sby was
not what may be called a _rapid_ operator. 'An operation, gentlemen,'
he often said to his clinical students, 'is soon enough done when it
is _well_ enough done.' And, with him, it was never done otherwise
than _well_.

"At the outbreak of the rebellion, Dr. Crosby served in the
provost-marshal's office at a great sacrifice for many months,
attending to his practice chiefly at night. As years and honors
accumulated, Dr. Crosby still continued his work, though his
constitutional vigor was impaired by the severity of the New Hampshire
winters, and by his unremitting labor. At length, having reached man's
limit of three-score years and ten, he withdrew from active practice,
and in 1870 resigned his chair in the college, to which his son
succeeded. From that time it was plain that Dr. Crosby's life-work was
nearly done. In his well-ordered and delightful home he found that
rest to which his long service in behalf of humanity entitled him. His
end was perfect dignity and perfect peace.

"To those of us who had been most intimately associated with our
departed friend, who had enjoyed his teachings, his counsels, and his
generous kindness, the news of his death came as a heavy shock. But he
still lives in the remembrance of his distinguished services, in the
unfading affection and gratitude of his pupils, and in the many hearts
whose burdens he has lifted. Verily, '_Extinctus amabitur idem!_'"

Professor Crosby married Mary Jane, daughter of Stephen Moody, of
Gilmanton, N. H.

The following paragraphs relating to one of Dartmouth's most eminent
professors, the esteemed classmate of President Bartlett, who says:
"Outside of my own family circle, I had no better friend," are from
the pen of Dr. T. A. Emmet, of New York.

"Edmund Randolph Peaslee was born at Newton, New Hampshire, January
22, 1814. We have no record of his boyhood, or of his life previous to
graduating from Dartmouth College, with the class of 1836. In this
institution he occupied the position of tutor from 1837 to 1839, when
he entered the Medical Department of Yale College and took his degree
in 1840.

"The following year he settled in Hanover, N. H., and commenced the
practice of his profession. Without waiting in expectation, he began
his busy life by delivering a popular course of lectures on Anatomy
and Physiology.

"These lectures indicated so clearly his talents that, in 1842, but
two years after entering the profession, he was appointed