subject with a memory so comprehensive, a
knowledge so complete, and an appreciation so judicial, that nothing
more remained to be said. His books and monographs for the time and
era of their publication were standard, and will always remain
exceptionally valuable. Only the lapse of many years may antiquate but
never stale his elegant work on 'Ovarian Tumors,' of which one of his
most famous compeers has said that he would 'rather have written it
than any other medical work of any time or in any language.'

"In his personal relations to the members of the profession, Dr.
Peaslee was genial, charitable, and just. His patients looked to him
in perfect confidence and respect, personally as well as
professionally. He was as remarkable for the diligent care as for the
thorough study of his cases; and at every visit he dispensed with
gentle humor the best medicines, faith and hope.

"From youth through middle life he passed in the light of growing
knowledge; in the serenity of accomplished duty; in the prestige of
gathering fame and fortune; and he died before age or decay had
limited his scope of life."

Prof. Peaslee married Martha Thankful, daughter of Hon. Stephen
Kendrick, of Lebanon, N. H. He died in New York City, January 21,
1878.

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Reliable sources furnish some facts regarding another gentleman long
and honorably connected with this Department.

Prof. Albert Smith, M.D., LL. D., was born in Peterborough, N. H. He
graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1825, and took his medical degree
there, in 1833. He was early successful as a practitioner, and before
middle age acquired a high reputation as a medical scholar and
thinker.

In 1849, he was appointed professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics
in the Dartmouth Medical College, where he continued to lecture till
his resignation, in 1870, from which time until his death he was
professor Emeritus. In 1857, he delivered his course of lectures at
the Vermont Medical College, and also the course at the Bowdoin
Medical School, in 1859.

The honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Dartmouth
College, in 1870, and also an honorary degree of M.D. by the Rush
Medical College, Chicago, in 1875. He was also an honorary member of
the New York Medical Society. As a medical instructor he was included
in the first rank of New England professors. His writings also gained
him a wide and enviable reputation. Among his publication