hall proceed to give some account of the manner
in which the plan of obtaining the best instrument the Old World could
furnish to the New was formed, matured, and carried into successful
execution.

It is mainly to the persistent labors of a single individual that our
community is indebted for the privilege it now enjoys in possessing an
instrument of the supreme order, such as make cities illustrious by
their presence. That which is on the lips of all it can wrong no
personal susceptibilities to tell in print; and when we say that Boston
owes the Great Organ chiefly to the personal efforts of the present
President of the Music-Hall Association, Dr. J. Baxter Upham, the
statement is only for the information of distant readers.

Dr. Upham is widely known to the medical profession in connection with
important contributions to practical science. His researches on typhus
fever, as observed by him at different periods, during and since the
years 1847 and 1848, in this country, and as seen at Dublin and in the
London Fever Hospital, were recognized as valuable contributions to the
art of medicine. More recently, as surgeon in charge of the Stanley
General Hospital, Eighteenth Army Corps, he has published an account of
the "Congestive Fever" prevailing at Newborn, North Carolina, during the
winter and spring of 1862-63. We must add to these practical labors the
record of his most ingenious and original investigations of the
circulation in the singular case of M. Groux, which had puzzled so many
European experts, and to which, with the tact of a musician, he applied
the electro-magnetic telegraphic apparatus so as to change the rapid
consecutive motions of different parts of the heart, which puzzled the
eye, into successive _sounds_ of a character which the ear could
recognize in their order. It was during these experiments, many of which
we had the pleasure of witnessing, that the "side-show" was exhibited of
counting the patient's pulse, through the wires, at the Observatory in
Cambridge, while it was beating in Dr. Upham's parlor in Boston. Nor
should we forget that other ingenious contrivance of his, the system of
_sound-signals_, devised during his recent term of service as surgeon,
and applied with the most promising results, as a means of
intercommunication between different portions of the same armament.

In the summer of 1853, less than a year after the Music Hall was opened
to the public, Dr. Upham, who had been for