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geon at Fort Walla Walla, W. T., until 1879, when he was appointed member and secretary of the Havana yellow fever commission of the national board of health. He was a delegate to the inter- national sanitary conference at Rome, Italy, in 1885 ; was appointed by President Cleveland to make investigations in Brazil, Mexico and Cuba, relating to the aetiology and prevention of yel- low fever by inoculation, 1887-89 ; was commis- sioned deputy surgeon-general, Jan. 12, 1891 ; brigadier-general and surgeon-general. May 30, 1893 ; was in command of the medical depart- ment, U.S. army, in the war with Spain in 1898, and was retired, June 8, 1903. General Sternberg acquired wide reputation as a bacteriologist. He made the discovery of the action of the white blood corpuscles on disease germs, afterward made famous by Metchnikoff in Europe ; was a delegate to the international medical congress at Moscow, Russia, Aug. 19-26, 1897, and addressed the American Medical association on "Sanitary Lessons of the War", June 8, 1899. He was elected a member of the American Public Health association in 1879, serving as its president in 1887 ; president of the American Medical associa- tion in 1898. and a member of various other med- ical organizations. He is the author of : Photo 2Iicrograplis and How to Make Tliem (1883) ; Bacteria, Malarial Diseases (1884) ; Manual of Bacteriology (1893) ; Text Book of Bacteriology (1895) ; Immunity, Protective Inoculations, and Serum-Tlierajyy {1891), and of nvimerous scien- tific articles and government reports.

STERNER, Albert Edward, artist, was born in London, England, March 8, 1863. He was educated in Julien's academy, Birmingham, England, and studied art in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. France. He came to the United States in 1881 ; engaged as an artist, scene painter and lithographer in Chicago, 111., 1881- 85, and in the latter year opened a studio in New York city, becoming an illustrator for Harper's, Century and Scrihners magazines. His canvas, TJie Bachelor, received honorable mention at the Paris Salon, and he was also awarded a bronze medal at the Paris exposition of 1900. He was a member of the American Water Color society. He illustrated : George AV. Curtis's " Prueand I " ; " Coppee's Tales " (1891) : '• Poe's Works '" (1894), and " Eleanor '' by Mrs. Humphrey Ward (1900), and many stories and articles in the leading maga- zines. He was residing in Nutley, N.J., in 1903.

STERRETT, John Robert Sitlington, educa- tor and archpeologist, was born at Rockbridge Baths, Va., March 4, 1851 ; son of Robert Dunlap (1827-1852) and Nancy Snyder (Sitlington) (1833- 1878) Sterrett, natives of Virginia ; grandson of Robert (1789-1862), a native of Ireland, and Isabella (Dunlap) (1794-1865), a native of Virginia,

Sterrett, and of Robert (1808-1890) and Nancy (Snyder) (1811-1833) Sitlington. The Sterretts were Scotch, who settled in Londonderry, Ire- land ; the Sitlingtons emigrated from Scotland to Ireland and from Larne, Ireland, to Virginia in 1760-74. He attended the University of Virginia in 1868-72, and was graduated from the Univer- sity of Munich, Ph.D., 1880. He was married, March 1, 1891, to Josephine Moseley daughter of Joel Shrewsbury and Frances Cable (Friend) Quarrier of Charleston, W. Va. He was a student at the universities at Leipzig and Berlin and at the Polytechnicum of Aachen, 1872-75 ; at the University of Athens, Greece, 1875-77 ; in Rome and Italy, 1877-78 ; in Munich, 1878-80 ; at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, 1883-88 ; assisted the director of the same, 1883- 84 ; was a member of the Assos expedition, 1883 ; of the British Exploration Fund, 1883 ; leader of the expedition to Asia Minor in 1884 ; a member of the Wolfe expedition to Assyria and Baby- lonia, 1884-85 ; leader of the Wolfe expedition to Asia Minor, 1885 ; professor of Greek language and literature at Miami university, Oxford, Ohio, 1886-88 ; professor of Greek at the Univer- sity of Texas, 1888-92 ; visiting lecturer at Cor- nell university in 1890, and professor of Greek at Amherst college, Mass., 1892-1901, in the mean- time serving as professor of Greek at the Ameri- can School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1896-97. In 1901 he became professor of Greek at Cornell universit}'. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1903. He was a corresponding member of the Imperial German Archaeological institute ; mem- ber of the British Society for the Promotion of Hel- lenic Studies ; of the American Philological associ- ation ; of the American Archa?ological Institute ; of the National Geographic society, and a member of the board of managers of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece. He was joint editor of the American Journal of Archceol- ogy ; co-editor of Cornell Classical Studies ; and author of : Qua in re Hymni Homerici quinque majores inter se differant (1881); Inscriptions of Sebaste (1883); Inscriptions of Assos (1885); Li- scriptions of Tralles (1885); Preliminary Report of Journey in Asia Minor (1885); Epigraphical Journey in Asia Minor (1888); Wolfe Expedition in Asia Minor (1888); Leaflets from the Note- book of a Traveling Archceologist (1889); the magazine articles: Troglodytes of Cappadocia (1900); Glimpses of Asia Minor (1901) ; Tlie Torch-Pace (1902).

STETSON, Charlotte Perkins, author, was born in Hartford, Conn., July 3, 1S60 ; daughter of Frederic Beecher and Mary Ann Fitch (AVest- cott) Perkins ; granddaughter of Thomas C. and Mary (Beecher) Perkins, and of Henry and Cla-