association, and is the author of: Imj^res- sions of the Sioux Tribes in ISS.?, icith some first 2yrinciples in the Indian Question (1882); The In- dian before the Laio (ISSi); Representative Eng- lish Literature (1892); Introduction to English Literature ( 1895); Introduction to American Lit- erature (1898); and edited a volume of Standard English Poems (1900).

PANCOAST, Joseph, surgeon, was born in Burlington, N.J., Nov. 23, 1805; son of John and Anne (Abbott) Pancoast. His first maternal an- cestor in America emigrateil from England to Pennsylvania with William Penn. He was grad- uated at the medical department of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1828, and settled in prac- tice in Philadelphia, Pa., where he married, in 1829, Rebecca, daugliter of Timotliy Abbott of that city. He taught clai>ses in practical anatomy and surgery, was one of the physicians to the Blockley hospital in 1834, head pliysician of the Children's hospital for several 3-ears. and one of its visiting surgeons, 1838-45. He was professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical college, 1838-47, .succeeding Dr. George McClellan. and was transferred to the chair of anatomy, serving 1847-74, when he resigned and was succeeded by his son, Dr. Wil-

liam H. Pancoast. He was surgeon to the Penn- sylvania hospital, 1854-64. He performed many novel and skilful operations which are recorded in medical works. He was a member of the Amer- ican Philosophical society; the College of Phar- macy; The Philadelphia County Medical society; the Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and other scientific institutions. He contributed to the American Journal of the Medical Science, The American Medical Intelligencer and the Medical Examiner; translated J. Frederick Lobstein's Treatise on the Structure, Functions, and Dis- eases of the Human Sympathetic Nerve from the Latin (1831); edited ilTciHec on the Great Sympa- thetic Nerve (18il ); Manec on the Cerebro-Spinal Axis of Man (1841); and Quain's Anatomical Plates (1852); and is the author of: Treatise on Operative Surgery ,ioith Descriptions of all the New Operations (1844, revised edition, 1852); A System of Anatomy for the Use of Students, based on the work of Casper Wistar (1844), and several essays. He died in Pliiladelphia, Pa., March 7, 1882.

PANCOAST, William Henry, surgeon, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 16, 1835; eon of Dr. Joseph and Rebecca (Abbott) Pancoast. He was graduated at Haverford college, A.B., 18.53; at Jefferson Medical college, M.D., 1856; studied in the hospitals of London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, 1856-59, and while in Paris was a pupil and assistant of the discoverer of the opera- tion of lithotrity. He began practice in Phila- delphia in 1859 and soon became prominent as a hospital and private surgeon. In 1861 he entered the army as surgeon-in-chief and second officer in charge of the military hospital in Philadelphia. He was demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson Medical college, 1862-74; adjunct professor of ana- tomy during his father's absence in Europe, 1867- 68, and 1873-74, and professor of anatomy, 1874- 97. He was also first president of and professor in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, 1886-96. He was married first, Nov. 13, 1873, to Mary Anna Gertrude Lewis; and secondl}-, to Matilda Robb. He secured the bodies of the Sia- mese twins in 1874, and conducted the autopsy under the auspices of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Philadelphia, proving that the band could not have been safely cut except in childhood. He was a member of the American Philosophical society; the Academy of Natural Sciences; fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Philadelphia; president of the Phila- delphia County Medical societj'; vice-president of the Pennsylvania State Medical societj'; a member of the American Medical association, of the In- ternational Medical congress, 1876; corresponding member of the Societe Clinique de Paris; first president of the Red Cross Society in Pennsyl- vania, and of a section of the Pan-American