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PRINTED FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. BOSTON: PRINTED BY GEO. L. KEYES, 166 CONGRESS STREET. The following pages record brief memorials of one who was the focal object of affection in the domestic circle and among those with whom he came in intimate contact. Large hopes for his future were cherished. But though he was cut off before he had reached life's meridian, he achieved for himself and his profession a degree of useful- ness and honor which has been recognized on both conti- nents. A. w. 3Sn QJZTtemoriam* HKhomas Barnes Hitchcock, eldest son of David K. and Abby H. Hitchcock, was born in Boston on the 22d of June, 1839. As a boy he was active and daring, fond of fun and adventure, and foremost in athletic sports. The public schools of Newton gave him his early training, and at eighteen he entered as a pupil the office of his father, who was a practising dentist. He early exhibited mechanical and inventive skill; but his tastes were broad and liberal, and both he and his parents desired that he should have a thorough education before entering on the pro- fession to which natural capacity and inclination, as well as inherited advantages, seemed to lead him. He therefore entered the Medical School 6 IN MEMORIAM. of Harvard University, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1860, at the age of twenty-one. Having chosen dentistry as his profession, he at once devoted himself with all the natural force and impetuosity of his character to mastering the details of that calling; but while thus engaged, with excellent professional prospects and sur- rounded with domestic comforts, he heard the repeated calls of his country for volunteers for the war. The question of entering the military service was with him entirely a question of con- science. He decided that it was his duty to give his services to his country, and immediately re- signed the delights of home and the sure pros- pect of professional rewards. He was commis- sioned assistant surgeon and assigned to the 42d Regiment of Mass. Volunteers, Col. I. S. Burrell commanding. Three companies of this regiment with most of the field officers, including Dr. Cummings the surgeon, were taken prisoners at Galveston. Dr. Hitchcock was left with the rest IN MEMORIAM. 7 of the regiment in and about New Orleans to discharge the arduous duties of surgeon in field and hospital. His labors were so unremitting and exhausting that he was finally prostrated by a severe attack of fever. He afterwards received an appointment to the staff of General Banks; but at the expiration of his term of service he returned home, bearing in his enfeebled body the seeds of subsequent ill health. Resuming the work of his profession, he had acquired a remunerative practise when, in 1868, he was chosen Professor of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics in the newly established Dental School of Harvard University. Already burdened by the constant labors of his increasing practise, he yet eagerly assumed the additional duties of this professorship, which were by no means light; for the instruction to be given was of a novel sort; good precedents were lacking, text-books were yet to be prepared, collections for illustra- tion were to be brought together, and the school itself, a new experiment for the University, was 8 IN MEMORIAM. to be built up by the combined efforts of its few professors. Dr. Hitchcock gathered material for his lectures from widely scattered sources, pre- pared many microscopic objects with his own hands to illustrate his lectures, obtained others by correspondence with European microscopists, and taught with inspiring enthusiasm. He edited and annotated "Wedl's Dental Pathology, and published a large number of useful papers on subjects of professional interest. These papers are mostly embraced in his Reports on Dental Histology. In 1871 Dr. N. C. Keep, who had been Dean of the Dental School from the outset, was forced by failing health to resign his charge, and on January 12, 1872, Dr. Hitchcock was chosen Dean in his stead. This appointment added to the labors of his professorship the general administration of the school. He was an energetic, punctual and zealous administrator, intensely interested in the school, eager to improve it, and to raise the standard of dental education, just and sympathetic in his inter- course with the students, and faithful to his duty in IN MEMORIAM. 9 the least things as well as in the greatest. In the meantime his increasing practise made ever larger drafts upon his strength, while he pursued with ardor the study of pathology and therapeutics, and was always making new acquisitions with which to enrich his teachings. With all this work upon his hands, he yet found opportunity to write several articles upon dental education, and at the time of his death he had nearly com- pleted a laborious investigation of the qualities of the various amalgams which are in common use for filling teeth. The results of this investigation are embodied in a valuable paper printed in the Transactions of the New York Odontological Society for 1874. It was his intense application to this voluntary task which brought upon his overworked body the fatal disease to which he fell a victim on the 24th of June, 1874.* * The funeral services were held in the house of his father, the Hon. David K. Hitchcock, of Newton, and were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Webb of Boston, who was the pastor of the deceased. The large num- ber that gathered into the darkened residence to witness the sol- 2 10 IN MEMORIAM. In 1863 Dr. Hitchcock married Miss Hills, of Newton, who with two children, Frederick Hills and Thomas Barnes, still survive him. Dr. Hitchcock's character developed with his work. Ambitious to excel in all he undertook, he yet never deviated from the strictest integrity. His army experience did not tarnish the purity of his life and speech. A sincere and faithful friend, an ardent but honorable opponent, upright, loving thoroughness, and conscientious in all things, looking upwards, hopeful and industrious, despising indirectness and craft, his life was fruitful and enmities and mingle their sympathies and tears with those of the strick- en families showed how widely the deceased was appreciated, and how warmly he was loved. There was a fulfllment of the Scripture, "All ye that gather about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, how is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod." In conduct- ing the services Dr. Webb was really a minister of consolation. His every word seemed specially appropriate, and he remarked that he had never before conducted a funeral where there were so many sincere mourners. Every one seemed to be in mourning. And yet said he shining through all these clouds a light is seen, and in the midst of all this mournful silence a voice is heard,—" I am the resurrection and the life," " He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." IN MEMORIAM. 11 happy, and his death was a grievous loss to the profession which he adorned, and to the University which he devotedly served. In this brief tribute to departed worth, it is fit- ting to incorporate some of the official and pro- fessional references to Professor Hitchcock by those who enjoyed the best opportunities for know- ing him, and how full of promise his brief profes- sional life was. At a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, in Boston, June 29th, 1874, the President announced to the Board the death of Dr. Thomas Barnes Hitchcock, Professor of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics since 1868, and Dean of the Dental Faculty since 1872, whereupon it was Resolved, That the President be requested to express to Dr. Hitchcock's family the profound sympathy of this Board in their bereavement, the 12 IN MEMORIAM. high appreciation in which the Board held Dr. Hitchcock's professional attainments, skill as a teacher, and zealous activity as an administrative officer, and the respect which they entertain for his character. Nathaniel Silsbee, Secretary pro tern. The following extract is from President Eliot's speech at the Commencement dinner, June 30, 1875: The organization is so large and vigorous that losses are quickly repaired, and the good work, the continuation of which the workers had chiefly at heart, goes steadily on. A very strong illustra- tion of this general fact is to be found in the effects of the heavy losses which the University has sustained, by death, among its teachers of science during the last two years. Last year died Agassiz, Hitchcock and Derby; this year, Jeffries Wyman and Joseph Winlock, two of the noblest men of science whom the country has produced. IN MEMORIAM. 13 Never before did so heavy an affliction befall the University in the short period of eighteen months. But already the work of Agassiz, Hitchcock and Derby has been taken up by loving hands and carried forward as they would have wished, and soon the same happy continuance will be secured for the life work of our friends this year gone from us. At a meeting of the Faculty of the Dental School of Harvard University, the following reso- lutions were adopted: Resolved, That the Faculty of the Dental School of Harvard University have been deeply grieved at the death of their Dean, Dr. Thomas Barnes Hitchcock, and, in recognition of his character and services, deem it their duty to place on record their regret for his loss and their sense of his merits. Resolved, That in him the Harvard Dental School has lost a valuable officer, whose unwearied 14 IN MEMORIAM. and successful discharge of the duties of his pro- fessorship, and unselfish interest in his work as Dean, entitle him to the respect and gratitude of all who are interested in the cause of dental education. Resolved, That the Dean be directed to commu- nicate a copy of these resolutions to the family of the deceased, with assurances of our sincere sym- pathy in their bereavement. Thomas H. Chandler, Dean. In his report to the Faculty of Harvard College, Dean Chandler, who succeeded Dean Hitchcock, says: The Dental Faculty have this year to deplore the loss of their energetic and indefatigable Dean, Dr. Thomas Barnes Hitchcock, a man whose whole heart was in his work, and whose work was largely the interests of the Dental School and of Dental Education. Professor at once of Pathology and Therapeutics, he had, IN MEMORIAM. 15 by strenuous and increasing labor, so made him- self master of his subjects that it was found im- possible to fill his place by appointing a single teacher. The disease which finally overcame him was meningitis — the result of overwork. He died on the 24th of June 1874, at the age of thirty-five, just in the prime of life, and at that point in his culture when he had fully prepared himself to be of great use to his generation. The work of his professorship has been divided be- tween two instructors, W. H. Rollins, D. M. D., ap- pointed Instructor in Dental Pathology, and Charles A. Brackett, D. M. D., appointed Instructor in Dental Therapeutics. Both these gentlemen are graduates of our School. The following extract is from a letter of Profes- sor Moffatt, of the Dental School of the University: Being a fellow student with T. B. Hitchcock (our late Dean), in the Harvard Medical School, graduating in the same class in 1860, and after- 16 IN MEMORIAM. wards intimately associated with him in the faculty of the Dental School, I learned to admire the in- tegrity of character and honesty of purpose that so endeared him to those who knew him best. Devoted to the profession of his choice, untiring in his labor for its advancement, unselfish in the performance of every duty, the memory of his life is one of pleasure, and his early death in the midst of his usefulness, a bereavement to family, pro- fession and friends. Words can but feebly express the sincere friendship that existed between us, and the pleasurable remembrance but ripens with the lapse of years. I feel his loss as a personal bereavement, and can only say that a noble soul has been called from our midst to the " higher life," in which he had an abiding faith. In his opening lecture on Dental Therapeutics, before the Dental School of Harvard University, Oct. 7, 1874, Instructor C. A. Brackett, D. M. D., used the following words respecting the late Dean and his loss to the profession: IN MEMORIAM. 17 " Gentlemen, — In opening this course of lec- tures it is fitting that allusion should be made to the distinguished man who was the honored professor of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics in this institution from its foundation until, the victim of overwork in its behalf, he was last Summer called hence by Death. It is not my privilege to deliver an elaborate eulogy to his ^memory; but it is right, and for our advantage, and to our credit that we gratefully consider at this time something of what we owe to his untiring labors in this department. Every class of earnest, hopeful young men that have gone out from the Harvard Dental School have enjoyed and profited by his teachings, and I see before me now several students who have with me attended his valuable lectures. " It is hardly necessary for me to call attention to the salient points in the life story of one who may be such a noble exemplar for us all. Two of these points, however, may well be emphasized. The young man who was to be Prof. Hitchcock made 3 18 IN MEMORIAM. thorough preparation for the work to which he afterwards bent his energies. Graduating from the Medical School of our University in 1860, and adopting at once the dental specialty, it is a speak- ing commentary on the scope and depth of his studies as well as the versatility and power of his genius, that he was considered worthy, on the breaking out of the war, of the appointment of As- sistant Surgeon of the Forty-second (42d) Regi- ment of Massachusetts Volunteers. Afterwards, the death of his superior officer promoted him to the surgeoncy; and these duties he continued to per- form till the end of the war. His love for dentistry was such, however, that he resumed its practise at once upon his return; and in 1868 he was called to occupy the chair of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics in this institution. About two years after, upon the resignation of Dr. Keep, he was made Dean of the Faculty; and all of his duties he performed with the most conscientious and untiring energy. Said one of his honored colleagues to me, 'At the time when the chair of IN MEMORIAM. 19 Pathology and Therapeutics was established in the school we hardly knew what would be com- prehended in its teachings; but Dr. Hitchcock developed it into one of the best and most in- structive chairs in the institution.' " The study of Pathology and Therapeutics in- deed opens an immense field for research and investigation; and the knowledge gleaned therein is of the utmost importance in the present enlight- ened practice of our specialty. Only those who have watched its progress during the last decade can appreciate the rapidity and extent of that progress; and there has been no man in this sec- tion of our country who has contributed so much to this advancement as the lamented Prof. Hitch- cock. Not only did Prof. Hitchcock strive to gather and import all that was contained in Eng- lish literature upon these subjects; but he spent much time in making available to his students, through translation and illustration, the knowledge gained by such abstruse investigations as those of Franz Boll, Leber, Rottenstein and other emi- 20 IN MEMORIAM. nent men of the continent of Europe. The In- structor in Pathology will, doubtless, bring to the attention of those of you, who are not already familiar with it the invaluable work of Dr. Carl Wedl on the Pathology of the Teeth. In the review of the translation and in the annotation of this work, as well as in introducing it as a text-book in the school, Prof. Hitchcock did a great service, not only to the students, but also to the en- tire studying and thinking part of the profession. "Prof. Hitchcock's efforts not only made him known throughout our own land, but abroad he was the friend and compeer of noble men who were laboring in the same fields of investigation. He was one of the few Americans who have been received into membership of the Odontological Society of Great Britain. If any of you were present at the last annual meeting of the Mas- sachusetts Dental Society held in the Meionaon of Tremont Temple last December, you can not fail to remember the extensive series of magnifi- cent photographs of microscopic appearances which IN MEMORIAM. 21 Prof. Hitchcock had himself prepared from his own investigations and observations in Histology. After days of toil at his chair (and one who has not been confined over an operating chair con- stantly for months can hardly realize how exhaust- ing is such labor), he made a practise of spending long evenings in writing, study, and the prepara- tion of his lectures; and sometimes the gray dawn of another day surprised his sleepless eyes ere the task which he had set for himself was accomplished. It was this severe labor that brought on the disease that so sadly ended his life while he was yet a young man. Full of high plans for making the course of instruction in the school a more thorough and advanced one, with the view ultimately of making the D. M. D. an M. D. as well, he was stricken down in that which I know he would call the beginning of his useful- ness. But he had accomplished much. Few men of three score and ten have done as well; and now we, filled with a laudable ambition to do as well as we may in the great arena of Life, stand- 22 IN MEMORIAM. ing on the threshold of the noble profession in which he achieved so much, and to which he gave his life in martyrdom, reviewing his memory and appreciating the boons which his labors have brought us, would draw its best lessons from the story of his life. As I have said, they are two, each of the greatest worth : — 1st, thorough pre- paration for the future profession; and, 2nd, con- stant, earnest, honest labors in that profession, reaching ever forward and upward after the best theory and the best practise, and striving always to lead others in the same direction. It was the persistent following out of these principles that led Dr. Hitchcock to his eminent position." The Boston Society for Dental Improvement adopted the following resolutions: Whereas it has pleased the Infinite Father to remove from our midst, by death, Thomas Barnes Hitchcock, M. D., D. M. D., and Whereas Dr. Hitchcock by the exhibition of a IN MEMORIAM. 23 high order of intellect and great energy Mid in- dustry commanded our respect, and by his honor- able professional bearing, and his many genial and kindly social qualities won the warm affection of our hearts, therefore, Resolved, That by the death of Dr. Hitchcock the profession of dentistry loses one of its brightest ornaments, and the allied profession of medicine one of its most zealous and devoted students. Resolved, That as professor in the Dental School of Harvard University and Dean of its Faculty, he devoted himself to its interests, advancement and success, with an ability and a self-sacrificing zeal which no successor can hope to excel, and greatly aided in placing it in its present high position among similar institutions. Resolved, That as a practitioner of dentistry, though kindly charitable to the deficiencies of others, he yet imposed upon himself the achieve- ment of the highest attainable excellence, and in its pursuit, time, money and health were freely sacrificed. 24 IN MEMORIAM. Resvlved, That in every position, as instructor, practitioner and associate, his aspirations were high, his methods honorable, his usefulness and success eminent. Resolved, That deeply sensible of their loss, we tender to the bereaved family of the deceased our heartfelt sympathy and condolence. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded by the Secretary to the widow of the deceased, and that they be offered for publication in the daily papers. T. 0. Loveland, Secretary B. S. D. I. At a meeting of the Massachusetts Dental So- ciety the following resolutions were passed : Resolved, That we cherish with increasing re- gard the memory of our departed friend and fellow member, Thomas B. Hitchcock, and that his bright example of truthfulness, his earnestness and his perseverance in what he conceived to be his duty, will be kept in our hearts to stimulate IN MEMORIAM. 25 us ever to be in these respects like him, and as a glorious tribute to his memory. Resolved, That the Massachusetts Dental Society in losing his presence, and his voice and energy, has met with a loss in its power of use and benefit to the dental profession and art, and in its service to humanity. From the first he was with the Society as one of its founders, and at the last he was working for its interests, and the purity of his life was only equalled by his devotion to duty. Resolved, That we desire to unite with his friends in mourning our loss, and we trust with unswerving faith that our loss may be for his great gain. Resolved, That as a token of sympathy and regard we will forward to his family a copy of these resolutions. J. T. Codman, J. H. Batchelder, E. G. Leach, Committee of Massachusetts Dental Society. 4 26 IN MEMORIAM. At a meeting of the New York Odontological Society, November 17,1874, the following minute was adopted, and a memorial page set apart for its insertion in the record books : The New York Odontological Society desires to record the tribute due to the memory of Dr. Thomas B. Hitchcock, late one of our correspond- ing members. His death adds another name to the list of those whom the profession will do well to remember and honor. A man of rare industry and abundant in resources nearly allied to ge- nius, all of which were unsparingly devoted to the education and advancement of his special profession. The Odontological Society gladly accepts the duty of keeping ever fresh in memory the name of Thomas B. Hitchcock. Wm. Jarvie, Jr., Recording Secretary. At the meeting of the same Society, held on the 14th of December, 1874, Dr. Thomas H. Chandler, of Boston, read the paper on "The Physical IN MEMORIAM. . 27 Properties of Dental Amalgams, by the late Dr. Thomas B. Hitchcock, making the following introductory remarks: I would state before beginning to read this paper that I have not added a word to it myself. It is in the condition in which it was left by Prof. Hitchcock, with the exception of the matter of some of the experiments. I found them on detached pieces of paper and I simply copied them off. The first part of the paper was entirely completed and written out. The last work of his life was the writing of this paper, and as he had given so much time and labor, and finally his life, to these investigations, I thought it ought not to be lost; so I volunteered my services, took the matter in hand, and carried it to completion as far as I have been able. Dr. James Truman,* Professor of Dental His- tology and Operative Dentistry in the Pennsyl- 28 IN MEMORIAM. vania College of Dental Surgery, referring to the paper read by Dr. Chandler, said: I regret, with others, the untimely death of Prof. Hitchcock. It has deprived the profession of one of its most useful and honorable members, and one who was doing much good in the direction of original investigation. His ardent temperament may have led to excess of labor, but while we sadly feel that he fell a sacrifice to his love of scientific truth, it is nevertheless true, that the work he performed so well is what we most need at the present time. It is certainly a most prom- ising indication of a higher professional standard that an increasing number are engaged in original investigations, in a generous rivalry to enlighten each other. The American Academy of Dental Science adopted the following resolutions, presented by their committee: IN MEMORIAM. 29 Resolved, That in the death of Dr. Thos. B. Hitchcock, the cause of dental education has lost an earnest worker and a devoted student; that society and his patients have lost an honest and able professional man; and this Academy has lost a member noted for his strong friendships and high integrity. Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to forward a copy of this resolution to his family, to whom we tender our heartfelt sympathies. Geo. T. MoffItt, L. D. Shepard, W. Lewis Tucker, Jacob L. Williams, Committee. At a meeting of the American Dental Associa- tion, held at Detroit, Michigan, on the 5th of Au- gust, 1874, Dr. Bogue, Chairman of the Committee to draft Memorial Resolutions relative to the death of Dr. Hitchcock, reported the following, which were unanimously adopted: 30 IN MEMORIAM. Whereas this Association has with sorrow learned of the death of Prof. Thomas B. Hitchcock, of the Harvard Dental School, one of our most valuable members — the chairman for this year of the Committee on Histology and Microscopy — there- fore, Resolved, That we signify in this public manner our sense of the great loss which the profession and the cause of dental education has sustained, and that this resolution be inserted in the records in the place where the report of the Committee would have appeared. E. A. Bogue, J. Taft, L. D. Shepard, Committee. Although so young in professional life, Professor Hitchcock had a high reputation in Europe, as appears from the following editorial notice of him in the London Monthly Review, which is the leading Dental Review of England: IN MEMORIAM. 31 " The sad news of the premature death of Dr. Hitchcock, the Dean and the life and soul of the Harvard Dental School, has arrived since the last number was issued. He is best known in this country as the editor and annotator of Wedl's Dental Pathology, and the author of Reports on Dental Histology. " Threatened, a few years ago, with Phthisis, he was unable to relax his labors in science, in prac- tise and at the school; now he has succumbed to an attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis, adding one other to the roll of victims of overwork. " An enthusiast in all he undertook, he has won for himself the highest esteem of the medical profession in Boston. Now that he has gone, it will indeed be hard to fill his place, for few such as he are to be found in the ranks of our pro- fession. " Honest of purpose, fearless of speech, and kindly of heart, he has won the heart and admira- tion of every one with whom he came in contact. Now that he has died in the prime of his life and 32 IN MEMORIAM. in his full vigor, none will be more missed or more sincerely mourned. It will, indeed, be long before those who have lost in him a warm-hearted and dear friend, will cease to recall the memory of pleasant hours spent with Dr. Hitchcock." The following paragraphs are from a letter of Dr. Leach, who knew Dr. Hitchcock most inti- mately : Boston, December 20, 1875. I have carefully examined all the papers left with me, relating to the life, labors and death of the late Professor T. B. Hitchcock. I do not see anything which any suggestion of-mine would im- prove ; but to one who has had the opportunity of so closely observing his work and life and their results as I have been permitted to do for the last ten years, all that is stated in those papers, or that could be written at this time by any of his friends — without being thought extravagant — seem but a poor expression of what he was to the IN MEMORIAM. 33 profession and the college in which he had with such ability and self-sacrifice filled one of its most important chairs from the first of its work. Perhaps there is no one who has looked with more intense interest on his labors in the Den- tal School than I have, for reasons which some of his friends will in part understand; and I must say that my fondest hopes and expectations have been more than realized. And so far as his con- nection with the School and our profession is concerned, I am consoled, as I know you and the dear ones left behind will be, with the conviction that he did the work of a full lifetime in a few short years. It is a duty which his friends owe to those in our profession who survive him, or are to come after him, to let them know that his excellences were observed and are to some extent appreciated. Hence I bid you God-speed in preparing such a memorial of him. E. G. Leach. 34 IN MEMORIAM. In his patriotism Dr. Hitchcock was as ardent and self-sacrificing as in his chosen profession. Obedient to the call of his country, his fidelity and self-abnegation characterized him in the field of carnage and in the hospitals. General Burrell writes of him: It was with feelings of profound regret that I learned of the sudden decease of Dr. Thomas B. Hitchcock, late Assistant Surgeon of the regi- ment under my command. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 42d Regt. Mass. Vols., November 11, 1862, and served with the regi- ment faithfully until its departure for New Orleans. Upon his arrival in that city with the regiment, owing to the disaster at Galveston which resulted in the capture of the lamented Surgeon A. I. Cummings, the entire medical charge of the regiment unexpectedly devolved upon him, which arduous duties he performed with honor to himself, and to the entire satisfaction of his superior officers. Being then desirous of more active IN MEMORIAM. 35 duties, he was detailed upon the staff of the gen- eral commanding the department of the Gulf, where he served with distinction during the re- mainder of his term of service, receiving honor- able mention from the commanding general. His high personal integrity and moral worth won for him the respect and esteem of his asso- ciates, and his early departure will be mourned by all his former comrades, and by none more deeply than myself. Believe me ever, your sympathizing friend, Isaac S. Burrell, (Late) Col. 42d Regt. Mass. Vols. In a letter from Gen. Banks, that officer writes: It was with very sincere regret that I learned the death of Dr. Thomas B. Hitchcock. He was in the prime of life and capable of rendering great service to his friends and the public if his life had been spared. As an officer of the 42nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, for a con- 36 IN MEMORIAM. siderable period employed on duties connected with the General Staff at the Headquarters of the Department of the Gulf, I had the best oppor- tunity to observe his official career, and to esti- mate properly his capacity and character. He was indefatigable in the discharge of his duties, patriotic in all his impulses, and faithful to the military service and to the best interests of the country. His character was without a blemish, and he sustained to the end of his life the respect and esteem of his comrades and associates of the army. It gives me great satisfaction to acknowl- edge my high appreciation of his character, and to express the hope that some proper recognition of his services as a public officer, and his unsullied name as a citizen may be made. With high respect, Your obedient servant, N. P. Banks. The following article appeared in the Boston Daily Globe at the time of Dr. Hitchcock's death: * IN MEMORIAM. 37 Dr. Thomas B. Hitchcock.— The announce- ment in the papers of the death of Dr. Thomas B. Hitchcock will touch with sorrow many hearts in our community. Just in the prime of a useful and honorable manhood, it has seemed good to the Great Giver of all, to call him back to Him- self. After graduation at the Harvard Medical School, in 1860, he adopted dentistry as his specialty, and in that direction was working with his native energy when the war called him to the assumption of more arduous duties and greater responsibility. He was appointed Assistant Sur- geon of the 42d Regiment of Massachusetts Vol- unteers, under Colonel Burrell. The loss of his superior officer left him to perform the duties of the position, which he continued to do until mustered out of service. Upon his return he at once resumed the practise of dentistry, and in 1868 was appointed Professor of Pathology and Therapeutics in the Dental School of Harvard University, which position he filled so well, devote ing all the energies of his nature to the faithful 38 IN MEMORIAM. performance of every duty, and the acquirement of every new advance in knowledge, so thoroughly imbuing himself with his subject that it will be difficult to fill his place. On the resignation of Dr. Keep, he was appointed Dean of the school, and entered upon his new duties with an eager ardor which has identified him with the cause of dental education, to which he has fallen a martyr. Faithful and conscientious in the performance of every duty, earnest for the honor and advance- ment of the profession to which he has devoted himself, he has won the love of those who were associated with him in his work, and the affection- ate regard of many who employed his professional services. Harvard University. Rental ^eparfmenf. 1874. FACULTY. CHABLES WILLIAM ELIOT, LL.D. PRESIDENT. Oliver W. Holmes, M.D., Professor of Anatomy. Henry J. Bigelow, M.D., Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery. Thomas H. Chandler, D.M.D., Professor of Mechanical Dentistry. Thomas B. Hitchcock, M.D., D.M.D., Professor of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics. George T. Moffatt, M.D., D.M.D., Professor of Operative Dentistry. Nathaniel W. Hawes, Assistant Professor of Operative Dentistry. Luther D. Shepard, D.D.S., Adjunct Professor of Operative Dentistry. Edward S. Wood, M.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Henry P. Bowditch, M.D., Assistant Professor of Physiology. Edward A. Bogue, M.D., University Lecturer on Dental Pathology and Therapeutics. Ira A. Salmon, D.D.S., University Lecturer on Operative Dentistry. Samuel F. Ham, D.M.D., Demonstrator of Mechanical Dentistry. Charles B. Porter, M.D., Demonstrator of Practical Anatomy. Charles Wilson, D.M.D., Demonstrator in Charge. THOS. B. HITCHCOCK, M.D., D.M.D., Dean. am c CCCl < •> C hl«L . c , •X>*v<. «s^_ cCCfc «s«c .cccc c< frrc C C cCS< c c ccccc ^r1" <- < < - ' < r ' c C( c .c - < c a c c <- < , crc < c c i c| ax J£ C A C- c c ^ < x c < < c «: etc- <^ccc <: V' .c etc r < Ccc-c- v<: «■«-<- cc cc cc c C C% CC C> <&& CC c i . 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