third, and Dr. Usher Parsons to the fourth. Dr. Parsons remained
but two years, when Dr. Mussey was appointed professor of Anatomy, in
addition to his other branches. No further change occurred until 1826,
when Dr. Dana resigned the chair of Chemistry, which was filled by the
election of Professor Hale, who continued to lecture until 1835, when
his connection with the college ceased. The following year Dr. John
Delamater was chosen professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic,
and the present incumbent, Dr. O. P. Hubbard, professor of Chemistry,
while in 1838 a great change was made in the Medical Faculty by the
resignation of all the lecturers except Professor Hubbard. By the
election of the Trustees, the Faculty now consisted of Elisha
Bartlett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Delamater, Oliver Payson
Hubbard, Dixi Crosby, and Stephen W. Williams. Dr. Bartlett resigned
in 1840, and was succeeded by Dr. Joseph Roby. Dr. Delamater also
left, and Dr. Holmes tendered his resignation. The next year, 1841,
Dr. Phelps and Dr. Peaslee commenced their long and useful connection
with the school. No farther change was made until 1849, when Dr. Roby
resigned and Dr. Albert Smith was elected. In 1867 Dixi Crosby
resigned the chair of Surgery, and A. B. Crosby, who had served as
adjunct professor of Surgery since 1862, was elected to fill the
vacancy. In 1869, Dr. Peaslee, having resigned the chair of Anatomy
and Physiology, was transferred to a new chair of the Diseases of
Women, while Lyman Bartlett How, M.D., was elected to fill the
vacancy. And finally Dr. Dixi Crosby has sent in his resignation of
the chair of Obstetrics, to take effect at the ensuing commencement
(1870), thus terminating an active connection of thirty-two years with
the school.

"Nathan Smith, the founder of the school, was without dispute a great
man. He was born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, September 30, 1762.
Incited to enter the profession by witnessing an amputation in
Vermont, he devoted himself to acquiring the best preliminary
education his means afforded, and eventually entered his profession
full of zeal and ambition, resolved to act no secondary part in his
chosen vocation. To found a medical college at Dartmouth was the chief
desire of his early manhood. Regardless of his own pecuniary
interests, he borrowed money to buy the necessary apparatus and
appliances with which to commence his course of instruction. When the
increasing demands of the insti