REPORT ON AMERICAN MEDICAL NECROLOGY. IN presenting the report on the necrology of the members of the American Medical Association to this meeting, it is but simple justice that I acknowledge the valuable assistance I have received from associates on the Committee, residents in the several States. While the Society has reason to be grateful for the fidelity with which some of the members have discharged the duties assigned them, there are a few who have totally neglected the obligation they owe to this body, and by such a course defraud the dead of that respectful notice which this Society has in its wisdom deemed proper and made provision to give to every member who has preserved an interest in it to the end of his life. Notice in the necrological report of the American Medical Association in point of honor may be considered a sort of Westminster Abbey interment or monumental record amongst the highest medical worthies in the United States, and is a cherished privilege that is acquired under the rules by every member of the Association. This right to a notice in the report can only be lost by some unworthy act of the member himself. We should be just to the dead, and every member should feel a personal interest in the matter and see that a proper memorial record is neither neglected too long nor entirely omitted. With the revised list of all members who at any time attend a meeting of the Association, with the years of his attendance, given in the volume for 1850, and an alphabetical list which accompanies this report of the names of all the deceased physicians who have had notice taken of their death by this body, from its organization, the task of performing duty on the Committee of Necrology in the future will be an easy one. One error I find to be prevalent in the minds of my associates, which is that members consider it their duty only to prepare notices of those who may die within the year for which they are serving on the Committee, while the fact is, that all members who have died in good standing, whether in actual affilia tion with this body at the time of their demise or not, are equally, under the rules, entitled to notice, no matter how many years have elapsed since their death. I trust the index accompanying this report of deceased physicians, who have received notices and whose names are scattered throughout its many volumes of Transactions, will prove to be of convenience and value in making whatever has been published by us on this subject available. If I may be indulged in the remark, it is my belief that a subject index to all the articles contained in the complete series of our Transactions would render them much more valuable to the student and the public than they are at present. J. M. T. ALDEN, EBENEZER, M.D., was born in Randolph, Mass., March 17, 1788, and died in the same town, January 26, 1881. His name and profession were the same as those of his father, who was a distinguished physician of the last century. He graduated at Harvard College in 1808; received the degree of M.B. from Dartmouth Medical College in 1811, and the degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1812. He settled as physician in his native town, where he resided during his entire life. He had a large practice in his profession, both as physiciau and surgeon. He was a member of the Medical Society of the County, and of the State, and of the American Medical Association since 1849, attending in 1853, 1858, and 1865. He was also connected with the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester, and the American Statistical Association. The following are some of his published writings: "Address before the Dartmouth Medical Society;" "The Medical Uses of Alcohol;""Early History of the Medical Profession in the County of Norfolk;" "Address before the Norfolk District Medical Society," etc. etc. Dr. Alden married, September 14, 1818, a daughter of Capt. Edmund Kimball, of Newburyport, by whom he had six children, three of whom survive him, two sons and a daughter. The sons are Rev. Ebenezer Alden, of Marshfield, and Rev. E. K. Alden, D.D., of Boston, the Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions. He was a thoroughly religious man, always a stout and earnest representative of Pilgrim ideas and principles. He was descended, through both father and mother, directly from John Alden of the "Mayflower." He was superintendent of the Sabbath School of Randolph for almost forty years. From 1827 to 1869 he was one of the trustees of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society. From 1837 till his death he was trustee of Phillips Academy, and of Andover Theological Seminary. From 1840 to his death he was one of the corporate members of the American Board of Foreign Missions. From 1841 to 1874 he was one of the trustees of Amherst College. From 1842 to 1867 he was a director of the American Education Society. One would probably search in vain to find another instance of such long public gratuitous services in so many different connections. At the time of his death he was the oldest graduate of medicine in the State. L. F. WARNER, M.D. ALEXANDER, ASHTON, M.D., was born about the year 1772, near Arlington, Alexandria County, Virginia; died of pneumonia at his residence in Baltimore, February, 1855. The town of Alexandria was named after his ancestors, who owned large tracts of land in the neighborhood. His youth was spent in Jefferson County, where he was educated at a private institution. He commenced his medical studies under Dr. Philip Thomas, a very prominent physician of Fredericktown, Md. He finished his medical education in the office of Dr. Benjamin Rush, of Philadelphia. He received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania on the 22d day of May, 1795. His thesis was on the Influence of one disease in the cure of another." 66 Whilst living in Philadelphia he resided in the family of Dr. Rush, who took a very lively interest in him. Dr. Alexander first commenced practice in North Carolina, but was compelled to relinquish it on account of a severe attack of malarial fever. He removed to Baltimore in 1796, where he practised for more than forty years with great assiduity and success. Dr. Alexander was one of the founders of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, his name appearing in association with Drs. George Buchanan, Leyde Goodwin, Arthur Pugh, Henry Stevenson, and others, among the first incorporators. He was the first Secretary of the Faculty, and, afterwards, for a length of time, its President. He married in 1799 Miss Thomas, a daughter of his |