1) The certificate of his naturalization reads:

"Maryland ss.

"These are to certify all persons whom it may concern: That George
Keifer of Frederick County, within the Province aforesaid, born
out of the Allegiance of his most Sacred Majesty King George the
Third, etc., did, on the 3d day of September Anno Domini 1765,
Personally appear before the Justices of his Lordship's Provincial
Court, and then and there, in Term Time, between the hours of nine
and twelve in the forenoon of the same day, produced and delivered
a certificate in writing of his having received the Sacrament of
the Lord's Supper in a Protestant or Reformed Congregation in the
said Province of Maryland, within three months next before the
exhibiting of such certificate, signed by the person administering
such Sacrament, and attested by two credible witnesses, in pursuance
of an Act of Parliament made in the thirteenth year of the reign
of his late Majesty King George the Second, entitled, An Act for
naturalizing such foreign _Protestants_, and others therein mentioned,
as are settled or shall settle in any of his Majesty's Colonies in
America; and then and there made appear, that he had been an
inhabitant in some of his Majesty's Plantations seven years, and
had not been absent out of some of the said Colonies for a longer
space than two months at any one time during the said seven years;
and also then and there took the oaths of Allegiance, Abhorrency,
and Abjuration, repeated the Test, and subscribed the same, and
oath of Abjuration. In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my
hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, this 3d day of
September in the year of our Lord God, one thousand seven hundred
and Sixty-five.

"Test. Reverdy Ghiselm, Clk."

( 2) Dr. Jenner's primary investigation of the principles of
vaccination began in 1775, but was not satisfactorily completed in
England until five years later. Lady Montagu had, however, introduced
from Turkey into England, as early as 1717, inoculation for smallpox,
but from the beginning it met the fiercest opposition of physicians,
the clergy, and the superstitious public, which was never entirely
overcome in England or America.

( 3) John Uri Lloyd, Ph.M., Ph.D. (Cin.), the distinguished author
and scientist and collector of medical, etc., books, in an article
printed in the _Am. Jour. of Pharmacy_, January, 1898, on "Dr.
Peter Smith and His Dispensatory," says his book was the "first