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Normal school, Athens, Ga. She was instructor in the summer Normals of Virginia, 1885-89; in the Virginia Summer School of Methods, 1889- 1901; and in the Summer School of the South, June-July, 1902. She organized the Virginia branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, the first branch organized in the Southern states, and was its president, 1899-1902, and was made one of the vice-presidents of the General Association of Collegiate Alumnae in October 1901. She published two original investigations in psychol- ogy in the Ainerican Journal of Psychology, and contributed to educational periodicals.

PARRISH, Edward, educator, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 31, 1822; son of Dr. Joseph Parrish (1779-1840), an eminent physician of Philadelphia, and Susanna (Cox) Parrish. He attended a Friends school and entered the drug stoi'e of liis brother Dillwyn. He was graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1842, conducted a drug store adjoining the University of Pennsylyania, 1843-50, and in 1849 established a school of practical pharmacy. He took a course of instruction in analytical chem- istry under Professor Booth and a course in materia medica at the University of Pennsylva- nia. He was professor of materia medica at the College of Pharmacy, 1864-67, and professor of practical pliarmacy, 1867-73. He was one of the founders of Swai'thmore col- lege, its secretary, 1864-68, and president, 1868-72. He was a member of the American Pharmaceutical society, 1852- 72, and its president, 1868-72; a member of the Great Britain and Berlin societies, and was a delegate to the International pharmaceutical congress which met in London in 1858. In 1872 he was sent by the U.S. government as one of the peace commissioners to settle the Indian difficul- ties in the west, where he was stricken with malarial fever from which he died. He is the author of: An Introduction to Practical Pharvia- macy (1856); The Phantom Bouquet, a Popular Treatise on the Art of Skeletonizing Leaves and Seed Vessels, and Adapting them to Embellish the Home of Taste(18Q3), and An Essay on Education (1866), besides many contributions to the Journal of Pharmacy. He died at Fort Sill, Indian Ter- ritory, Sept. 9, 1872.

PARRISH, Joseph, physician, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 2, 1779; son of Isaac and Sarah (Mitchell) Parrish; grandson of John and Elizabeth (Roberts) Parrish, and of Abraham and Sarah (Robins) Mitchell, and fifth in descent from Capt. Edward Parrish (1600-1679) of Yorkshire, England, who immigrated to Maryland about 1640, and was surveyor-general of the province VIII. — 14

under Lord Baltimore, whose colonists he is said to have brought to Maryland in the sliip he com- manded. He was converted to the Quaker faith by George Fox in 1672. Joseph Parrish received a classical education; began the study of medicine with Dr. Caspar Wistar in 1800, and was gradu- ated from the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., in 1805. He was prominently connected with the principal hospitals and dispensaries in Philadel- phia as physician, surgeon or manager throughout his active life. During the winter of 1807-08 he delivered a course of popular lectures on chemis- try, which were subsequently twice repeated. In 1808 he was married to Susanna, daughter of John and Ann (Dillwyn) Cox. During the epi- demic of typhus fever of 1812-13 he rejected the practice of his predecessors and totally abandoned bleeding in his treatment. He was president of the board of managers of the Wills hospital for the relief of the indigent blind and lame, 1832-40; a member of the Medical society and College of Physicians of Philadelphia; long a member and ultimately president of the Pennsylvania Abolition society, and a prominent member of the Society of Friends. He is the author of many serial books and pamphlets on medical subjects and of contributions to the North American Medical and Surgical Journal. He died in Pliiladelphia, Pa., March 18, 1840.

PARRISH, Joseph, phj'sician, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 11, 1818: son of Dr. Joseph (q.v.) and Susanna (Cox) Parrish. He attended a Friends school, and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1844. He practised in Burlington, N.J.; founded the New Jersey Medical Reporter, which he removed to Philadelphia, Pa.; was physician to Burling- ton college and St. Mary's hall, and professor of obstetrics in the Philadelphia Medical college, 1856-67. Failing health caused his resignation in 1857, and he traveled in England, France, Ger- many, Switzerland and Italy. While at Rome his attention was called to the mismanagement of the insane hospital, and by intercession with the pope he caused the abuses to be abated. He was superintendent of the state training school for idiots and feeble-minded children at Media, Pa., 1857-63. He entered the service of the U.S. Sanitary commission in 1863, and visited the camps and army hospitals with orders for hospital sup- plies. He established the Pennsylvania Inebriate asylum in 1865, and conducted the institution, 1865-72. In 1866 he started a reform movement which resulted in the establishment of the Ameri- can Association for the Study and Cure of In- ebriety, of which he was chosen president in 1872. In the same year, in company with Dr. Dodge of New York, he was summoned by a commission appointed by the British Parliament for the study