PROCEEDINGS
IN BEHALF OF THE
MORTON  TESTIMONIAL.
M. L. BROOKS, M. D.,
G. C, E. WEBER, M. D.,
PROCTOR THAYER, M. D.,
WM. J. SCOTT, M. D.,
CHARLES A. TERRY, M. I),
E. <fc II. K. GUSHING, M. D.,
 Executive Ccmmitee en Morion Testimonial.;
     CLEYELAND, OHIO.
1 866. 
  On the Uth day of July, at a meeting of medical gentlemen interested in
bringing more prominently before the public the claim of Dr. Win. T. O. Mor •
ton, of Boston, in respect to the discovery of Etherization, was  held at the
Mayor's office.  On  motion, Dr. Chas. A. Terry was elected President, and
Dr. H. J. Herrick, Secretary.   Dr.  Terry then addressed the meeting, ex-
plaining its objects, when Dr.  Morton proceeded to give a detailed account
of the discovery by himself, its  mode of preparation,  administration,  and
the bitter experience he had had in its introduction.   Upon the conclusim
ot his remarks, Dr. Terry urged that the meeting should take action on the
subject.  And on motion of Dr. Brooks and  seconded by Dr. Thayer, it
was agreed by the meeting that the annexed statement should be  signed
by the members of the profession present.  And on motion of Dr. Herrick
a committee composed of Drs.  Herrick, Darby  and Dutton, was appointed
to circulate the paper for the signatures of other members of the profession.
On motion of Dr. Brooks  an executive  committee was appointed for the
purpose of taking tlxe necessary steps to bring the matter before the citizens
of Cleveland.   When the Chairman appointed Drs. Weber, Brooks,  Thayer
and Scott, and on motion, Dr.  Terry was  added,  when  the  meeting ad-
journed.
                                       H. J. HERRICK, Secretary.

                PREAMBLES AND RESOLUTIONS.
  Whereas, After innumerable trials, made during the last nineteen years,
it has been established to the satisfaction of the world that the  inhalation
of sulphuric ether may be  safely employed for producing insensibility to
pain ; and,
  Whereas, The attention of the Medical profession, and, through it, of the
public generally, was directed to this fact by Dr. W. T. G. Morton, of Bos-
ton, who first practically demonstrated that ether may be safely used  by
inhalation for- annulling  pain, in the  Massachusetts General Hospital,
where, on the 16th day  of October,  1846, a severe surgical operation
was successfully performed by the late Dr.  John C. Warren, without pain
to the patient, whilst under the influence of  sulphuric  ether,  administered
by Dr.  Morton; and,
  Whereas, Our National Government, whilst admitting the claims of Dr.
Morton, has failed to reward him for this great service  to his country and to
humanity;
  Resolved, That in the opinion of the undersigned, the world is indebted to
Dr.  Morton, for having practically proved the value and safety of ether, as
an anaesthetic agent, which directly led to the use  of chloroform, ar.d that
he is, therefoie, entitled to the  lasting gratitude of mankind.
  Resolved, That we cordially  recommend to our fellow citizens the  Na
tional Testimonial Fund, lately commenced in Boston,  New York and other
cities, in behalf of Dr. Morton.
               CHARLES A.  TERRY, M. D., Chairman,
               H.  J.  HERRICK,  M. D., Secretary.
M. L. BROOKS, M. D,            JOHN E. DARBY, .M.  I).,
A. W.  BURROWS. M. D.,         W. D. STURTEVANT,  M. D.,
A. S.  PALMER, M. D,            D. C  WASHINGTON, M. D„
C. F. DUTTON. M.  D..            GUSTAV C. E. WEBER, M.  D,
PROCTOR THAYER, M. D,       J. H. SALISBURY. M. D.,
JOHN DICKINSON, M. D,        E.  & H. K. CUSHJNG,  M. D.,
A. C. .MESSENGER,  M.  D,        W.M.J. SCOTT. M. D,
N.  H.  NELSON, M. D.,           E. STERLING,  a\I.  D,
I. H.  MARSHALL, M.  D,         ALLEYN MAYNARD,  M. D.
J. D' KEEGAX. M. D.,            J. LANG CASSELS, M I).
S. B.  LLRNHA.M, M. D. 
PROCEEDINGS
IN BEHALF OF THE
MORTON  TESTIMONIAL.
     BOSTON:
PRINTED BY GEO. C. RAND & AVERY,
     No. 3 Corn hill
      1861. 
W/DA
At 8 °[ ■ i p 
TESTIMONIAL TO DR. WM. T. G. MORTON.
                       Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 1861.

   More than fourteen years have elapsed since the first
 application of Sulphuric Ether as an Anaesthetic agent.
 During this period its use has been extended over the
 whole civilized world; it has been employed in private
 dwellings, in hospitals, and upon the field of battle, and
 has been hailed as the  most beneficent gift conferred
 upon mankind since the discovery of Vaccination.  It
 has enabled every human being  to  contemplate  pain,
 disease, and death with comparative composure; and
 its loss, were such a thing possible, would be universally
 regarded as a  calamity to our race.
   The Anaesthetic properties of Ether, if before known,
 had  never been before  practically applied, and except
 for the courage, energy, and perseverance of Dr. Mor-
 ton, they would not probably have been applied to this
 day.   The peculiar claim of Dr. Morton is  not  merely
 that he introduced the use  of Ether, but that he first
 demonstrated  the fact that the human  system can  be
 safely reduced to a condition in which  it becomes un-
 conscious of the sufferings  of disease, the pain of sur-
 gical operations, and the pangs of childbirth.  The same
 purpose has since been effected by Chloroform and other
agents, but it is not assuming too much to say that, ex-
cept for the demonstration of this great fact of the pos- 
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sibility  and safety of Anaesthesia, their  employment
would never have been suggested.
  But while all mankind have been benefited, Dr. Mor-
ton has  been a loser, to a large amount, by his exertions,
in a worldly point of view;  and in consequence of the
time consumed, the expenses incurred, and the suspen-
sion of his professional labors, he is less advantageously
situated than before.  This does not seem just, and  it
is now proposed to procure and present to him an ade-
quate testimonial, not as a compensation, for a full com-
pensation is in its nature impossible, but as a remuner-
ation for his expenditure, and an expression of the deep
and grateful sense  entertained by his fellow-creatures
of the inestimable benefit he has conferred upon them.
  With the view of obtaining effectual  co-operation in
other places, a meeting of a committee of fifty gentle-
men was held at the  house  of Dr. J. Mason  Warren,
January 26, 1861, and as a result of this  meeting the
following organization has been adopted.   The  aid of
the medical profession, and the public in general, is now
respectfully solicited to assist in  carrying into effect this
laudable purpose.   It is proposed that a public subscrip-
tion be instituted, the avails of which  shall be paid into
the hands of Amos  A. Lawrence and  John Lowell, of
Boston, Trustees, to be held, appropriated, and invested
for  the benefit of  Dr. Morton and his family. 
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                             PRESIDENT :

                   Dr.  JAMES  JACKSON,
    Emeritus Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine, Harvard University.

                          VICE-PRESIDENTS:
 Dr. JACOB  BIGELOW,
            President American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
     GEO. HAYWARD,
            Consulting Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital.
     S.  D. TOWNSEND,
            Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital.
     EDW. REYNOLDS,
            Consulting Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital.
 C.  C. FELTON,  LL. D.,
            President Harvard University.
 Dr. JOHN HOMANS,
            President Massachusetts Medical Society;
            Consulting Physician Massachusetts General Hospital.
     JOHN JEFFRIES,
            Consulting Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital.
 JARED SPARKS, LL. D.,
            Late President of Harvard University.
 ROBERT C  WINTHROP, LL.  D.,
            President of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

                       GENERAL COMMITTEE:
Dr: JOHN C. DALTON.
DANIEL TREADWELL.
            Formerly Kumford Professor in Harvard University.
Dr. CHARLES G. PUTNAM.
    DANIEL D.  SLADE.
    HENRY  I. BOWDITCH,
            Physician to Massachusetts General Hospital.
    HENRY  G. CLARK,
            Surgeon to Massachusetts General Hospital.
    OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,
            Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Harvard University. 
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Dr. J.  MASON WARREN,
           Surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital.
    ROBERT W. HOOPER,
           Surgeon to the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary.
    WILLIAM J. DALE.
    HENRY J.  BIGELOW,
           Surgeon to Massachusetts General Hospital.
    CHARLES  E. BUCKINGHAM.
    GEORGE H. LYMAN.
    EDWARD H. CLARKE,
           Professor of Materia Medica in Harvard University.
    LUTHER PARKS, Jr.
    J. BAXTER UPHAM.

                    EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE :
Dr. JOHN WARE,
           Late Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine iu Harvard University.
    DAVID W. CIIEEVER.
    J, N. BORLAND.
    C.  D. HOaMANS.
    ROBERT WARE.
    JAMES C. WHITE.
    RICHARD M. HODGES.
    CALYTN  G. PAGE.

                          TRUSTEES :
AMOS A. LAWRENCE,
          . Treasurer of Harvard University.
JOHN  LOWELL.

                          SECRETARY :
FRANCIS MLNOT,
           Physician to Massachusetts General Hospital. 
            PROCEEDINGS

                 IN BEHALF OF THE

MORTON   TESTIMONIAL.
   At a meeting of  Medical  Gentlemen, held at the
house of  Dr. Jacob Bigelow, on the evening of Jan-
uary 26, 1861, for the purpose of bringing before the
community the claims of Dr. W. T. G. Morton to a sub-
stantial recompense for the benefit which he has con-
ferred on mankind by the discovery of the anaesthetic
properties  of Sulphuric Ether, Dr. John Ilomans was
elected Chairman, and Dr. Francis Minot, Secretary; and
the following Resolutions were adopted:—
   Resolved, 1st.  That this meeting view with great in-
terest and satisfaction the movement inaugurated in
Boston, New York,  and Philadelphia,* in behalf of the
Morton  Testimonial, and take  this  occasion to renew
their expression  of approval and sympathy.
   2d.  That  the meeting  commend  the  subscription
proposed for the  Testimonial to the favor and support
of the American people, and most cordially join in the
commendation bestowed  upon  it by  institutions  and
scientific men throughout the  country.
   Sd.  That in view of the present condition and objects
to be attained by  the Testimonial, it is expedient to
pp. 13 to 34. 
8
make an immediate effort to take up a general subscrip-
tion in this community, which  is the scene of Dr. Mor-
ton's labors and  experiments, and  the  city where the
discovery was made, and the Testimonial had its origin.
  ilk.   That  a Committee  be appointed by the Chair
from gentlemen  out of  the profession,  to call on this
community, and  solicit donations and subscriptions in
behalf of the Testimonial, with power to make additions
to their number and substitutions, and to  take such
other action  as they may deem  expedient jto promote
this object.
  Wi.  That a Committee of Medical men be  appointed
by the Chair  to confer with  the Committee on Subscrip-
tions as to the most efficient means of accomplishing
the end in view.
  Wi.   That  it  is  expedient to appeal  especially to
those who have been relieved  by etherization from
intense  pain,  that  they may have an  opportunity to
contribute  according to  their  means.

  On motion of Dr. Bowditch,  the Secretary was re-
quested to notify the members  of both Committees of
their appointment, and to desire them to meet together
at such time and place as he may see expedient, to carry
out the  objects of this meeting.

  The Chair appointed the  following Committees: —

                       LAYMEN.
           Amos A. Lawrence, 17 Milk Street.
          Charles Amory, 54 City Exchange.
          J. Ingersoll Bowditch, 54 State Street.
          John Lowell, 42 Court Street.
          John T. Stetson, 8 Milk: Street.
          William Appleton, Jr. 24 Tremont Street.
          Moses Williams, Jr. 105 State Street.
          Daniel S. Curtis, 4 State Street. 
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John Joseph May, comer Broad and State streets.
Martin Brimmer, 48 Beacon Street.
A. W. Spencer, 13 Congress Street.
Samuel Frothingham, Jr. 69 Franklin Street.
Thomas J. Lee, 60 State Street.
Warren Sawyer, 7 Blackstone Street.
J. D. W. Joy, 17 AMilk Street.
Prescott Bigelow, 1 Postoffice Avenue.
JosEPn Burnett, 27 Central Street.
John H. Thorndike, 29 Edinboro' Street.
B. W. Taggard, 29 Cornhill.
Gardner Brewer, Federal, comer Franklin Street.
Theodore Metcalf, 39 Tremont Street.
P. W. Chandler, 4 Court Street.
Thornton K. Lothrop, 42 Court Street.
Charles T. Randall, Devonshire, between Franklin and Summer
    streets.
G. S. Hillard, Niles Block, School Street.
James T. Fields, comer School and Washington streets.
William G.  Weld.
Edw.vrd T.  Eastman.
                           MEDICAL.

      James Jackson,                    Henry I. Bowditch,
      Jacob Bigelow,                    0.  W. Holmes,
      George Hayward,                 John H. Dix,
      John Ware,                       Charles G. Putnam,
      John Homans,                     J. Mason Warren,
      S. D. Townsend,                   Henry J. Bigelow,
      John Jeffries,                    Henry  G. Clark.
      A. A. Gould,

                         JOHN  HOMAXS,  m.d.,  Chairman.

FRANCIS   MINOT, m.d.,  Secretary. 
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  The following Address is set  forth by a Sub-Com-
mittee appointed at a meeting held  at  the house of
Dr. J. Mason  Warren, in pursuance  of  the foregoing
object.

                            Boston,  March 4, 1861.
Sir:
    We  beg  leave  to address you in regard to  the
claims and services  of Dr.  W. T. G.  MortOa\,  as con-
nected with  the discovery  of producing  insensibility
to pain by the anaesthetic  effects  of sulphuric ether.
That this discovery has been an inestimable blessing to
mankind, and  that it is  regarded as  one of the most
important applications of science to the uses of life that
has been  made, even in  this age of improvement and
progress, is beyond dispute.
  While there is not an entire unanimity of opinion as
to Dr. Morton's  claims to the priority of  the discovery,
all who have  investigated the subject agree that  the
pre-eminent merit of first establishing by experiment
what  was  before only a  surmise or a conjecture is  his;
and that without his courage, energy, and perseverance,
the discovery would  not have been  put into practical
operation.  This is enough to  make Dr. Morton  one of
the benefactors of his race.  His discovery is now in
use all over the civilized world; everywhere it is light-
ening the trying duties of the Medical Profession; sooth-
ing the pain  of the  suffering, and, what is hardly less
valuable, taking away that apprehension  of pain, which
to the nervous and sensitive is like suffering itself.
  But Dr. Morton has experienced the common fate of
inventors and discoverers.   So far from being a gainer,
he has been a loser to a very large amount, by the sac- 
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rifices and expenses incurred by him in introducing his
discovery and vindicating his claims.  It is not proposed
to bestow upon Dr. Morton a pecuniary equivalent for
his discovery; indeed, the worth of a discovery like his
is  not susceptible of a money value, though  some ap-
proximation to it may be made by considering what
sum mankind would be willing to give for such a bless-
ing,  supposing  they had it not.  But we think he is
justly entitled, not merely to a return of all  expenses
incurred, but to some  further  expression of the grateful
sense which his  services to humanity have everywhere
awakened.   Thirty thousand pounds were given, in two
successive grants, by the British Parliament to Dr. Jen-
ner; and no one would deem a like sum an extravagant
remuneration for the civilized world to bestow upon Dr.
Morton.
   The undersigned, a Committee appointed at a Meetr
ing of Gentlemen of the Mediae! and other Professions,
held at the house of Dr. J. Mason Warren, on Tuesday,
February 26, have  the honor  to address you on this
subject, and to solicit your aid  in behalf of the object
above set forth.  Such contributions as you may see fit
to make will be received by Amos A. Lawrence or John
Lowell, who have consented  to act as Trustees of the
fund which may be  collected,  or by any member of the
Joint Committee on the Morton Testimonial.

                     John Homans,     "]
                     John Ware,      I
                     Geo. S. Hillard,  f Committee.
                     Chas.  G. Putnam, J
Francis Minot, Secretary. 
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           The undersigned  having been appointed Trustees of
 tlv fund to he raised as a Testimonial to Dr. Morton, for  his
 discovery of Etherization ; and having accepted this tnist, deem
 it their duty to state for  the  information  of those ivho may be
 asked to contribute, that it is not designed merely to present him
 tvith  an honorable memento of the services which he has ren-
 dered to mankind, hut  to afford him relief from  the  embar-
 rassments which his discovery has brought upon him.
   It is necessary for us, therefore, to say that Dr. Morton has
 sacrificed all his property, and all  the profits of  his profession,
 in introducing his discovery, and in establishing his claim, and
 that he has senously impaired his  health;  that  he  has failed
 to obtain compensation from the Government for the use of
 Ether by the Army  and Navy, though a bill has been twice
poised through one House  of Congress for that purpose, and
 that he has no hope of any public compensation.
   Under these circumstances, is it asking too much to  bestow
 on one who is the  author cf the most beneficent  discovery of
 this age, the means of an ample support for himself and his
 family?
   Believing that all who have experienced the  inestimable bene-
 fits  of Ether  in its  various forms in alleviating pain, or ivho
 have seen its effects upon  others, will deem it a privilege to give
 some  substantial proof  to the discoverer, of their appreciation
 of its value, we forbear  to give the details of his labors and his
 misfortunes.
                   AMOS  A. LAWRENCE,
                   JOHN  LOWELL,
   Boston, March  4, 1861.
Trustees. 
              TESTIMONIAL
                        OF

THE  MEDICAL  PROFESSION
                        OF

    PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, AND BOSTON. ,
                PROCEEDINGS
OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF PHILADELPHIaY,  IX BEHALF OF
                  W. T. G. MORTON, M. D.

  A meeting of  the members of the medical profession
who had indorsed the  Testimonial in behalf of Dr. W.
T. G.Morton, was held at the Hospital Buildings, Spruce
Street, on Monday, March 20, 1860; when, on motion,
Dr. Wilson Jewell was called to the chair, and Dr. T. H.
Bache was chosen Secretary.
  The following preamble and resolutions were then
offered, and having been read by the Secretary, were
unanimously adopted: —
  " Whereas, after innumerable trials, made during the
last fourteen years, it has been established to the satis-
faction of the world, that the inhalation of ether may
be safely employed for producing insensibility to pain;
  " And ivhereas, the attention of the medical profession,
and through it of the public  generally, was directed to
this fact by Dr. Wm. T. G. Morton, of Boston, who first
practically demonstrated that ether may be safely used 
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by inhalation for annulling pain, in the Massachusetts
General Hospital, where, on the 16th of October, 1846, a
severe surgical operation was successfully performed by
the late Dr. John C. Warren, without pain to the patient,
whilst under the influence of ether, administered by Dr.
Morton;
  " And whereas, our National Government, whilst admit-
ting the claims of  Dr. Morton, has failed to reward  him
for  this great service to his country and to humanity;
  " Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, the
world is indebted to Dr. Morton for having practically
proved  the value  and  safety of ether as an anaesthetic
agent, and  that  he is, therefore, entitled to the  lasting
gratitude of mankind.
  " Resolved, That we cordially recommend to our fellow-
citizens the 'National Testimonial Fund,'  lately com-
menced in Boston  and New York in behalf of Dr. Mor-
ton, and that we will do all in  our power  to  influence
them to subscribe to the same.
  -Resolved, That, for the purpose of facilitating  the
subscriptions, a copy of these resolutions, duly authenti-
cated by the officers of this meeting, be  furnished to
Messrs. Brown, Brothers, & Co., the  receivers for  this
city, together with such other documents in explanation
of the Testimonial as may be approved by the  officers
of this meeting."
  On motion, the  Secretary was  directed to  transmit a
copy of these Resolutions to Dr. Morton.
  On motion, adjourned.
                             WILSON JEWELL, Chairman.
  T. H. Bache, Secretary. 
TESTIMONIAL
 OF MEMBERS  OF  THE MEDICAL  PROFESSION
                  OF  PHILADELPHIA.

                          IN BEHALF OF

             WILLIAM  T.  G.  MORTON, M.D.

 To their Fellow-Citizens : —
                                        February 15,  1860.
   The vast importance of the effect of the inhalation of Ether, in
 preventing and suspending pain, has long ceased to be a matter
 of doubt among the members  of the medical profession, and  is
 too well known to the intelligent citizens of Philadelphia  to need
 any further exposition.  Etherization has been tested in countless
 instances, under a great  variety of  circumstances, during  more
 than twelve  years of constant employment by thousands of  oper-
 ators ;  and the  result of this unsurpassed experience is decisive in
 confirmation  of its safety and efficiency as a suppressor of physical
 suffering, and a powerful assistant of the healing art.
   Believing, therefore, that anaesthetic inhalation is the most avail-
 able and potent  means of alleviating pain yet  employed in the
practice of surgery, and, consequently, that it is one of the greatest
gifts to humanity of the  present age, we cannot but regard the
original  and successful  introducer of this  invaluable boon as
entitled to the  warm gratitude of mankind.
   We  believe  the practical originator of anaesthetic inhalation to
be Dr. William T. G. Morton, of Boston, Mass. in whose behalf
we are happy to bear witness in this testimonial.
   We  are convinced that he  is  the one who first  resorted to
ethereal  inhalation for the purpose of producing insensibility to
pain in a patient while undergoing a surgical operation, and  that 
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 he is the one who first succeeded in effecting this result.   He was,
 indisputably, the first to  urge the anesthetic properties of the
 vapor of ether upon the attention of the medical profession,  and
 thus succeeded in establishing the practice of anaesthetic inhala-
 tion.
   We therefore take great pleasure, and at the same time perform
 an act of duty, in recommending the claims of Dr. Morton to the
 lavorable consideration of our fellow-citizens, and would cordially
 urge upon  them the  propriety of showing their estimate of his
 services  by a substantial acknowledgment, such as is manifestly
 due from an enlightened  community  to one who has conferred
 upon its members so inestimable a benefit.
   We may refer  to the annals of medicine in the Old World for
 many  instances in which  analogous discoveries of less moment
 have been  recognized  and paid for by European governments,
 sometimes even before their true value had been ascertained.  The
 length of time which has elapsed since the adoption  of  etheriza-
 tion has  only the more firmly established its position by demon-
 strating its safety and developing its usefulness.
   Our National Government has admitted the justice and impor-
 tance  of Dr. Morton's  claims in  the  introduction  of ethereal
 anaesthesia, but has neglected to provide the proper reward.
   Under these circumstances, the plan  of individual contribution
 has  been successfully  resorted to by the citizens of  Boston and
 Xew York as the best suited to the temper of our people, and  the
 most likely to reach a satisfactory conclusion.
   An opportunity is now offered to the citizens of Philadelphia to
 unite with their  neighbors in the same work of benevolence and
 justice ;  and it is in this that we earnestly desire to interest them.
   We  sincerely  hope that our townsmen, in whose liberality and
 sense of  right we have great confidence, may join us in rendering
the tribute to his merits and-necessities which has elsewhere been
accorded to him, and which we believe him to deserve.


                  University  of Pennsylvania.

   George B.  Wood, m.d., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine.
   Hcgii L. Hodge, m.d., Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and
     Children.
   Joseph C.vrson, m.d., Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy
   Robert E. Rogers, m.d., Professor of Chemistry.
   Joseph Leidy, a. d., Professor of Anatomy. 
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                  Jefferson Medical College.

Joseph Pancoast, m.d., Professor of General, Descriptive, and Surg. Anatomy.
Chas. D. Meigs, m.d., Professor of Obstetrics and Dis. of Women and Children.
Franklin Bache, m.d., Professor of Chemistry.
Samuel D. Gross, m.d., Professor of Institutes and Practice of Surgery.
T. D. Mitchell, m.d., Professor of Materia Medica and General Therapeutics.
Samuel H. Dickson, m.d., Professor of Practice of Medicine.
       Pennsylvania College. — Medical Department.

B. Howard Rand, m.d., Professor of Chemistry.
Henry Hartshorne, m.d., Professor of Practice of Medicine.
Lewis D. Harlow, m.d., Professor of Obstetrics, &c.
William S. Halsey, m.d., Professor of Surgery.
William Hembel TagGaVrt, m.d., Professor of Materia Medica.
James Aitken Meigs, m.d., Professor of Institutes of Medicine.
William II. Gobrecht, m.d., Professor of Anatomy.
Pennsylvania Hospital.
William W. Gerhard, m.d., Physician.
James J. Levick, m.d.,          "
John Forsyth Meigs, m.d.,      "
Francis G. Smith, m.d.,         "
Joseph Pancoast, m.d.,    Surgeon.
Edward Peace, m.d.,       "
Edward Hartshorne, m.d.,  "
Philadelphia Hospital.
S. D. Gross, m.d., Surgeon.
D. II. Agnew, m.d.,   "
R. J. Levis, m.d.,     "
R. S. Kenderdine, m.d., Surgeon.
William Mayburry, m.d., Physician.
J. L. Ludlow, m.d.,
C. Pendleton Tutt, m.d., Physician.
John Wiltbank, m.d.,        "
R. A. F. Penrose, m.d.       "
Lewis D. Harlow, m.d.,      ''
William D. Stroud, m.d.,     "
J. Da Costa, m.d.,           "
Wills  Hospital.
S. Littell, m.d., Surgeon.
Addinell Hewson, m.d., Surgeon.
T. G. Morton, m.d.,
William Hunt, m.d.,
S. L. Hollingsworth, m.d., Physician.
John J. Reese, m.d.,           "
James J. Levick, m.d.,        "
A. Douglass Hall,           "
Episcopal Hospital of  Philadelphia.
J. C. Morris, m.d., Physician.
II. Hartshorne, m.d.,   "
J. Da Costa, m.d.,
Wm. Mayburry, m.d.,  "
William Hunt, m.d., Surgeon.
H. E. Drayton, m.d.,    "
R. S. Kenderdine, m.d., " 
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              Charity Hospital of Philadelphia.

P. B. Goddard, m.d., Surgery.
William H. PaVncOa^st, m.d., Surgery.
Z. Ring Jones, m.d., Eye, Ear, and Urinary Organs.
H. St. Clair Ash, m.d., Diseases of Children.
Burroughs Price,  m.d., Diseases of Digestive Organs,  Brain, and .Nervous
  System.
A. W. Griffiths, m.d., Obstetrics.
Alexander C. Hart, m.d., Diseases of Women.
W. E. Weatiierly, m.d., Diseases of Respiratory Organs.
S. Updegrove, m.d., Diseases of the Skin.
J. L. Ludlow, m.d., Fevers and General Diseases.
              St.  Joseph's Hospital of Philadelphia.

William V. Keating, m.d., Physician.      J. H. B. M'Clellan, m.d., Surgeon.
S. Weir Mitchell, m.d.,       "         Wm. Byrd Page, m.d.,       "
William Keller, m.d.,         "         John H. Brinton, m. d.,     "
A. Bournonville, m.d., Obstetrician.       Joseph Leidy, m.d., Pathologist.
               Children's  Hospital of Philadelphia.

Wm. Pepper, m.d., Consulting Physician.    Wm. R. Dunton, m d., Attending Phy.
John F. Meigs, m.d.,        "             R. A. F. Penrose, m.d.,       "
F. W. Lewis, m.d., Attending Physician.    T. H. Bache, m.d.            "
Pennsylvania Hospital for the  Insane.

TnoMAS S. Kirkbride, m.d., Physician in Chief.
Edward A. Smith, m.d., Resident Physician.
City  Hospital of Philadelphia.

          John Bell, m.d.


     Moyamensing Prison.

      Henry Yale Smith, m.d.
    Board of  Health.

P. B. Goddard, m.d., President 
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Howard Hospital.
General and Special Surgery.
S. D. Gross, m.d.,
D. D. Clark, m.d.,
J. A. Meigs, m.d., Diseases of the Chest.
J. Ki.app, m.d., Diseases of Digestive Organs.
0. A. Judson, m.d., Diseases of the Skin.
G. R. Morehouse, m.d., Diseases of Brain and Nervous System.
W DaVrrach, m.d., Fevers.
E. McClellan, m.d., Diseases of Females.
Charles Neff, m.d., Diseases of the Urinary Organs.
College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
      GEORGE B. WOOD, m.d., President.
 Franklin Bache, m.d., Vice-President.
 Edward Hartshorne, m.d., Secretary.
 J. Rodman Paul, m.d., Treasurer.
 John Bell, m.d.
 Hugh L. Hodge, m.d.
 Charles D. Meigs, m.d.
 R. La Roche, m.d.
 Benjamin Hornor Coates, m.d.
 Lewis P. Gebhard, m.d.
 William Darrach, m.d.
 Theophilus E. Beesley, m.d.
 William W. Gerhard, m.d.
 Joseph Pancoast, m.d.
 D. Francis Condie, m.d.
 Squire Littell, m.d.
 Anthony Bournonville, m.d.
 Joseph Carson, m.d.
 Thomas S.  Kirkbride, m.d.
 Francis West, m.d.
 Edward Peace, m.d.
 William Peeper, m.d.
 David C. Skerrett, m.d.
 John D. Griscom, m.d.
 PaVul Beck Goddard, m.d.
 Alfred Stille, m.d.
 John J. Reese, m.d.
 John Forsyth Meigs, m.d.
 Lewis Rodman, m.d.
 Francis G. Smith, m.d.
 Washington L. Atlee, m.d.
 John Neill, m.d.
 Samuel D.  Gross, m.d.
 Anthony E. Stocker, m.d.
 GOUVERNEUR EMERSON, M.D.
James E. I.hoads, m.d.
T. Stewardson, m.d.
E. Wallace, m. d.
Joseph Klapp, m.d.
Samuel L. Holling^worth, m.d.
John L. Ludlow, m.d.
John H. B. M'Clellan, m.d.
William V. Keating, m.d.
D. Paul Lajus, m.d.
Thomas S. Reed, m.d.
Richard H. Townsend, m.d.
Isaac Remington, m.d.
John B. Biddle, m.d.
Henry E. Drayton, m.d.
Caspar Morris, m.d.
James J. Levick, m.d.
JosEpn Leidy, m.d.
Wilson Jewell, m.d.
Henry Hartshorne, m.d.
William Keller, m.d.
William Mayburry, m.d.
Thomas Hewson Bache, m.d.
James V. Emlen, m.d.
Joseph Hopkinson, m.d.
William H. Hooper, m.d.
Addinell Hewson, m.d.
David Gilbert, m.d.
B. Howard Rand, m.d.
William Hunt, m.d.
R. A. F. Penrose, m.d.
William H. Gobrecht, m.d.
William D. Stroud, m.d.
Nathan L. Hatfield, m.d.
S. Weir Mitchell, m.d.
John H. Brinton, m.d.
Francis W. Lewis, m.d.
Samuel Lewis, m.d.
T. DlLLARD, M.D.
G. H. Robinett, m.d.
S. O Brinckle, m.d. 
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Philadelphia County Medical  Society.

     ISAAC REMINGTON, m.d., President.
David Gilbert, m.d., Vice-President.
Joseph Carson, m.d.,     "
W. B. Atkinson, m.d., Secretary.
S. D. Gross, m.d.
D. Francis Condie, m.d.
Wilson Jewell, m.d.
Joseph Pancoast, m.d.
Charles D. Meigs, m.d.
R. E. Rogers, m.d.
Edward Peace, m.d.
John Bell, m.d.
S. LlTTELL, M.D.
W. W. Gerhard, m.d.
D. Paul Lajus, m.d.
Addinell  Hewson, m.d.
J. H. B. M'Clellan, m.d.
A. Nebinger, m.d.
D. D. Clark, m.d.
E. Ward, m.d.
S. Weir Mitchell, m.d.
J. Cheston Morris, m.d.
R. H. Townsend, m.d.
T. M. Drysdale, m.d.
William D. Stroud, m.d.
Anthony Bournonville, m.d.
W. K. Gilbert, m.d.
Theophilus E. Beesley, m.d.
R. S. Kenderdine, m.d.
C F. Wtittig, m.d.
J. H. Haskell, m.d.
Robert Q. Shelmerdine, m.d.
Robert C Shelmerdine, m.d.
J. Henry Smaltz, m.d.
Levi Curtis, m.d.
Samuel B. Wylie Mitchell, m.d.
Edward Maris, m.d.
a\ugustus  C. Bournonville, m.d.
J. G. Hunt, m.d.
James V. Emlen, m.d.
George B. Wood, m.d.
Franklin Bache, m.d.
N. L. Hatfield, m.d.
Alfred Stille, m.d.
William V. Keating, m.d.
Hugh L. Hodgk, m.d.
JosEpn Leidy, m.d.
Henry Hartshone, m.d.
William Pepper, m.d.
Paul B. Goddard, m.d.
B. H. Coates, M.D.
M. M.  Levis, m.d.
Francis West, m.d.
Lewis D. Harlow, m.d.
Lewis Rodman, m.d.
James Aitken Meigs, m.d.
John Rodman Paul, m.d.
William Hunt, m.d.
D. Hayes Agnew, m.d.
R. J. Levis, m.d.
E. B. Shapleigh, m.d.
John Knoer, m.d.
William Harris, m.d.
John  Wiltbank, m.d.
w. h. gobrecht, m.d.
Samuel Jackson, m.d.
A. Owen Stille, m.d.
William D. Hoyt, m.d.
George J. Ziegler, m.d.
Washington L. Atlee, m.d.
William Curkan, m.d.
W. Darrach, m.d.
James J.  Levick, m.d.
J. Forsyth Meigs, m.d.
Wm. H. Hooper, m.d.
Thomas Hewson Bache, m.d.
John  D. Griscom, m.d.
E. Boylston Jackson, m.d.
A. W. Griffiths, m.d. '
Joseph Klapp, m.d.
Owen Osler, m.d.
Philip De Young, m.d.
J. F. Bird, m.d.
R. H.  Lee, m.d.
Colin Arrott, m.d.
W. Keller, m.d.
H. Evans, m.d.
Preston W. Russell, m.d.
John  S. Roiieer, m.d.
G. Emerson, m.d.
Charles Neff, m.d.
D. C.  Skerrett, m.d.
Wm. Notson, m.d. 
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JonN Wm. Jones, m.d.
F. Scoffin, m.d.
A. S. M'Murray, m.d.
W. H. GlLLINGIIAM, M.D.
Henry Yale Smith, m.d.
T. Stanton Crowly, m.d.
A. H. Fish, m.d.
B. H. Deacon, m.d.
Wm. J. Fleming, m.d.
E. M'Clellan, m.d.
L. P. Gerhard, m.d.
Wm. F. Patterson, m.d.
Wm. Clendaniel, m.d.
Andrew Cheeseman, m.d.
James N. Patterson, m.d.
Joseph Heritage, m.d.
J. Hershey, m.d.
Wm. Byrd Page, m.d
0. J. Wister, m.d.
W. N. Johnson, m.d.
E. F. Leake, m.d.
A. L. Kennedy, m.d.
J. M. Corse, m.d.
Abraham Helffenstein, m.d.
R. W. Richie, m.d.
A. Fricke, m.d.
Wm. Ashmead, m.d.
John F. Lamb, m.d.
H. D. Benner, m.d.
W. S. Forbes, m.d.
Winthrop Sergeant, m.d.
S. C Huston, m.d.
J. Hughes, m.d.
E. Scholfield, m.d.
Northern  Medical  Association.

 JOSEPH R. BRYAN, m.d., President.
L. P. Gebhard, m.d., Vice-President.
Wm. B. Atkinson, m.d., Secretary.
Wm. Mayburry, m.d., Corr. Secretary.
J. Henry Smaltz, m.d., Treasurer.
N. L. Hatfield, m.d.
R. H. Townsend, m.d.
J. J. Woodward, m.d.
A. M. Slocum, m.d.
John Rhein, m.d.
A. C. Bournonville, m.d.
J. M. Eagleton, m.d.
L. Curtis, m.d.
Owen Osler, m.d.
T. W. Craige, m.d.
Theo. A. Demme, m.d-
J. S. Hill, m.d.
S. N. Troth, m.d.
L. S. Somers, M.D,
D. Gilbert, m.d.
R. S. Kenderdine, m.d.
R. Q. Shelmerdine, m.d.
M. M. Levis, m.d.
L. D. Harlow, m.d.
R. J. Levis, m.d.
W. L. Atlee, m.d.
C. WlTTIG, M.D.
S. Updegrove, m.d.
B. Price, m.d.
       Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania.

                  D. F.  C0NDIE, m.d.,  President.


               Philadelphia  Medical Society.
R. La Roche, m.d., President.           John Neill, m.d., Vice-President.
                  A. E.  Stocker, m.d., Secretary.
           Pathological  Society  of  Philadelphia.

A. Stille, m.d., President.              E. Hartshorne, m.d., Vice-Pres.
R. La Roche, m.d., Vice-President.       J. Da Costa, m.d., Secretary.
                 John K. Kane, Assistant Secretary. 
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Biological  Department  of the  Academy of Xatural Sciences
                         of Philadelphia.
     Joseph Leidy, m.d., President.         W. F. Atlee, m.d., Recorder.
Profession at  Large.
C P. Turner, m.d.
0. A. Judson, M.D.
l. d. bodder, m.d.
John Gegan, m.d.
Samuel Tucker, m.d.
Andrew J. Smiley, m.d.
C. S. Wurts, m.d.
James W. Bacon, m.d.
J. R. McClurg, m.d.
E. Shippen, m.d.
\V. S. Shippen, m.d.
(3. S. Bishop, m.d.
Alexander (.'. Hart, m.d.
G. J. Chamberlain, m.d.
Tames D.yrr.vch, m.d.
A. C. Deakyne, m.d.
Morris J. Asci?, m.d.
W. N. Handy, m.d.
N. C. Reid, m.d.
William Graham, m.d.
John H. Brlnton, m.d.
Robert Bollinu, m.d.
William M. Breed, m.d.
E. L. Carter, m.d.
Edward a\. Spooner, m,d.
George B. Morehouse, m.d.
Samuel II. Amiton, m.d.
Jas. D. Mundy, m.d.
C P. La Roche, m.d.
W. Moss, M.D.
J. K. T. Van Pelt, m.d.
J. M. BOISNOT, M.D.
J. C. Cooper, m.d.
S. II. Horner, m. d.
David Burpee, m.d.
A. Pennebaker, m.d.
E. S. Sharp, m.d.
George Spack man, m.d.
Robert Foster, m.d.
Edwin Fussell, m.d.
William Grugg, m.d.
Samuel P. Brown, m.d. 
PROCEEDINGS
    AT A  MEETING OF  THE  MEDICAL PROFESSION  OF NEW YORK.


  On the  24th of June, a meeting of medical gentlemen, interested in raising
a national testimonial for the benefit of the discoverer of Anaesthesia, was held
at the residence of Dr. Willard Parker.
  The hour for organization having arrived, Dr. Parker addressed the meet-
ing, explained its Objects, and proposed for President  Dr. Joseph M. Smith,
which nomination, having been seconded, was voted upon and carried.   Dr.
Gurdon Buck was then elected Corresponding  Secretary,  and Drs.  Bib-
bins and Thomas, Recording Secretaries.
  The meeting being now duly organized, the  business of the evening was
called for, and proceeded in this wise:—

  1. Dr.  JonN  Watson read a  list of the  names of some  of the  most
prominent, benevolent, and wealthy of the citizens of New York, and pro-
posed that each gentleman present should  charge  himself with visiting  such
of them as he had most influence with, and raising as large subscriptions as
possible to head the list.  This was acted upon; a list of one hundred names
was read, and the duty of canvassing them assumed by various gentlemen
composing the meeting.
  2. Dr. Buck moved  that a committee of medical men be appointed to
confer with gentlemen out of the profession as to the most efficient means for
accomplishing the end in view.  This was seconded  by Dr. Parker,  and
carried.  On the Committee, the President then appointed

  Drs.JoHNW. Francis,    Valentine Mott,    James R. Wood,
      Willard Parker,     James Minor,         Gurdon Buck,
      John Watson,        J. Marion Sims,       Jos. M.  Smith ;

and upon motion of Dr.  Sayre, the President was added to it.   This com-
mittee, it  was agreed, should  meet at the house of Dr. Parker at an early
date.
  3.  It was then moved by Dr. Parker,  that a committee of one selected
from the Medical Board  of each public charity  of the city and its vicinity
should be appointed to wait upon the Boards directing the various institutions,
and solicit donations in behalf of the object which has called us together this 
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evening.  Thi.s motion was seconded by  Dr. Watson, and  carried.
following appointments were then made by the (hair:—
The
Dr. Gurdon Buck  .
    James R. Wood
    J. M. Carnochan
    Wm. H. Van Buren
    Benj. Ogden
    J. Moses
    J. M. Sims
    G. L. Elliott
    Elisha ELarris
    T. F. Cock
    IllTCniNSON
    Ayres
    FlTCH
    Dubois
    GARRisn  .
Xeic York Hospital.
Bellevue      "
Emigrants'    "
St.  Vincent's  "
aS7. Luke's    "
Jews'        "
Women's     "
Child's       "
Quarantine   "
\ew York Lying-in Asylum.
Brooklyn City Hospital.
Ix>ng Island College Hospital.
Colored Home Hospital.
Nr-w York Eye Infirmary.
yew York Ophthalmic Hospital.
          **********
  4. It was moved by  Dr. Watson, that the  minutes of this meeting be
transmitted to Dr. Wm. T. (J. Morton, by the Secretary, which was carried.

  Xo further business appearing, the meeting then adjourned.

                            JOSEPH M. SMITH, m.d.,  President.

  Gurdon Buck, m.d.,  Corresponding Secretary.
  T. Gaillard TnoMAS, m.d., Recording Secretary. 
APPENDIX. 
 
APPENDIX A.
                   THE NEW  YORK APPEAL.

  The Medical Profession have, from the earliest ages, felt the
need of some safe and efficient agent for annulling pain.
  The ordinary anodynes, long in  use, have never supplied this
deficiency, and the  various new agents which, within the past
sixty or eighty years, have been substituted for these, have, until
recently, proved either too dangerous or too unreliable to be em-
ployed in general practice.
  Wine and  strong  alcoholic  drinks, given in such quantity as to
induce intoxication,  were  occasionally employed, even before the
commencement of  the  present century,  for  rendering persons
insensible to the pain of surgical operations.  With the same end
in view, some surgeons, addressing the intellect, were  in the habit
of exciting sudden fear, alarm, or astonishment, to divert the atten-
tion of their patients.  Others, again, resorted to the uncertain and
inexplicable influence  of  mesmerism.   Still more recently, the
nitrous oxide gas, administered by inhalation, has, as originally
suggested by  Sir Humphry Davy, been employed for producing
temporary loss of consciousness.  But  this,  too, after a fair trial,
has failed, and the hopes  founded upon it have proved nugatory
and delusive.  So that, up to this point,  the  want of a  reliable
agent for rendering the human body insensible to pain—a want so
long felt, and  to obviate which so  many fruitless efforts had been
made, — was still to  be supplied.  That want,  however, has since
been fully met.
  The first great  triumph  of placing in the hands of the profession
an agent capable of rendering the patient safely,  and at will, utterly
insensible to  the stroke  of the surgeon's knife, was  in detecting
and establishing by experiment the anaesthetic powers of sulphuric
ether.  For this discovery the world is indebted to Dr. Wm. T.  G.
Morton,  of Boston.
  Whatever may have been the steps preliminary to  this remark-
able discovery, Dr. Morton's claim to it is  established beyond  all 
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 controversy, and his  merit  in  thi.s respect, with those who have
 t.aken the trouble to inform  themselves on the  subject, can be no
 longer a question of dispute.
   Xor can the importance of bis  early investigations and experi-
 ments under the guidance of Providence, in reference to the prop-
 erties and uses of ether, be, at the present day, too highly estimated.
 The introduction of this  agent as an anaesthetic, and of the various
 other  agents of the same class—as chloroform, amyline, and the
 like—to which this directly led, has done more for the mitigation
 of human  suffering than any other  discovery, with the exception,
 perhaps, of vaccination, for which the world is indebted to medical
 science in either ancient or modern times.
   The benefit derived from these newly discovered  agents is not
 confined to the hardier procedures of operative surgery.  They are
 now in hourly requisition in every quarter of the civilized world for
 suspending all sense of suffering during the severest throes of child-
 birth, for arresting convulsions, for relaxing spasms, for suspending
 volition and overcoming muscular resistance during the reduction
 of fractures and dislocations, for allaying restlessness, wakefulness,
 and morbid excitability; even for  assuaging the pangs of ap-
 proaching  dissolution, not  to speak of the  almost  innumerable
 minor  uses to  which they are applied, as well in the investigation
 as in the treatment of disease.
   In view  of these advantages from the use of anaesthetics, we feel
 that  Dr. Morton,  the  first   to  demonstrate their safety and
 efficiency, and to establish them in general practice, has conferred
 a boon upon humanity as imperishable as it is important,  and one
 of such a character as to  entitle him to rank among the benefactors
 of mankind.
   As members of the  medical profession in the city of New York,
 and as physicians and surgeons to the various hospitals and infirm-
 aries in thi.s city and its vicinity, we therefore  rejoice to learn that
 a movement has been commenced by our professional brethren
 and other gentlemen of Boston, to establish a national testimonial,
by voluntary subscriptions, for the benefit of Dr. Morton.   In this
 movement,  after full  deliberation and  consultation  among  our-
 selves, we are ready to participate in accordance with  the plan of
those who originated  it, which plan is set forth by the gentlemen
of Boston in the following terms :—
   We propose that a national subscription be  instituted, the avails
of which shall be paid into  the hands of Thomas  B.  Curtis and
Charles II. Mills, Esquires, as Trustees,—to be  held, appropri- 
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ated, and  invested upon such trusts, and for such uses,  for the
benefit of Dr. Morto.nt, as the Trustees may determine.
  Under governments more  arbitrary and restrictive than our
own, but  more capable  of meeting the  claims  of science, the
awards of  merit are not usually left, as with us, to the bounty of
private individuals.   Discoveries and improvements of infinitely
less  importance to  science or humanity, than that for which we are
indebted to Dr. Morton, are at the courts of Europe promptly met
by national honors anil emoluments.
  In our own country, it is true, the National  Government, after
carefully investigating Dr.  Morton's claims, has acknowledged the
benefit he  has conferred upon it, but has nevertheless failed, as yet,
to supply the recompense.
  With these remarks, we have the honor of recommending Dr.
Morton's claims for  remuneration to  the consideration of our
fellow-citizens, and of soliciting their subscriptions  in behalf of the
fund which it is proposed to raise for his benefit.
  What the Government  in  this respect has failed to do, it is to
be hoped, for the credit of the American name, and from the noble
individual examples already set,  that the discerning  and liberal
people of the United States will not leave entirely unaccomplished.


                 PHYSICIANS AND  SURGEONS.

     Of the New  Ybr/c Hospital  and Bloomingdale Asylum.
Thos. Cock, m.d., Consulting Physician.    Alfred C. Post, m.d., Cons'g Surgeon,
Jos. M. Smith, m.d., .^tending Physician.   Gurdon Buck, m.d., Attend. Surgeon.
JoHa\ II. Griscom, m.d.,    "           John Watson, m.d.,       "
Henry D. Bulkley, m.d.,   "           Tilvd. M. Halsted, m.d.,   "
Tnos. F. Cock, m.d.,       "           Tnos. M. M.vrkoe, m.d.,   "
Valentine Mott, m.d., Cons'g Surgeon.    Wm. H. Van Buren, m.d.,   "
Alex. II. Stevens,  m.d.,     "          Willard Parker, m.d.,   "
Richard K. Hoffman,  m.d.  "

                 PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

Of Bellevne Hospital, and of the other  Institutions under  the
      charge of the Board of  Governors of the Almshouse.
John W. Francis, m.d., Cons'g Physician.   Alex. II. Stevens, m.d., Con. Surgeon.
Isaac Wood, m.d.,         "           J*s. R. Wood, m.d., Attending Surgeon.
It. W. McCready, m.d., Atten. Physician.   Chas. D. Smith, m.d.,
John T. Metcalfe, m.d.,   "           Lewis A. Layre, m.d.,
Isaac K. Taylor, m.d.,     "           J. J. Crane, m.d.,
B. Fordyce Barker, m.d.,  "           W. Parker, m.d.,         "
Geo. T. Elliott, m.d.,      '•           Stephen Smith, m.d.,      "
Valentine Mott, m.d., Cons'g Surgeon. 
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               Nursery  Hospital,  BanJalFs Island.
            HENRY X. WHITTLESEY, m.d., Resident Physician.

               Quarantine Hosja'tal, Stat en Island.
       R. X. Thompson, m.d., Health Officer Port of New York.
       Theo. Watson, m.d., Assistant Physician Quarantine Hospital.


                   Blaclcweirs Island Hosptitals.
       (Penitentiary Hospital, Smallpox Hospital, and Almshouse.)
              WILLIAM H. SAXGER, m.d., Resident Physician.

                  PHYSICIANS  AND  SURGEONS.

                    New York lunatic Asylum.
                  M. II.  RAXXEY,  Resident  Physician.

                 Of the  State Emigrant Asylum.
J. M. Carnochan, m.d., Sur.-in-Chief.       Henry B. Fay, m.d., Phys-in-Chief.
T. C. Selden, m.d., Surgeon.              Francis Simrock, m.d., Physician.
II. Guleke, m.d.,     "                  G. Ford,  m.d.,            "

                       St.  Vincent's  Hospital.
Thos. E. Burtsell, m.d., At'g Physician.    Alex. B.  Mott, m.d., Attend. Surgeon.
James O'Rorke, m.d.,       "             Thos. C. Finnell, m.d.,     "
Wm. II. Van Buren, m.d., At'g Surgeon.

                         St. Luke's Hospital.
                  D. E. EIGIXBRODT, Resident Physician.

                          Jews' Hospital.
V. Mott, m.d., Consulting Surgeon.         J. Moses, m.d., Attending Surgeon.
W. Parker, m.d.,      "               C. R. Gilman, m.d., Attend. Physician.
T. M. Markoe, m.d., Attending Surgeon.     W. H. Maxwell, m.d.,    "
Alex. B. Mott, m.d.,       "

                    New York  Eye  Infirmary.
A. Dubois, m.d.,       Surgeon.          C. R. Aonew, m.d., Surgeon.
Gurdon Buck, m.d.,        "             F. J. Bumstead, m.d., Assist. Surgeon.
T. M. Halsted, m.d.,       "             J. H. Hinton, m.d.,        "

                  New York  Ophthalmic  Hospital.
Mark Stephenson, m.d., Surgeon.          John P. GARRisn, m.d., Surgeon.

                       Colored Home Hospital.

G. a\. Sabine, m.d., Consult'g Surgeon.       J. S. Thebaud, m.d.,  Consult. Surgeon.
W. Parker, m.d.,          "             J. D. Fitch, m.d., Resident Physician. 
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                          Women's Hospital.

                     J. MARION  SIMS, m.d.,  Surgeon.

                   Neio  York  Lying-in  Asylum.
T. F. Cock, m.d., Consulting Physician.     G. T. Elliott, m.d., Con. Physician.
J. T. Metcalfe, m.d.,      "

                    Nursery and Child's Hospital.

G. T. Elliott, m.d., Attending Physician.  Geo. A. Peters, m.d., Attending Phys.
H. C. Cox, m.d.,       "        "       F. U. Johnston, m.d.,      "      "

                         Demilt Dispensary.
Jno. 0. Bronson, m.d., House Physician.
Wm. B. Bibbins, m.d., Visiting Phys'n.
D. L. Conant, m.d., Attending Surgeon.
T. G. Thomas, m.d., Attending Phys'n.
Gouv. M. Smith, m.d.,  "      "
I. Cummings, m.d., Ass't Visit'g Phys.
W. R. Donaghe, m.d., Attending Surg.
Elisha Harris, m.d., Attending Phys.
Jno. A. Bartholf, m.d.,  "      "
New  York Academy  of Medicine.
    J.  F. Batchelder, m.d., President
John Watson, m.d., Vice-President.
W. H. Van Buren, m.d.,      "
S. Conant Foster, m.d.,      "
C. E. Isaacs, m.d.,           "
C. T. Heywood, m.d., Recording Sec'y.
S. T. Hubbard, m.d., Dom. Cor. Sec'y.
Jas. 0. Fond, m.d, Treasurer.
Samuel Rotten, m.d., Librarian.
W. W. Blakeman, m.d ,  Trustee.
Ed. L. Beadle, m.d.,        "
Benj. Ocden. m.d.,          "
F. U. Johnston, m.d.Assistant Secretary.
B. F. Barker, m.d.,  Resident Fellow.
Gurdon Buck, m.d.,
H. D. Bulkley, m.d.,
F. J. Bumstead, m.d.,
Thos. Cock, m.d.,
Thos. F. Cock, m.d,
J. J. Crane, m.d.,
Geo. T. Elliott, m.d.,
T. C. Finnell, m.d.,
J. W. Francis, m.d.,
J. P. Gaerish, m.d.,
C. R. Gilman, m.d.,
J. H. Griscom, m.d.,
T. M. Halsted, m.d,
E. Harris, m.d.,
J. H. Hinton, m.d.,
Isaac Wood, m.d., Resident Fellow.
J. R. Wood, m.d.,           "
Jas. Anderson, m.d.,        "
E. Acosta, m.d.,            "
E. H. Davis, m.d.,          "
A. K. Gardner, m.d., ^     "
Ed. Delafield, m.d.,       "
Joel Foster, m.d.,          "
J. C. Beales, m.d.,          "
R. W. Barry, m.d.,         "
H. W. Brown, m.d.,         "
J. C. Forrester, m.d.,      "
H. S. Downs, m.d.,          "
F. S. Edwards, md.,        "
F. Elliott, m.d.            "
R. Pennell, m.d.,           "
T. W. Richards, m.d.,       "
A. UNDERniLL, M.D.,         "
Jos. Wooster, m.d.,         "
J. W. S. GOULEY, M.D.,      "
E. H. Janes, m.d.,          "
C. Henschel, m.d.,         "
A. Gescheidt, m.d.,         "
A. N. GUNN, M.D.,
Wm. H. Maxwell, m.d.,      "
E. Hall, m.d.,
Jared Linsley, m.d.,
John McClelland, m.d.,     " 
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 E. Lee.Tonf..-.. m.d.,   Resident Fellow,   Wm. Minor, m.d.,     Resident Fellow,
 B. W. McCUEADY, M.D ,       "          Jos. M.VRTIN, M.D.,
 W. Parker, m.d.,            "          J. W. Ranney, m.d.,
 (j. A. Sabine, m.d.,          "          John Priestley, m.d.,
 L. A. Sayre, m.d.            "          Alex. H. Stevens, m.d.,
 J. M. Sims, m.d.,             "          W. C. Livingston, m.d.,
 C. D. Smith, m.d.,            "          Stephen Smith, m.d.,
 M. Smith, m.d.,              "          Gko. Lewis, m.d.,
 Mark Stephenson, m.d.,      "          Jas. D. Fitch, m.d.,
 J. E. Taylor, m.d.,          "          Charles A. Budd, m.d.,
 T. G. ThOaMAS, m.d.,          "          N. C. Hustkd, m.d.,          "
 W. H. Van Buren, m.d.,       "          Th's W. Horsfield, m.d.,    "


                     New York Medical College.
 Horace Green, m.d.,                   J. M. Carnochan, m.d., Prof, of Sur.
                President of Faculty.    H. G. Cox, m.d., Prof, of The. and Prac.
 E. H. Davis, m.d., Prof, of Mat. Med.      E. R. Peaselee, m.d.,  Prof, of Physiol.
 B. F. Barker, m.d., Prof, of Obstetrics.    Chas. A. Budd, m.d.,
 R. Ogden Doremus, m.d.,                             Lecturer on Obstetrics.
              Professor of Chemistry.

                  New  York Pathological Society.
 E. R. Peaselee, m.d., President.          W. B. Bibbins, m.d., Treasurer.
 E. Harris,  m.d., Vice-President.          T. C. Finnell, m.d., Curator.
 E. Lee Jones, m.d., Secretary.

                       Brooklyn City Hospital.
James Crane, m.d., Attending Phys.      Daniel E. Kissam, Attending Surg.
 H. S. Smito, m.d.       "      "        J. C. Hutchinson,     "        "
 George Cochran, m.d. "      "        Jos.  M. Minor, m.d.    '      "
 C E. Isaacs, m.d., Attending Surgeon.

                 College of Physicians and Surgeons.
             Thomas Cock, m.d., President.
             Ed.  Delafield, m.d., Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics.
             Willard Parker, m.d., Professor of Surgery.
             Joseph M. Smith, m.d., Professor of Materia Medica.
             C. R. Oilman, m.d., Professor of Obstetrics.

                     University  Medical College.
                Wm. H. Van Buren, m.d., Professor of Anatomy.
                Alfred C. Post, m.d., Professor of Surgery.
                J. T. Metcalfe, m.d., Professor of Practice. 
APPENDIX  B.
                THE  BOSTON  APPEAL.

                         To the Public.

   The power of etheric vapors to produce a safe insensibility to
pain during  surgical operations, and on  other occasions of great
physical suffering, is  one of the most  beneficent discoveries that
has been conferred upon the human race. It is generally conceded
that Dr. W. T. G. Morton, of Boston, was instrumental in pre-
senting this  fact to the world.  Nearly the whole of the Medical
Profession [see page 35 et seq.~] of this  city, in the midst of whom
the discovery was made, together with  other bodies of competent
persons,  who  have  investigated  its  origin, have, after  careful
scrutiny, concurred in assigning this merit to Dr. Morton,—and
public opinion has long since affirmed their verdict.
   It is not  necessary to enter in detail into the  circumstances
which have prevented Dr. Morton from receiving any pecuniary
benefit from this discovery.
   The fact is certain, that  Dr. Morton has been an instrument,
under Divine Providence, of introducing to the world one of the
most remarkable discoveries of this or any other  age, and that  he
has  received no  reward for it  but  the  consciousness of having
done so.
   Wo are sure that we interpret the feeling of  thousands, when
we say that a substantial national memorial should be presented
to Dr. Morton.
   How often has the poor sufferer risen from beneath the surgeon's •
knife,  with nerves  untouched by the  slightest  sensation of the
torture that would otherwise have been his! How often has the
mother passed in unconscious slumber, through "the perils of
childbirth," to wake to her new happiness, without one memory of
its agonies, and breathed, with the prayer of thanksgiving to God,
a, thought  of .him — to her,  perhaps, the unknown discoverer—
whose  happy conception, perseverance, and  courage, first estab-
lished the astonishing fact that the human frame  may suffer all the 
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conditions,  and  not one  of the  sensations of pain !   What has
already occurred throughout the whole world, since this discovery
was made ;  hi hospitals, in private chambers of the sick, on fields
of  battle, on the ocean,  and on  the land—wherever  humanity
undergoes  the "ills  that  flesh is heir to,"—is  to occur through
countless ages, while the race  is left upon earth!  And yet, year
rolls  after year,  and the  spontaneous gratitude that is felt and
uttered whenever  and  wherever  this great discovery  is used or
contemplated,  finds  no permanent voice, because no efforts are
made to concentrate and direct it to its object.
  We propose that such efforts be now made.   We think that the
people of the United States, acting individually, should do what
their government has neglected, or been able to do. National tes-
timonials, established by the voluntary contributions of individuals,
have been  adopted  in all countries, to  mark the public sense of
services to  the human family, especially when such services have
reflected honor and distinction upon the country where  they have
been performed.
  We propose that a national subscription be instituted, the avails
of  which shall be paid into the hands of Amos A. Lawrence and
John  Lowell, Esquires,  as Trustees,—to be  held, appropriated,
and invested upon such trusts, and for such uses, for the benefit of
Dr. Morton, as the Trustees may determine.
James Jackson, m.d.
Jacob Bigelow, m.d.
S. D. Townsend, m.d.
John Jeffries, m.d.
Edward Reynolds, m.d.
John Romans, m.d.
M. S. Perry, m.d.
0. W. Holmes, m.d.
John Ware, m.d.
George Hayward, m.d.
J. Mason Warren, m.d.
Henry J. Bigelow, m.d.
Charles G. Putnam, m.d.
Richard H. Dana, Jr., Esq.
Alexander H. Vinton, d.d.
S. K. Lothrop, D.D.
John B. Fitzpatrick,
     Bishop of Boston.
Willi « m H. Prescott, Historian.
N. Adams, d.d.
Hon. Rufus Choate.
Charles P. Curtis, Esq.
F. C. Loring, Esq.
Hon. G. S. Hillard.
William Deiion, Esq.
Benjamin Peirce,
     Professor Harvard University.
F. D. Huntington,  d.d.
Henry W. Longfellow,
     Professor Harvard University.
Ja£ed Sparks,
     President Harvard University.
R. B. Forbes, Esq.
P. W. Chandler, Esq.
Alex. H. Rice, Mayor of Boston.
Hon. Robert C. Winthrop. 
•
MEMORIAL
 MEMBERS OF  THE MASSACHUSETTS  MEDICAL  SOCIETY.

 To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the
    United States  in Congress assembled:

   The undersigned hereby testify to your honorable body, that in
 their opinion Dr. William T. G. Morton  first proved to the world
 that ether would produce insensibility to the pain of surgical opera-
 tions, and that it could be  used with safety.  In their opinion, his
 fellow-men owe  a  debt to  him  for  this knowledge.   Wherefore
 they respectfully ask  a recognition by  Congress of his services to
 his country and mankind : —

 John C  Warren, m.d., Senior Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital, and late
      President  American  Medical Society, and Emeritus Professor of Anatomy of
      Harvard University.
 George  Hayward, m.d., President Massachusetts Medical Society, and Surgeon
      Massachusetts General Hospital.
 J. Mason Warren, m.d., Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital.
 S. D. Townsend, m.d.,      "              "          "
 S. Parkman, m.d.,         "              "          "
 Henry G. Bigelow, m.d., Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of
      Surgery, Harvard University.
 Henry G. Clark, m.d., Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital, and  City Phy-
      sician.
 Jacob  Bigelow, m.d.,  Professor Materia Medica Harvard University, and President
     of the  American  Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Physician to  Massachu-
     setts General Hospital.
 Oliver W. Holmes, m.d., Professor of Anatomy, Harvard University.
 Henry I. Bowditch, m.d., Physician Massachusetts General Hospital.
 D. Humphreys Storer, m.d.,  "          "           "
 M. S. Pebry, m.d.,           "          "           "
 James Jackson,  m.d.,      i
 George C. Shattcck, m.d., I  Consulting Physicians and Surgeons Massachusetts
 John Jeffries, m.d.,                       General Hospital.
 Edward Reynolds, m.d.,  J
 Edward Reynolds, m.d.
 W. Hooper, m.d.          •  Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary.
 George A. Bethune, m.d.
John L. Fox, m.d., Surgeon United  States Navy, Chelsea Naval Hospital. 
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Members of  Massachusetts Medical  Society.
Walter Channing,
John   Ilomans,  President
  Suffolk District Medical
  Society.
Z. B. Adams,
John C. Hayden,
John Ware,
Ephraim Buck,
George Bartlett,
Jonas H. Lane,
Anson Hooker,
Henry Dyer,
Augustus A. Gould,
Charles Gordon,
Joseph S. Jones,
Samuel Kneeland, Jr.,
T. Fletcher Oakes,
George Hubbard,
Charles W. Moore,
Richard H. Salter,
Fvtche Edward  Oliver,
\Yvilliam J. Dale,
William Edward Coale,
James W. Stone,
B. W. Newell,
Francis A. Willard,
William Hawes,
Charles Mifflin,
J. Wippasne,
Abraham A. Watson,
Aaron P. Richardson,
Henry A. Ward,
William Bowen Morris,
James B. Gregorson,
William W. Morland,
M. C. Greene,
Horace Stacey,
Franklin F. Patch,
Samuel L. Abbott,
John H. Dix,
James Ayer,
Joseph J. Fales,
P. Wilbrand,
Ezra Bartlett,
S. F. Parcher,
James Hyndman,
Henrv S. Lee,
E. D; Cleveland,
John Stevens,
Ira W.  Tobie,
J. Everett Herrick,
N. C. Stevens,
Enock  C. Rolfe,
Henry Willard,
A. Alexander,
D. McGowan,
Thomas R. Owens,
Luther Clark,
Charles T. Hoffenvane,
Samuel Morrill,
Silas Durkee,
George  Stevens  Jones,
Jesse Chickering,
J. A. Tarbell,
George II. Lvmnn,
Henry W. Williams,
J. Randolph Lincoln,
George Derby,
Warren  J. Whitney,
Francis  Minot,
I>. D. Slade,
Wr. E. Townsend,
John B.  Alley,
George H. Gay,
Luther Parks, Jr.,
William G. Wheeler.
F. H. Gray,
James F. Harlow,
George Russell,
Charles  E. Ware,
E. W. Blake,
Edward  H. Clark,
samuel  Gregg,
E. D. Miller,
C. G. Putnam,
Charles  A. Phelps.
John Odin, Jr.,
Joseph Reynolds,
George Hay ward, Jr.,
Henry Osgood Stone,
G. Newton Thomson,
J. M. Phipps,
Abner Phelps,
Josiah Curtis,
E. D. G. Palmer,
Daniel V. Folts,
R. L. Hiucklev,
J. W. Hinckley,
M. B. Leonard,
P. E. Molloy,
Henry Bryant,
Charles  E. Buckingham,
J. W. Warren, Jr.,
D. D. Smith,
George Tower,
WiUiam Read,
J. F. W. Lane,
Const. B. O'Donnell, M. R.
  C. S. E.,
John S.  H. Fogg,
Edmund T. Eastman,
William S. Coffin,
John C.  Sharp,
Alexander S. Butler,
Benjamin  B. Appleton,
M. Mattson,
David Thayer,
J. C. Sanborn,
E. A. Kittredge.

      CHARLESTOWN.
E. E. Braun.
A. J. Bellows,
Benjamin Seabury,
George W. Otis, Jr.,
Charles  H. Allen,
\. C. Webber,
I. P. Alden,
W..W. Wellington,
H. L.  Chase,
Charles  F. Foster,
A. J. Cummings,
Thomas J. Stevens,
Hutchinson Germaine,
Alexander Poole.
James B. Forsyth,
John Toomy.

        CHEL8EA.
WQliam Ingalls, Physician
  and Surgeon  U. 8. Ma-
  rine. Hospital.
A. L. Peirson,
William Mack,
George Choate,
William Henry Prince,
J. G. Wood,
James Stone, Jr.,
E. B. Pierson,
George C. S. Choate,
George A. Perkins,
H. Wheatland,
Samuel Johnson,
Edward A. Holyoke.
Alfred Bavlies.
H. B. Hubbard,
Horace Bowen,
Ebenezer Dawes,
William Dickinson,
Daniel King,
George Leonard.

     NKWBURYPORT.

E. Cross,
S. M. Gale.
A. $>. Adams,
J.  T. Galloupe,
Daniel Perley,
D. A. Johnson,
E. Porter Eastman,
James M. Nye,
John Renton,
Nathaniel Ruggles,
Charles M. Weeks,
Edward Newhall.

       WORCESTER.
Henry Clarke,
Samuel Flagg,
George A. Bates,
Charles W.  Whitcomb,
Joseph Sargent,
Oramel Martin,
William Workman. 
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Members of Massachusetts Medical  Society—Continued.
Rufus Woodward,
Henry Sargent,
A. Goulet,
P. B. Mignoult,
Benjamin Heywood,
John E. Hathaway.

      SPRINGFIELD.
James M. Smith,
Edwin Seeger,
N. Adams,
A. S. Mc Clean,
Alfred Lambert,
C. C. Chaffee,
H. A. Hamilton,
Henry B. Vaille,
D. C. Perkins.

       PITTSFIELD.
     NEW  BEDFORD.
T. S. Mayhew,
Johnson  Clark,
John H. Jennings,
William A. Gordon,
Elijah Colby,
C. D. Sticknev,
John Howell Mackie,
Paul Spooner.

      FaILL river.
James W. Hartly,
P. A. Smith,
Jerome  Dwelly,
Foster Hooper,
E. T. Learned.
        LOWELL.
John 0. Green,
Henry Whiting,
J. P. Jewett,
J. D. Pillsbury,
Elisha Huntington,
John W. Graves,
Charles A. Sav  y,
Joel Spalding,
David  Wells,
Benjamin Skelon,
H. Pillsburv,
P. P. Campbell,
L. B. Morse,
Charles A. Davis,
Ployer G. Kittredge,
Daniel Holt,
Daniel Mowe,
J. W.  Scribner.
       LAWRENCE.

George W. Sanborn,
William D. Lamb,
David Dana,
J. H. Morse.

    SOUTH ANDOVER.
James  Howarth,
W. H. Kimball.

        DEDHAM.
Jeremy Stimson,
D. P. Wight,
H. F. Spear.

       fitchburg.

Thos. R. Boutelle,
Levi Pillsbury,
T. W.  Wadsworth,
W. M. Barrett,
Henry M. Linrad.

       PLYMOUTH.

James L. Hunt,
Winslow  Warren,
Benjamin Hubbard,
Timothy Gordon.
        HINGHAM.
Ezra. Stephenson,
Robert T. P. Fiske.
        QUINCY.

Ebenezer Woodward,
William G. Pattee,
W. Goddard.
         DANVERS.
  Andrew Nicholls,
  Joseph Osgood,
  David A. Grosvenor,
  George Osgood.

       MARBLEHEAD.
  James C. Briggs,
  Chandler Flagg,
  Daniel Gill.

        BEVERLY.
  W. C. Boyden,
  Charles Haddock,
  Ingalls Kittredge.

       GLOUCESTER.
  Isaac P. Smith,
  C. H. Hildreth,
  George W. Smith.

        ROCKPORT.

  Benjamin Haskell,
  Lemuel Gott,
  Oscar D. Abbott.

         NEWTON.
  Henry Bigelow,
  Cyrus K. Bartlet.

       FRAMINGHAM.

  Simon Whitney,
  Allston W. Whitney.

        MILFORD.

  Francis Leland,
J  Theodore 0. Cornish.
H. H. Childs, President of
  Berkshire  Medical Insti-
  tution.
N. S. Barnes,
0. S\ Root,
Frank A. Cady,
0. E. Brewster,
Nathaniel Foote,
Avery  Williams,
A. N. Allen, •
L. F. Humeston,
Willard Clough,
Clark F. Hall,
N. J. Wilson. 
APPENDIX  C.
                 HISTORICAL STATEMENT.

  The foregoing pages set forth in  outline the fact that there is  a
very general movement among the American people, inaugurated by
leading members of the profession in Boston, New York, and Phil-
adelphia, in behalf of one of the most praiseworthy objects which
can appeal to patrons of science or  the friends of humanity.  They
show that the noble work is at last undertaken, which for more
than twelve years has been neglected by Congress, to preserve the
shelter of a home for the family of a nation's benefactor, still living,
from the clamorous  creditors to whom it was pledged for debts in-
curred in making and promulgating a discovery which, though
leaving the discoverer poor, has made the whole world his debtor,
and to place their future life beyond the chances and vicissitudes
of fortune, by the purchase of an annuity.
  The discovery made by Dr. Wm. T.  G. Morton, of Boston, of
the anaesthetic properties of sulphuric  ether, and  the  safety, cer-
tainty, and reliability of its effects  in making the severest  surgical
operations, childbirth, and other scenes  and conditions of  physical
suffering, perfectly painless,  is a discovery already ranked by the
medical profession above that of vaccination by Jenner, to whom
the English Parliament voted large sums of money, and for whom
national testimonials were raised and medals struck in other na-
tions;  a  discovery whose benefits are not confined to the subjuga-
tion of pain, but which are  continually unfolding  in new depart-
ments of the healing art.
  This national movement was with great propriety inaugurated
in Boston, the city where the discoverer lived and practised his pro-
fession, and where the first successful  painless surgical operation
was performed.  An organization to raise a  national  testimonial
fund in his behalf, with trustees residing in Boston, and treasurers
in the principal cities  in the United States, is already established.
Though it has hardly passed beyond its  inchoate period, it has en-
listed the energetic  co-operation of some of the most eminent and 
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patriotic persons  in  the Union.  All will learn with surprise that
twro hundred thousand dollars will not more than reimburse the
discoverer  of this anaesthetic agent for his outlays in making ex-
periments which  led to the discovery, in  establishing its value, in
compelling its acceptance by the wTorld in spite of incredulity and
indifference, in establishing the priority of his claims over post facto
discoverers, and in applications to Congress to induce them to re-
imburse him for his actual expenditures.*
  A handsome beginning for the collection of this sum has already
been  made,  though much remains to be  done.  The  fund has
received, as was most fitting, from the medical institutions of Bos-
ton and vicinity, and from  eminent and wealthy persons residing
in that  seat of  literature  and  science, munificent subscriptions.
New York, too, represented in  the same way by her medical in-
stitutions and her wealthy citizens, has shown an equal prompti-
tude  in discharging this debt of honor, too long owing to a  nation's
benefactor.
   Such is a brief and general statement of the objects to be accom-
plished, and the present state of the enterprise.
   It is not necessary to argue at any great length for the character
or success of this undertaking.  That would be almost an insult
to the long list of men  distinguished in all the professions, and
honorably known in commerce or  in the more secluded walks of
private life, who now appeal to the public at large to do justice  in
this matter.  To doubt its success, would be to challenge  the sin-
cerity of the great bulk of the medical profession  in Massachusetts,
New York, and Philadelphia, who  ask subscriptions to this fund;
would be to say that the  world has gone back in the present cen-
tury, and that the justice given  to Jenner, who  conquered small-
pox in  the last century, would be  denied to Morton, who may be
said to have conquered pain in this.
   It  may not be out of place, however, to recall here the universal
thrill of joy that was felt when it was first announced to the world
how  the subtle spirit  of ether would  almost everywhere subdue
pain, in the severest surgical operations, in the pangs of parturition,
in the numberless cases at the hospitals, on  battle-fields in  time  of
war,  in cottages  "in piping times of peace," removing, as has been
well  said, " half the primal  curse*" and more than justifying the
unstinted praise of the foregoing appeal of the medical profession
in New York, which says : —

  * Vide p. 449, " Trials  of a Public Benefactor," by N. P.  Rice.  J. B. Lippincott
& Co., Philadelphia. 
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  " In view of these advantages from the use of amesthetics, we
feel that Dr. Morton — the  first to demonstrate their safety and
efficiency, and to establish them in general practice — has conferred
a. boon  upon humanity as unperishable as it is important, and <>nc
of such  a character as to entitle him  to  rank among the benefac-
tors of  mankind."
   Neither is this the place or time to set forth as they deserve the
labors and the sufferings which Dr. Morton has undergone in the
twelve  years which have succeeded his great discovery. The story
of his wrongs, his patience, his perseverance,  his unconquerable
energy, his poverty, his enthusiasm, his success in achieving an im-
perishable honor, and his failure in  obtaining the slightest emolu-
ment for an invaluable discovery, which the world now freely and
daily uses, has more than the interest of a romance.*  They con-
stitute  a record which, except  it is  ended  by the success of the
 movement whose inauguration has been set forth in the foregoing
 pages,  will stand a burning  disgrace and scandal to the profession
 and the world which have appropriated and used a discovery, and
 left the discoverer to  starve.   Shall  it be  said that, through his
 connection with  so great a benefaction to the human  race, Dr.
 Morton is to be left unable to preserve to his children the  paternal
 acres pledged in securing it, unable  to  educate his children, with-
 out any adequate means of  support, and, worse than all, unable  to
 secure for himself that quiet mode of life demanded by the ruined
 health consequent upon his hazardous experiments, and upon living
 in an atmosphere of ether for so many months, and upon the labors
 and sufferings which he  underwent  in  detecting and establishing
 the  anaesthetic properties of the sulphuric ether ?  These apj)el-
 lants, therefore, now appeal  directly to  the  heart  of the country,
 which  rarely fails to disprove the heartless  maxim  that " republics
 are ungrateful," and which will never suffer a  state of things  so
 discreditable as that which we have briefly depicted, long to last.
   It is true that this mode of raising funds to consummate a simple
 act of justice is laborious and tedious.  The present success of the
movement shows, however, that that  is  the only great objection,
and that individuals and institutions, and the country at large, are
ready and anxious to discharge their obligations.  The " ether con-
troversy " has had the one good.effect of waking up the public to
the existence of those  obligations.   The sum required to accom-
plish the reimbursement and effect the designs of the appellants,
                  * See " Trials of a Public Benefactor." 
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is, as we have said, a large one, and its  collection by individual
contributions, over an extent of country so vast as ours, is one of
time; but  it will derive an  additional  value as  coming  directly
from the people, and the zeal and energy with which it has been
entered upon by the profession in this city and elsewhere is  the
best augury of success.  May it soon be impossible for one of  the
greatest benefactors of the human race who has appeared in this
century to say, " It were better for me, infinitely better for me and
my wife and children, better for me and them in all respects, if I
had buried the secret  of the victory over pain  in my breast for-
ever, and suffered centuries to elapse  before  it came forth to  the
knowledge of the world by some other hand, than to do as I did,
— hasten to make it known by all forms and  modes of speech, and
at every risk of health, property, and even life."

                [From the American Cyclopaedia, Vol. XI.]
   MORTON, William Thomas Green, M. D., an American den-
tist, one of the claimants of  the discovery of anaesthetics, born in
Charlton, Mass., Aug.  9, 1819.  His youth was  passed  upon his
father's farm. Going to Boston at the age  of 17, he spent some
months in a large publishing house, and from this  time to his ma-
jority, he  alternated between  the counter and the  school-room.
With no taste and little talent for trade, his mercantile career was
short and disastrous.  In  1840  he commenced the study of den-
tistry  in  Baltimore, and  eighteen  months afterward established
himself as a dentist in Boston.   Among other improvements intro-
duced by him was a new kind of solder,  by which false teeth are
fastened to  gold plates, preventing galvanic action.   In order to
render  his work complete, it was desirable that the roots of old
teeth should be removed; as this was a tedious  and very painful
operation,  few would  submit to it,  and  there seemed but little
prospect of the success of the invention unless he could devise
means to lessen the pain.   He  tried stimulants, even  to intoxica-
tion, opium,  and magnetism, but in vain; still, the idea possessed
his mind that there must be  something to produce  the desired
effect, and  he gave himself up seriously to its realization.   His lim-
ited amount of medical knowledge interfering with the prosecution
of his investigations, he entered his name as a medical student in
Boston in 1844.  About this time the idea was suggested to him
in a lecture at the college that sulphuric ether might be used to 
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alleviate pain in his operations; he read such  books on chemistry
as he could procure, and experimented on animals, but as yet with
little success.  During his attendance at the Medical College and
hospital he was obliged to devote all his spare time to his operat-
ing rooms and dental laboratory, where he displayed great inge-
nuity in the mechanical details of his profession, and especially in
the manufacture of artificial teeth, which he  prosecuted successfully
on a large scale.  From books and from lectures  he learned that
sulphuric ether could be inhaled in small quantities  with some dis-
comfort, but that in large amount it was dangerous.   After exper-
iments on himself, and satisfied of its safety, be administered it  to
a man on Sept. 30, 1846, producing  unconsciousness, during  which
a firmly rooted  bicuspid tooth was painlessly extracted.   After
numerous other successful  experiments, he  communicated their
result  to Dr. J. C. Warren, and at his  request  administered the
ether, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, to a man from whose
jaw was removed a vascular tumor  on Oct. IG, 1846, the patient
remaining unconscious during the operation.  From this dates the
introduction into general  surgery  of the  discovery of ethereal
anaesthesia.  Like all other great discoveries, however, it met with
the bitterest professional opposition ; the jealousy of dentists, the
fears of physicians,  and the scruples  of theologians  were  in  many
cases arrayed against it, and various  persons claimed to have sug-
gested it.  In order to protect himself against such opposition, to
secure a fair compensation for his expenditure  of time and money,
and to keep his discovery within the hands of competent persons,
Dr. Morton obtained for it a patent, under  the name of "letheon,"
in Nov. 1846,  in the United States, and in the following month  in
England, offering, however, free rights to all charitable institutions
in all parts of the country.   Notwithstanding his generous  offers,
government appropriated his discovery to its use without compen-
sation.   Upon their first examination of the testimony, some  of the
Paris academicians at first recognized Dr. Jackson as the discov-
erer ; but the  committee of the academy awarded  the Monthyon
prize of  5,000  francs to be equally divided  between him and Dr.
Morton.  The latter  declined to receive  this joint award, pro-
tested against the decision of the  academy, and in  1852 received
the large gold medal, the Monthyon prize in medicine and surgery.
He underwent an amount of persecution  almost unparalleled  in
the annals of personal enmity, in private and before Congress, his 
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business was broken up, and his very house attached by the sheriff
for debts ; but his indomitable will and the encouragement of firm
and powerful friemls  enabled him ever to maintain his claims to
the discovery.  Relying upon the impartiality and generosity of
Congress for remuneration of his labors, he had presented his first
memorial in Dec. 1846, upon which the appointed  committee did
not report.  Strengthened by the testimonial inaugurated by the
trustees  of the Massachusetts General  Hospital  in 1848,  which
conceded to him  the  discovery of the  power and  safety of ether
in producing anaesthesia, he made a second application to Congress
in January, 1849; a committee, composed entirely of physicians,
heard the evidence  on  both  sides, and reported that he was enti-
tled to the merit of the discovery; but on  account of the press
of business towards the close of the session, and on the eve of a
change in the administration, they deemed it unadvisable to recom-
mend any pecuniary remuneration.  Returning from Washington,
lie made a brief stay at Baltimore, where he received the regular
title of M. D. from Washington  University.  In December, 1851,
he made a third and last appeal to Congress, and his memorial was
referred to a select committee; the report of the majority, after a
most elaborate  investigation,  awarded the honor of the discovery
to Dr. Morton,  and in April, 1852, the majority reported a bill ap-
propriating $100,000 as a national testimonial for his discovery, on
the condition that he should surrender his patent  to the Govern-
ment.  This bill,  on account  of the excitement attending the then
approaching presidential  election, was not acted upon, though
warmly approved by  several members of the Cabinet, and  urged
by members of Congress ; having at last been  brought before the
Senate, as an  amendment to the army appropriat'on bill, it was
adopted.  In 1853, an amendment to  the appropriation bill was
offered, granting $100,000 to the discoverer of practical anaesthe-
sia ;  after a warm debate, it passed the Senate, 26 to 23, but failed
in the House.  In 1854, a similar bill was presented  by Mr. Everett,
which passed the Senate by  24 to 13, but was lost in the House.
Thus.ended a  struggle of eight years spent in  vindicating his
claims.  In 1854 Dr. Morton  attempted to obtain from the  execu-
tive  a  recognition of the validity of his patent, supported  by the
recommendation of 150 members of Congress that the right  to use
his discovery be purchased for the public- service, or that the Gov-
ernment respect its own patent, and discontinue  its  use.  After 
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two years' delay, the President informed him that whenever it was
decided in the courts that the Government had violated his patent,
it would pay.   At this defeat his creditors became importunate,
and reduced him and his family to utter poverty; but in the win-
ter of 1856-7 a plan for a national testimonial was instituted in
Boston, encouraged by many of the principal physicians  and mer-
chants of that  city.  In  their appeal they give to him the credit
of presenting to the world the fact that a safe insensibility can be
produced by etheric vapors in the following words: " Nearly the
whole of the medical profession  of this city, in the midst of whom
the discovery was made, together with other bodies of competent
persons who have investigated its  origin, have, after  careful  scru-
tiny, concurred  in assigning this merit to Dr. Morton, and public
opinion has long since  affirmed  their verdict."   In 1858 a similar
appeal was made in New York, signed by the  principal  medical
men of that city, from which the following is an extract: " For this
discovery the world is indebted to Dr. William T. G. Morton, of
Boston.  Whatever may have been the steps preliminary to this
remarkable discovery, Dr. Morton's claim  to it  is  established be-
yond all controversy, and his merit in this respect, with those who
have taken the  trouble to inform themselves on the subject, can be
no longer a question of dispute."  In I860 the  medical profession
of Philadelphia signed a testimonial of the same character, which
says: " We believe the practical originator of anaesthetic inhalation
to  be Dr. William T. G. Morton, of Boston, Mass.  We  are  con-
vinced that he is the one who first resorted to ethereal inhalation
for the purpose of producing insensibility to pain in a patient while
undergoing  a  surgical operation, and that he is the one who first
succeeded in effecting  this result.  He was, indisputably, the first
to  urge the anaesthetic  properties of the vapor  of ether upon the
attention of the medical profession, and thus succeeded in estab-
lishing the practice of anaesthetic inhalation."  In 1858, to save his
home from the  sheriff's sale for debt, he instituted a suit 'against a
marine hospital surgeon for infringing his  patent, as suggested  by
the President, which was decided  in his favor in the U. S. Circuit
Court. — See "  Trials of a Public Benefactor,"  by Dr. Nathan P.
Rice, (New York, 1859.) 
APPENDIX   D.
PROCEEDINGS  OF  HOSPITALS.
              MASSACHUSETTS  GENERAL HOSPITAL.
   The undersigned, to whom a proposition of the Trustees of this
 Hospital should contribute a fund to be established for the benefit
 of Dr. Morton, was referred, report: —
   That Dr. Morton is known to have been chiefly instrumental in
 conferring a great good upon his race ;
   That his agency in a discovery which has already relieved mul-
 titudes from suffering,  has yielded to him no pecuniary compen-
 sation for its acknowledged benefits, but has, on the contrary, been
 attended by many sacrifices;
   That his only rewards  have been the consciousness of a great
 service rendered, and a title to fame;
   That the government of the country has omitted to provide a
 proper reward;
   That justice  entitles him to remuneration, and that the only
 mode in  which it seems to be probable that the means  of doing
 that justice can  be  furnished is through voluntary contributions
 from the philanthropic, in some such form as is now suggested.
   Therefore,  your Committee think that the object is proper, and
 that its early attainment is  to be desired; so that the only question
 is whether the  trustees may properly contribute of the  funds of
 this institution for its promotion.
   No ordinary circumstance would justify the trustees, should they
 apply any portion of the funds under their control to any object
 other than the direct relief  of the sick under their care.
   But the relations  between  Dr. Morton and this  Hospital, in
 regard to the great discovery which prompts the proposed memor-
 ial, are peculiar.
   The first important surgical operation to which that discovery
was applied, was performed within its walls, at his instance.
   At a time  when he  supposed that his agency in it  would be
pecuniarily rewarded by those who should derive benefits from it, 
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he conferred upon this Hospital the right to profit by it in all cases
without any charge.
  We have been and shall continue to be benefited by it, to an
extent which  no reasonable amount of money could compensate
for.
  Dr. Morton  and his friends think that the refusal of the trustees
of the Massachusetts General Hospital to subscribe to the contem-
plated fund would prevent its foundation.  In view of all the cir-
cumstances, your Committee think that apprehension well founded.
  When individuals have made bequests, or rendered  remarkable
services  to the  institution, the trustees have deemed it proper to
expend such  sums as may have  been required to procure appro-
priate memorials of them, to be preserved within the walls of the
Hospital; and your Committee think that the propriety of a sub-
scription toward the fund  which it is now proposed to establish for
the benefit of  Dr. Morton, would  rest safely on the grounds which
have been found sufficient in such cases.
  They therefore recommend that the subjoined vote be passed.
J. Thomas  Stevenson,)
                        y  Committee.
                        John Lowell,
  Boston, Feb. 22, 1857.
   Voted, that the Chairman of this Board  be requested to sub-
scribe, on behalf of the Massachusetts General Hospital, one thou-
sand  dollars toward the fund which it is proposed to establish for
the benefit  of Dr. W. T. G. Morton, as a memorial  of the great
service which that gentleman has  rendered  to science and  to
humanity, in connection with the discovery of the uses of ether.
  Trn<tics — Henry B. Roger-;, John P. Bigelow, James B. Bradlee, William S.
Bullard, William J. Dale, William W. Grccnough, Thomas Lamb, John Lowell,
Robert M, Mason, Charles H. Mills, J. Thomas Stevenson, Edward Wigglcsworth,
           MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND  EAR INFIRMARY.
   Voted, that the Secretary of this Board be authorized to sub-
scribe, on behalf of the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear
Infirmary, ttco hundred dollars toward the fund to be raised for the
benefit of Dr. W. T. G. Morton, as a  recognition of the  greatest
discovery of modern times, and an acknowledgment of the great
service which that gentleman has rendered to science and human-
ity by the discovery of the uses of ether.
  Trustees—3. II. Walcott, J. W. Edmands, Ilenry  Rice, Dr. E. Reynolds, G. II.
Shaw,  C. II. Mills  R. W. Hooper, Moses Grant, James Lawrence, Dr.  S. D.
Townsend, J. A. Blanchard.
                               Theodoee Frothingham, Secretary. 
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                         NEW YORK HOSPITAL.
"George T. Trimble, Esq.,
  President of the Board of Governors of the yew York Hospital.
  Sir:  The  members  of the medical  profession of  New York have made an
appeal in behalf of Dr. Wm. T. G. Morton, of Boston, who was the first to dis-
cover and demonstrate  by experiment the power of sulphuric ether to render the
human economy insensible to pain under surgical operations.
  " The object of this appeal is to raise, by voluntary contributions, a fund, as a
national testimonial for his benefit, such as shall be a worthy  acknowledgment of
the priceless value of a discovery which has already done and is constantly doing
so much to diminish human suffering.
  " Boston, the scene of Dr. Morton's labors, has taken the initiation in this effort,
and has made a noble beginning.
  " It is believed that the  action of the New York Hospital in reference to this
appeal, will exert an important influence on other kindred institutions in this city
and  elsewhere, and it is therefore earnestly hoped that the object will be regarded
with favor by the Board of Governors.  Nowhere in our whole land are the benefits
of this discovery more constantly witnessed than in the New  York Hospital, and
there seems to be special propriety in  such an institution acting a conspicuous part
in acknowledging our  common indebtedness to the discoverer of such a boon to
suffering humanity.
  " Having been delegated to  present this object to your Board, I beg leave, Mr.
President, through you, to submit this communication with the  accompanying
appeal, to that honorable body for consideration at their  next meeting.
     " I have the honor to remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
                                                 "Gurdon Buck, m.d.
  "New York, July  3, 1853."

   The  subject being thus  fairly laid before  the  custodians of the

institutions of New York, the Society of the New York Hospital,

a close corporation, governed by the gentlemen named in the note

appended,* immediately  vofed that their President,  Hon. George

T. Trimble, subscribe five hundred dollars to the proposed fund.


  COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION,  OF  THE STATE  OF NEW YOKE.

   The Commissioners of Emigration,  composed of the gentlemen

named in the annexed note,f passed the following resolution : —

   '■'■Resolved,  that in view of the great benefits derived by the In-

stitutions and patients under the charge  of  the  Commissioners of

Emigration, by the use of sulphuric ether, the sum of two hundred

and fifty dollars to be donated to Dr.  Wm. T. G. Morton, the dis-

coverer  thereof,  as a  consideration of the feeling of  the Board,

with  an  expression of regret that the present state of the  funds

under their charge  would not permit the Commissioners to show a

more substantial appreciation of the great importance Qf the dis-

covery."'

  •George T. Trimble, Najah Taylor. Gulian C. Verplanck, James F. De Peyster, John A.
Stevens. James I. Jones,  Stacy B. Collins, George F Hussey, Edwin D. Morgan, David
C'oldeu Murray, Robert Lenox Kennedy, John David Wolfe, George F. Jones. Joseph
Walker, Thomas Hall Faile, Thomas B. Stillmaii, James N. Cobb, George T. Olyphant,
John C. Green, David Clarkson, Abram S. Hewitt,  Frederick A.  Conkling, Nathaniel P.
Bailey. Otis D. Swan, Henry L. Pierson, James W. Beekman.
  t Gulian C. Verplanck, Prest.; E. Crabtree, Vice-Prest.; B. Casserly, Sec'y; F. D. Mor-
 fan, Wilson G. Hunt, Elijah F. Purdy, John P. Camming, Cyrus Curtis, Mayor of New
  ork, Mayor of Brooklyn, President of the German Society, President of the Irish Emi-
grant Society. 
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                     BELI.F.Vl'K  HOSPITAL.
   The Governors of the Almshouse referred  the  subject to the
 Committee  on Bellevue Hospital to report.  While  considering
 the subject, the Committee received from Stephen Smith, m.d., Sec-
 retary,  the  following  resolution,  unanimously  adopted by the
 Medical Board of Bellevue Hospital: —
   Resolvt d, that the Medical Board of Bellevue Hospital  cheer-
 fully  express  their conviction  that to  the zeal, perseverance, and
 skill of Dr. Wm. T. Green Morton, of Boston, in using sulphuric
 ether to render persons insensible to pain, the world  is indebted
 for the present extended and beneficial use of anaesthetic agents
 in the practice of medicine and surgery ;  and they are convinced
 that but for his energy, courage, and success, there is no reason to
 believe that mankind would yet have received that boon from any
 of the gentlemen whose names  have been prominently connected
 with this subject.
                           John W.  Francis, m.d.,
                                  President Medical Board.
   Stephen  Smith, m.d.,  Secretary.
  Referred to  Committee on Bellevue Hospital.
  On the fourth of August, the Committee to whom the subject
 was referred, reported in favor of appropriating the  sum of $1,500.
  On September 14, the following preamble and resolution, appro-
 priating fifteen hundred dollars, was adopted : —
  Resolved,  that this Board view with high appreciation the initi-
 atory steps taken by the Medical Faculty of the cities of Boston
and New York to acknowledge, in a substantial manner,  the  dis-
covery and appliances of sulphuric ether by Dr. Wm. T. G. Morton,
and believing  the same to be, as expressed and set forth  in  their
testimonials, the greatest  benefit of fhe present age rendered to
science and  humanity,  deem  it our. duty, in consideration thereof,
 and of the many uses to which the same has been applied in the
institutions under our charge, to unqualifiedly indorse the same.
  And be it further Resolved,  that  the sum of fifteen hundred
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated as  compensation
for the use of sulphuric ether in the hospital under our charge, and
the same be taken from the  unexpended appropriation of Belle-
vue Hospital.
  The President of the Board of Ten  Governors immediately
 made the subscription to the proposed fund. 
APPENDIX  E.
                      CORRESPONDENCE.

  During the last summer, the Governor of Massachusetts, N. P.
Banks, late Speaker of the House of Representatives, wrote to his
Excellency the Governor of New York, that " A national subscrip-
tion, intended as an acknowledgment of his  [Dr. Morton's] great
public service in the discovery, and introduction to common use,
of this important power [sulphuric ether], has been commenced
here, under the auspices of gentlemen of the highest professional
standing, who were themselves witnesses of the successive steps
through wrhich this discovery was made.  They are men whose
names alone are a guarantee  that their  statements may be relied
upon,  and  no words  of mine can  aid in  giving their opinion
strength.   In addition to that of merchants and professional men
of the first eminence,  you will find in the publication made by the
trustees of the fund to be raised, a petition to the President, signed
by a majority of the members of the thirty-third Congress, which
is, I think, to be regarded as an evidence of the very general esti-
mate  which was made of the claims  of Dr.  Morton  upon  the
government and the public.
   " The subscription has  been liberally commenced in Boston, but
it is thought that other cities that have been benefited by the dis-
covery should participate in  the  recognition of the merits of the
discoverer, and in making him appropriate  honors.  I hope that
other cities may imitate the example of Boston  in this respect, and
contribute something  to aid, and, I  may say, relieve one who is
certainly deserving  of great  credit, and who has as yet received
no advantage from his discovery."
   Dr. James Jackson wrote to George Ripley, one  of the  editors
of the American  Cyclopedia: "To him [Dr. Morton] the world
owes at least the introduction for useful  purposes  of sulphuric
ether, by employment  of which by inhalation, he proved that in- 
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sensibility might be produced in a human subject with safety, and
be maintained during powerful surgical operations. It is now more
than eleven years  since he made this discovery known.  aH  the
present  day the  benefit of it is  known  throughout the civilized
portion of the world.  Every day, the persons who use the article
must be counted by thousands.  If the knowledge of it could be
lost millions and millions of dollars  could be raised for the recov-
ery of it.  Every man is  liable  to the misfortunes  which would
make the use of it invaluable to him.
  "Is not something due to the gentleman who introduced the use
of ether for the use of the present and  all  future generations of
men ?  Shall it bo recorded in  history, that he lived  on a very
small income, while millions were blessing his discovery ?  Should
he not be repaid in some  substantial manner?   As I  understand
the matter,  his business has been destroyed, strange to say, and
he  needs  aid.  May I ask you to make his case known in New
York, in the hope that he may receive the evidence of such grati-
tude as is due to him ? "

  Dr. Jacob Bigelow, President of the Academy of Arts and
Sciences, wrote to Dr. Parker, that " I  hope the community who
are daily deriving the benefit of his  [Dr.  Morton's] inestimable
discovery, will not be  insensible to the debt they owe him.  He is
the only man without whom the world would  at this day have
wanted the blessing of anaesthetic inhalation."

  Dr. O. W. Holmes wrote to Willard  Parker, M. D.: " It gives
me great pleasure to add  my name to that  of my friends, who
have  recommended the claims of Dr. W. T. G. Morton to your
favorable notice.
  " A surgeon in great business, like yourself, must know well what
we owe to the discoverer of the use of ether in surgery.  The part
Dr. Morton took in that  is matter of history, and  I cannot  but
think you will agree with us in believing that but for  his happy
audacity we should have waited an indefinite period for the  dis-
covery.
   " I write this time, therefore, to request your kind consideration
of the subject that will be presented to your notice, not professing
to have any personal claim upon your valuable time, but consider-
ing that your position entitles you to the honor of being amon«
the foremost in every movement involving the interest of science
and humanity." 
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  Dr. John Jeffries, wrote to Willard Parker, M.D.: "Of the jus-
tice to his  [Dr. Morton's] claim, as the person by whom this great
benefaction was  conferred  on  the medical  profession, and upon
mankind, I entertain no doubt; and consequently of the weight of
obligations which physicians and  societies at large are under to
him for this benefit.  A public benefaction has been set on foot  for
Dr. Morton, who  is himself poor, and made so, in some measure, in
consequence of his agency in providing a blessing for mankind.  It
has my full approbation and best wishes for its  success.  I would
also express my confidence in the plan and details by which it was
carried out, arising from  the high character for intelligence and
integrity of gentlemen under whose auspices it is to be conducted.
Whatever  you may please to do to aid, will be on the side of jus-
tice and humanity."                i

  Dr. S. D. Townsend, one of the surgeons of Massachusetts Gen-
eral  Hospital, wrote to Willard Parker, m.d.: "Having been con-
versant with the use of ether from the first day of its introduction,
I have always given to Dr. Morton the credit of being the author
of its extensive employment into  our profession.   The object  of
this movement is  to obtain subscriptions to a fund, to be placed in
the hands of trustees, for his [Dr. Morton's] benefit, which is to  be
raised  from different hospitals in  the country, that have  been so
greatly benefited  by its use.  Dr. Morton's pecuniary circumstances
have been greatly reduced  by the exclusive attentions he has paid
to this object, having entirely broken up the business which he was
extensively engaged in; and he needs the aid  of all professional
men, who have been so greatly benefited by this discovery.  I am
sure  I  can  rely upon you to give it all the assistance which your
prominent  situation can afford him."

  Nathaniel I. Bowditch, Esq., in  a  letter to Amos A. Lawrence
and John Lowell, Trustees  of the Morton Fund, says:  " Circum-
stances, as you are aware, made me originally take great interest in
the ether discovery.  In the Hospital Report and a pamphlet  in
vindication of it,  I have expressed, as forcibly as in my power, my
conviction  that it is to the  boldness, energy, and perseverance  of
Dr. Morton that  the world  owes the demonstration of this great
truth of science.   I have never seen the slightest  reason for doubt-
ing the accuracy of the conclusion at which I  first arrived.   It 
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happens that in my own person I have already had  occasion to bo
especially thankful for this blessing.  Ether has been administered
to me no less than seven times, and on each occasion has saved me
from great  suffering.   I consider Dr. Morton, indeed, to be one of
my permanent attendant physicians, and  one the value of whose
prescription cannot be estimated in money, or expressed in words.
I have therefore cheerfully subscribed $500 on the book which you
sent me."

  Thomas  B. Curtis,  Esq., of Boston, in a letter to William E.
Bowen, Esq., of Philadelphia:  "Dr. Morton  first made  known
to the world the blessed effects of ether in doing away with pain.
Instead of riches and honor, he has reaped nothing from his great
discovery.  Our Government  has  cheated him, but they have not
deprived him of the  support of  the  most eminent  surgeons in
America, and the sympathy of many of our best citizens."

  Dr. Wm. II. Van Buren, of the New York Hospital, in a letter
to Prof. Neill, of Philadelphia: " Here,  there was  no dissenting
voice in the right  quarter, that is, among the profession, — and I
think on the broad ground of humanity, Dr. Morton has a right to
our support.  His misfortunes entitle him to our regard  above all
other considerations."

  Dr. Fordyce Barker, of the Bellevue Hospital, New York, in  a
letter to Dr. Edward Hartshorne, of Philadelphia: " The profession
in this city and in Boston have with great unanimity  made an
effort  to induce the  people  to  bestow  upon Dr. Morton some
reward  proportioned  to the value of  his  discovery, and  it is
hoped  that our brethren in Philadelphia will join  heartily in the
endeavor."

  Dr. George T. Eliot, of the Bellevue Hospital, New York, in a
letter to Dr. Biddle, of Philadelphia: " I  sincerely think that Dr.
Morton ought to be placed above the necessity for labor during his
life, and that it is a reproach to the United States that the Govern-
ment  did not  behave differently.  The feeling of  the profession
here is in favor of the testimonial in his behalf."

  Dr. Batcheldor, President of the  Academy  of Medicine, New
York, in a letter to Prof. Meigs, of Philadelphia:  "Dr. Wm. T. G.
Morton,  the discoverer of Anaesthesia,  now  so universally em- 
53
ployed in the  alleviation of human  suffering, in perfecting his
discovery and in introducing it to the  world, has made great sacri-
fices, and it is no more than just that he should reap some reward,
small though it may be, in comparison to the vast benefits which
he has conferred upon suffering humanity.  The appeal to the jus-
tice and  liberality of our fellow-citizens has been gladly seconded
by the profession in this city, and I have no doubt that such will
be the case in your city."

  Dr. John H.  Griscom, of the  New  York Hospital, in a letter to
Prof. George B. Wood, of Philadelphia: " The medical profession
of Boston and in New York have taken great interest in the effort
now in progress to  obtain from the people a testimonial of a sub-
stantial character in favor of Dr. Morton, whose sacrifices, means,
time, and health  in his devotion to  the  perfecting  of this most
extraordinary discovery, render some pecuniary  return essential.
We regard this as a truly national matter, to which the profession
of the whole country should lend their aid."

  Dr. Isaac Wood, of the Bellevue Hospital, New York, in a let-
ter to Prof. George B. Wood, of Philadelphia: "At a meeting of
our Medical Board, held last evening at my house, a resolution
was unanimously  passed, to recommend the  testimonial  to Dr.
Morton to the  favorable notice of the Board of ten Governors of
the Bellevue Hospital."

   Prof. Valentine Mott, of New York, in a letter to Prof. Pan-
coast, of Philadelphia:  " The Profession here generally award to
Dr. Morton  the  honor of this  great discovery.  We have been
doing, for the Testimonial to him, a little in this city."

   Dr. John W. Francis, of New York, in  a letter to Prof. Samuel
Jackson, of Philadelphia: " Something, our entire  Faculty have
determined, must be done for Dr. Morton as a great benefactor to
humanity.   In New York we are not idle.  Our Bellevue Hos-
pital, I believe, will make a liberal donation."

   Dr. F. M. Markoe, of the New York Hospital, in a letter to Dr.
 Franklin Bache,  of Philadelphia: " We  have been much inter-
 ested in the matter of the Testimonial to Dr. Morton, and feel the
 conviction that not only he is entitled to the credit of the  discov- 
54
ery of this great practical use of ether, but that the count.y owe
him a debt of gratitude which ought to take some tangible and
available form."

  Prof. Alfred C. Post,  of New York,  in  a letter to  Prof. S. D.
Gross, of Philadelphia:  "I hope  the Profession, of your city, will
take an interest in obtaining from the community some substantial
acknowledgment of the  great services which Dr. Morton has ren-
dered to science and humanity.
  " I think, from the investigations which I have made, that there
is no reason to doubt that he is entitled to the exclusive merit of
introducing the valuable discovery which he claims to have made,
and that the efforts which have been  made by others to deprive
him of his claim have been characterized by gross injustice."

  Dr. B. W. McCivadv, of the Bellevue  Hospital, New York, in
a letter to Dr. W. II.  Gobrecht,  of Philadelphia: "It has  been
deemed just,  by  the  leading  medical men of Boston and  New
York, that Dr. Morton should realize something more from his dis-
covery than barren honors, to which he has to support his claims
at his own expense."

   Prof. Willard Parker, of New York, in  a letter to  Mr. Allsop:
"Dr. Morton has laid the civilized world under  an infinite obliga-
tion, and  exhausted his means by so doing.  I am desirous  that
some return should be made, and he be relieved from his condition
of want.  In  this city a movement is being made in furtherance
of this object."

   Dr. John Watson, of the New York Hospital, in a letter to John
A. Stevens, Esq.:  " As  our  national government is not likely to
remunerate  Dr. Morton for the trouble and expense, not to speak
of loss  of business, to  which he has  been subjected, American
people  should take his sacrifices  into serious consideration, and
 show by their own  liberality that what the Government cannot do,
 the people are not willing to leave undone." 
APPLICATIONS
    BY  THE MORTON TESTIMONIAL ASSOCIATION,

TO THE UTm Aa\D 38th CONGRESS, URGLVG COMPEI\SATIOX FOR THE

             USE   OF  ANESTHETICS

         IN THE  ARMY AND  NAVY  OF THE  UNITED STATES.
   This Association, consisting of some of the most distinguished and
 scientific men of the country, and representing a  large body of Ameri-
 can physicians, was formed for the purpose of  procuring from the Gov-
 ernment and the people an adequate testimonial for Dr. Morton, as a
 remuneration for the e:cpenditures* he has incurred in conferring upon
 thfin the inestimable boon of Etherization.
   Before further urging  this testimonial upon  the people, this  Associ-
 ation determined to make an application to the Government  for the
 use of Aiuesthetics in the army  and  navy, under auspices that should
 as far as possible determine whether, under any circumstances, Congress
 would make an appropriation to Dr. Morton, or whether  the  whole
 amount must be raised from  the people.
   The  military committee of the Senate,  37th Congress, 3rd session,
 made a report confirming all  the previous reports, affirmed the claim of
 Dr. Morton, and reported the facts to the  Senate, but they refused to
 pass a bill.
   It will be seen by the representation made to Congress by this Asso-
 ciation, that they secured the co-operation of the  most eminent  and
 patriotic persons in the country.
   The following document, and selections from the  papers that accom-
panied it, will convey an idea how vigorously and enthusiastically this
claim  was urged upon Congress from  all sections of the Union.

 * Estimated at $200,000.  Sep Senate Eeport No. 89, 37th Congresss, 3rd Session.
               A 
58
A REPRESENTATION* TO CONGRESS. BY THE  MORTON  1 KST1MONIAI.  -AS-
  SOCIATION,  COVERING  A PORTION  ill-'  THE  NEW AND  RECENTLY
  RECEIVED   PETITIONS.   MEMORIALS,  RESOLUTIONS,  AND   LETTERS
  FROM  A LARGE  NUMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES.  P RO-KSS'>HS
  AND  SURGEONS  OF  THE  PRINCIPAL  COLLEGES AND  HOSPITALS,
  SI'RGEON.S AND OFFICERS OF  THE  FEDERAL ARMY, ETC., ETC., URG-
  ING COMPENSATION FOR THE  USE  OF ANAESTHETICS  IN  THE  ARMY
  AND NAVY.   SUBMITTED  TO THE THIRTY-E1 ('. II I II CONGRESS.

To the  Honorable  the Senate and Boose of Representatives  of the
        United. Stales, ut  Cmigress asxcnihled:
  An Association having  been  formed in  the city of  Boston,  Mass.,
representing a  large body of American physicians,  for the purpose of
procuring for Dr.  W. T.  U.  Morton, of Boston, an expression of the
grateful sense entertained by  his fellow men, of the  benefit ho  has  con-
ferred on them, and some adequate remuneration for his expenditures
in demonstrating the great  physiological fact  that  the  human system
may  be safely  placed in a condition of insensibility to pain, and estab-
lishing the practicability and  safety of Etherization, which led directly
to the use of chloroform and  other anaesthetic agents for the relief of
human  suffering;  and  in the  successful  introduction of this great
discovery :
  The subscriber, on behalf of the Association, herewith respectfully
submits to Congress petitions and  representations recently received by-
it from  members of the American  Medical  Association, Scientific So-
cieties. Professors and Surgeons of the principal colleges and hospitals,
Surgeons, Officers  and wounded  soldiers  of the  Federal army,  and
prominent citizens,  and selections from  numerous letters and  testimo-
nials  of the most emphatic  character from men  eminent in the various
professions throughout the country, urging upon Congress an immedi-
ate appropriation for the use of anesthetics in  the army and navy;  also
proceedings of the   " Morton  Testimonial Association,"  embracing the
signatures and resolutions  of the Medical  Profession of Boston, New
York and Philadelphia, in support of Dr.  Morton's claims.
   Bv reference to Senate Report No. S«),  37th Congress, 3rd Session,*
on Dr.  Morton's title and efforts  to gain  from the United Styles Gov-
ernment a return of the  expenditures  that  he has  made  in the intro-
duction of Etherization, it will be seen, that in the opinion of the Medical
Profession of America  as well ;is  of the chief  authorities of  the  Na-
  * Tliv evidence upon which this P.. port is  .>as,d, may be found  in pp.  60 to 166, of tho an.
pondix in the Senate document room. 
59
tional Government and of competent institutions in our  own  country
and in Europe, and of our most eminent men  of science and letters, Dr.
Morton is entitled to the merit of having given this blessing to the hu-
man family.
  Thousands of our citizens  iu private life  have  been saved from the
pangs incident to  the  various  diseases to  which the  race  is subject;
thousands of our soldiers, on the field of battle, have been made  insen-
sible,  to the tortures of gunshot wounds and surgical operations ; thou-
sands of mothers have been spared the agonies of childbirth by the
beneficent agency of ether and chloroform ;  but Dr. Morton  himself has
spent many years of his  life  and all his property, and though no longer a
young man, is still impoverished by the exertions he has made in con-
ferring this great  blessing on  mankind.  It is  respectfully suggested,
that some token from  Government of the just appreciation of the value
of the  services of this benefactor of his fellow  creatures, is simply  an
act of justice.   The introduction of Anesthetics would have have been
worth millions of  money to the country during the present war, could it
have been no otherwise obtained, and that it is due to the character of a
 great people, whose soldiers have been so signally benefited by this dis-
covery,  that their representatives  should express  to Dr. Morton their
gratitude for  the benefit  he  has conferred upon his fellow countrymen,
as well as upon all mankind, by some  testimonial^ of a value adequate
to the  benefits which have  been conferred,  and  the  resources of the
nation which has  received them.
   On behalf of the Morton Testimonial Association,*
                                 JOHN  WARE, Cin Ex. Com.
* See page 5, Proceedings of the Morton Testimonial Association. 
AiST  APPEAL.
To the Xeic England Delegation in  Congress, United States.

  Gentlemen: The  undersigned hereby express to you  their convic-
tion that Dr.  William T. G. Morton, is the discoverer of  tin*  practical
application of Etherization for the relief of pain, generally,  and in sur-
gical  operations in particular ;  that  we consider it one of the  most
important discoveries  ever made in Medicine, and one of the  most  im-
portant to the human  race ever made  l>v  man; and we  do most earn-
estly desire, as a matter of justice to Dr.  Morton, that you will sustain
and urge his application to the Government and Congress for remuner-
ation, whenever it is  presented, according to the best of your distin-
guished abilities.
  A.  D. IS04.
                       HARVARD  UNIVERSITY.
  Thomas Hill, LL. D. President of  Harvard University.
  Joseph Lovering, Professor in Harvard University.
  Benjamin Pierce,         "              "
  Jeffries Wyman,         "              "
  Oliver Stearns,           "              "
  Francis James Child,     "              "
  Emory Washburn,        "              "
  Francis Bowen,          "              "
  James Russell Lowell,    "              "
  G.  P. Bond,             "              "
  W. W. Goodwin,        "              "
  George M.  Lane,         "              "
  Henry W.  Longfellow, late Professor  in Harvard University.
  Jared Sparks, late President of Harvard University.
  E.  N. Horsford, late Rumford Professor in Harvard University
  J. E. Worcester, Worcester's Dictionary.
  Joseph Winlock, United States Nautical Almanack. 
61
VY. II. Stearns, D. I)
K. Hitchcock,  late Pi
E. S. Snell,    Prof
\V. S. Tyler,
J. (.J. Vose,
E. P. 0rowell,
E. Hitchcock,  Jr.,
Wm. L. Montague,
R. H. Mather,

Mark Hopkins, D. D
Albeit Hawkins,  Po
John Tatloek,
John Baseom,
Arthur L.  Perry,
John L. T. Phillips,

Amos A. Lawrence,
Gardner Brewer,
Charles A mory,
James Lawrence,
George B. Upton,
James Aniory,
Isaac? Livermore,
J. M. Forbes,
R. B. Forbes,
William Dwight.
    AMHERST COLLEGE.
., LL.  0.,  President of Amherst College.
■sident and Professor of Amherst College.
:ssor of Amherst College.
    WILLIAMS COLLEGE..
., LL, D.,  President, of Williams College.
fessor of Williams College.
        BOSTON.
             J. Ingersoll Bowditch,
             Edward Austin,
             Franklin Haven,
             David Sears,
             W. W. Tucker,
             Abbott Lawrence,
             John A. Lowell,
             James Bowdoin Bradlee,
             Alpheus Hardy,
             George W. Lyman,
and one thousand others. 
PETITI OXS.
To the  Honorable the Senate  and Jlou.se  of Representatives of the
        United States, in Congress assembled:
   The undersigned hereby testify to your honorable body, that in  the
almost unanimous opinion of  the  Medical Profession  of  America,  as
well as  of our  National Government  and competent  institutions,  Dr.
Morton was the first to discover or demonstrate the great  phvsiological
fact that the human system is capable of  being placed  safely in a con-
dition in which it becomes insensible to pain,  and to prove the practi-
cability and  safety of Etherization, which  directly led to  the use of
chloroform and other anesthetic agents for the relief of human suffer-
ing.   They beg leave  earnestly to represent  to Congress, that,  iu their
opinion, the introduction of anesthetics would have been worth millions
of money  to the country during  the present war could it have  been  no
otherwise obtained ; and that it  is due  to  the character  of  a  great peo-
ple, whose soldiers  have  been so signally benefited  by this discovery,
that their representatives should express to Dr. Morton their gratitude
for the benefit he has conferred  upon his  fellow countrymen, as well as
upon all mankind, by some testimonial of a value adequate to the ben-
efits which have been conferred, and the resources of the nation which
has received them.
                               MAINE.
                t                              Bowdoin College, lt<0L
          Leonard Woods. D. D ,  President of Medical Faculty.
          P. A. Chadbourne, M. D.,  Professor in Bowdoin College.
          William C. Robiiwun. M. D.,  ■•
          Israel T. Dana, M. D.,
          Isaac Lincoln, M. D.,        'l
          John D.  Lincoln, M. D.,      ••              "
          H. W. Torrey, Professor in Harvard University.
          Asa  *Ti'ay.        '•            "
          Wolcott Gibbs.    '•
          Joel Parker,      ' ■
          Daniel Treadwell. lure Professor in Harvard  Univei~ny. 
03
                                                G-o,yt{otm iV/<v'a, 1864.
        John Karly,  President Georgetown College.
        Leonard Xota. D. I).,  Professor in Georgetown College.
        James Cnrley,           "             1L        "
                                          C/rerleml Mr.Urul Col/eye, 1864.
John Delanmter,  M. 1>                  Alleyne Maynard, M. D.
I. P. Kirtland, M. D.                   Proctor Thayer, M. D.
J.  Lang Capels, M. D.                  D. 11.  Scott, M. D.
H. Kirke  Cashing. M. I>.
                                             Univfity of Michigan, 1864.
         Geo. P. Williams, Professor of  Phvsics
         Jas.  R.  Boise, Professor of  Greek.
         Henry S. Frieze, Professor of Latin.
         Jas.  ('.  Watson, Professor of Astronomy.
         E. P. Evans. Professor of Modern Languages and Literature.
         Edward Olney, Professor of Mathematics.
         I''.. O. Haven, President of  rniversity of Michigan.
         L. D. Chapin, Professor of  Philosophy.
         C K. Adams, Acting Professor of History.
                                          Ihniim.nih College, X. K, 1864.
         Asa  D.  Smith,  President of Dartmouth College.
         0. P. Hubbard, Professor of Chemistry.
         Daniel J. Xoyes, Professor of Theology.
          Edwin D. Sanborn, Professor of Rhetoric,  etc.
         Charles A. Aiken, Professor of Latin.
         Win. A. Packard, Professor of Greek.
          S. G. Brown, Professor of Natural Philosophy.
         George  S. Morris, Tutor.
                                             Unirt,sit,/ of Rochester, 1864.
         M. B. Anderson, President rniversity of  Rochester.
         A. C. Kendrick,  Professor of  Greek.
        J. F. Richardson, Professor of Latin, etc.
         J. T. Quiinby,  Professor of  Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.
         S. S. Cutting, Professor of Rhetoric  and History.
         Henry A. Ward. Professor of Xatural Sciences.
                                         Princeton. X.  J., M<n\h 3, 18G4.
    John Maclean, President of the College of New Jersey.
    Stephen. Alexander, Professor of Xatural Philosophy and of Astronomy.
    Lyman X. A^twater, Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy.
    G-. Musgrave Giger, Professor of  Latin.
    Arnold Guyot, Professor of  Geology and Physical Geography.
    J. S. Schanck, Professor of Chemistry.
    J. H. Mcllvaine, Professor of Belles Lettres.
    H. C. Cameron,  Professor of Greek.
    John T. Duffields, Professor of Mathematics and Mechanics. 
(el
                                            th-nem Mnl,col  Colkye, 1861
H. N. Eastman, M. D.,  Prof. Theory  and  Practice, Geneva  Med. Coll., N  V.
H. A. Potter, M. D.
                                            Hobart College,  Ccjic.iv, ISC.l.
H. Metcalf,  D.D.                      \\\ D. Wetson,  D. I).
                                 University of Chicago,  Cliicago, 111., 1SC.1.
         J. C. Bnrrouglis, President of the University of (-hicago.
         A. J. Sawyer, Professor University of Ohio.
         Wm.  Matthews, Professor History and of Rhetoric.
         Joseph C. Breckm, Professor of Latin Language and Literature.
         G. W. Thomas, Tutor in Latin and Greek.
                     Ruigtif s College,  Xee- Brwisirick. X. J., March 2,  lstll.
    Wm. H. Campbell, President.             D. T. Reiley, Professor.
    Geo. H. Cook,  Professor.                  David Murray,   "
    David Coley,
                          Union College,  Schenrjliuly, X.  V.,  F,-!>. 22, 1861
    L. P. lliekok, so far as informed, Acting President.
     J: W. Jackson, Professor of Mathematics.
     Jonathan Pearson, Prof, of Xatural  History.
    Wendell L'Amorcux,  Professor  of Modern Languages.
    Benjamin Stanton,  Professor of  Latin.
    Charles F. Chandler, Professor of Chemistry.
    Taylor Lewis.
    A.  M. Vedder, M.  la., Professor of Mathematics and Physiolouv.

And the Professors  of  one. hundred other colleges. 
SURGEONS  AND  OFFICERS OF  THE  ARMY.*
                                                   February 4lh, 1863.
      D. C. Greonleaf, Assistant Surgeon 4th Iowa Infantry.
      J. G. Eckles, Chwplain 4th Iowa Infantry Volunteers.
                                         Culpepper,  Va., Jan. 28, 1*64.
C. A. Wheeler, Asst. Surg. 12th Mass.    W. It. W. Hinds, Surgeon 12th .Mass.
Chas. C. Wehrum, Adjt. Pith Mass.
                     U. S.  Marine Hospital, SI. Louis,  Mo., Jan.  30, 1864.
James H. Peabody, Surg. U. S. Vols.    L. H. Callaway, A. A. Surg. U. S. A.
                                            Philadelphia, Feb. SOi, 1S64.
               Paul B.  Goddard, Surgeon U. S. Volunteers.
J. A. Brady, A. A. Surgeon U. S. A., in charge Officers' Hosp., Louisville, Ky
F. Meacham, Surgeon U. S. Volunteers.
F. M. Oakley, Assistant Surgeon U. S. Volunteers.
John S. Logan, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
Henry A. Mitchell, Major Indiana Cavalry.
JohnL. Bryan, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
R. A. Bell, Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army.
                                    Washington, D.  C,  Jan. 30th,  1801.
     J. S. Watts,  Acting Surgeon 4th Michigan Infantry.
     Robert Le Baron, Assistant Surgeon.
     John Seage,  Chaplain 4th Michigan Infantry.
     Geo. W. Lumbard, Lieutenant Colonel Comdg 4th Michigan Volunteers.
     Jairus W.  Hall, Major 4th Michigan Volunteers.
                                            Baltimore, Md., Jhh.<  1sG4.
         C.  W. Jones, Surgeon U. S. Volunteers.
         E. E.  Atkinson, A^eting Assistant Surgeon IT. S.  Army.
         W. G. Small, Acting Assistant  Surgeon  U. S. Array.
         H. M. Drach, A^cting Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
                                               Lynn, Mass.. Jan.,  lsC.4.
                  B. B. Breed, Surgeon U. S.  Volunteers.

  * Heads of Departments, Sui-L-.-on Oeneral,  Chief Bureau of MolidiR- and Sundry. Su
geons of the Army and Navy, will be found in  the Appendix to Senate l.eport, No. 39, 37th
Congress, 3rd So^ion, pp. 76 to Hi.
                 B 
od
                            HEADQUAHTI Its AltTILI.HtY  Brhmdk,        )
                                    ,Mh Corps, A rm v of the Potomac,
                                                  'January >>{\th,  lho4  )
                John Bell, Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
                                                    February :! 1,  1st", I.
          Norman (lay, Surgeon U.  S. Volunteers.
          P. X. Woods, :t'.»th Iowa Infantry, Surgeon 2d  Division
          F. F. Randolph, Assistant Surgeon 18th Volunteers.
          J. L. Hoover, Acting .Assistant Surgeon,  LI.  S. Army.
          \\. D. Craig,  Acting  Assistant Surgeon, 9th Illinois Infantry.
          J. C. Simnionson,  AVssistant Surgeon 66th Indiana Infantry.
                                  1864.
   W.  Nichols, Jr., M.  D., Assistant Surgeon 2nd Massachusetts Infantry.

                                   Louisnll,. Kentucky, Jan. 30th,  1KC.4.
          R. C. Wood,  Assistant Surgeon General U. S.  Army.             ^
          Joseph B. Brown,  Surgeon U. S.  Army.
          F. L. Toun, Assistant Surgeon U.  S. Army.
          C. C. Gray, AVssistant Surgeon U.  S. Army.
          C. 0. Byrne,  Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
          John W. Brewer, Assistant Surgeon U.  S. Army.
          B. E. Fryer,  Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
          John A. < leterlang,  Acting Assistant Surgeon  U. S. Army.

                   U.  S.  Genual JlatpiLal, Mound City, 111., Jan. 31, ]S64.
      H.  Wardner, Surgoon U. S. Volunteers, in charge of Hospital.
       A.  H. Kellogg, M.  D., Acting Assistant Surgeon  U. S. Army.
      J. A. C. McCoy, M. D., Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S.  Army.
      C. H. Vaill, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S.  Army,
      Wm.  N. McCoy, Acting AVssistant Surgeon U.  S. Army.
      John  Sartorius, Hospital Steward U. S. Army.
      Cornelius A. Groot, Medical Cadet U.  S. Army.
                                                    Philadelphia,  1S64.
   Chas. O'Leary, Surgeon U.  S. Volunteers, Medical  Director 6th Ccrps.

                                              Washington, J).  C,  1864.
J.  C. McKee, AAssistant Surgeon U. S. Army, in charge  of Lincoln Hospital.
H. M. Dean, M. D.                     Henry E.  Paine, M. D.
W. F. Peck, M. D.                     John Stark, M. D.
A. M. Allen, M. D.                     H.  C. Burritt, M. D.
A. M. Plant, M. D.                     John G. Walcott, M. D.
II. Allen,  M. D.
  The above gentlemen constitute the staff of Lincoln Hosp., Washington, D.C

                                             Fort Slocum, D.  C,  1864.
          John J. Meigs. Assistant Surgeon  1st Heavy  Artillery.
          Edward P. Loe. Captain 1st Heavy Artillery. 
67
         Aldan F. Walker, Captain.
         Robinson Templcton, Captain.
         E. B. Parker, Lieutenant.
         Orlo H. Austin, 1st Lieutenant 1st Heavy Artillery.
         Wm.  Goodrich, Captain.    <•
         Chas. Hundson, Major 1st Heavy Artillery.
         Chas. J. Lewis, 1st Lieutenant 1st Heavy Artillery.
         J. R. Maxham, 1st Lieutenant 1st Heavy -Vi-tillery.
         Eli R. Hart, 2nd Lieutenant 1st Heavy Artillery.
         Geo. G. Tilden, 1st Lieutenant 1st Heavy Artillery.

                                             Cincinnati, 0., Feb., 1864.
         A. J. Slemmer, Brigadier General U.  S. A'oluntecrs.
         J. F. Head, Surgeon U. S.  Army.

                                 1864.
                     It.  iNtm-ray, Surgeon U. S. Army.
                                                 Baltimore, Mil, 1SG4.
          Thomas Hewson Bache, Surgeon U. S. Volunteers.

                               I i KAOQUARTERS 1ST BRIGADE (Regulars), "(
                                      2nd Division, 5th Corps, 1864.   )
Samuel   A. Storrow, AVssistant Surgeon U.  S. Army, Surgeon-in-Chicf 1st
      Brigade (Regular.s), 2nd Division, 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac.

                       Hospital—Camp Parol, near aAnxapolis. Md., {
                                                 January 29//i, 1«64.   )
      James W. Pittman, Surgeon U. S. Volunteers.
      Andrew McLetchie, Assistant Surgeon 19th New Vork State Militia.
      B. F. Banby, M. D.
                                                 Annapolis, Md., 1864
           B. Howard, Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
                                           Philadelphia,  Jan. 26, 1864.
      B. Knickerbocker, AAssistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
      Edward  L. Duer,  Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.

                                               Philadelphia,  Pa., 1^6.'!.
      D. Kennedy, A^cting Assistaut Surgeon U. S.  Army.
      L. K. Baldwin, AVctiug Assistant Surgeon U. S.  Army.
      F. L. 0.  Rahmg, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
      Edward Stonor, Acting Surgeon U. S. Army.
      M. Lampon, Acting AVssistant Surgeon IT. S.  Army.
      E. Dyer, AVcting AVssistant Surgeon U. S.  Army.
      W. West, Acting  Assistant Surgeon U. S. AArmy.
      James H. Hutchinson,  Acting .Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
      aV. H. Norwood, AVssistant Surgeon V. S. AArmy.
      M. J. Grier, -Vcting Assistant Surgeon U. S. AArmy.
      S. G. Minassian, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S.  Army. 
I) Si
       J. H. Dixon, Acting Assistant Surgeon  V.  S.  Army.
       Elisha Crowell,  Acting Assistant Surgeon V. S. .Vrmy.
       James Williams, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S.  Army.
       Joseph B.  Roe,  Acting Assistant Surgeon I'.  S. Army.
       M. W.  Richards, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S.  Army.

                             Camp 9th Mass.  Volunteers, January 26///,  1864.
    P. R. (iuiney, Colonel '.»th Massaeliusetts,  and commanding 2nd Brigade.
    James F.  Sullivan, Surgeon 9th Regiment  Massachusetts Volunteers.
    M. W. Phalen,  Adjutant 9th Massachusetts.
  Every  officer of this regiment would gladly  recommend this petition if timo
were allowed to present it to them.               J- F.  Sullivan, Surgeon.

                                              Washington, J).  C, lst',4.
       W. II. Lincoln,  Surgeon 7th Massachusetts Volunteers.
       Thomas D.  Johns,  Colonel 7th Massachusetts Volunteer*.
       E. aV. Dean, Adjutant 7th Massachusetts.
       J.  W. Thompson, A. R. Q. M. 7th  Massaeliusetts Volunteers.

                                  Camp in the Field, January 2'Mh, lSlil.
    Ceoige W. Tower, Jr., Assistant Surgeon  24th  Michigan Volunteers.

                                    Alexamlria,  \'a., January 'M)th, 1864.
       Charles Page, Surgeon U. S. Army.
       VV. Leon Hammond, M. D., Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
       Charles W.„Kooohling, Acting Assistant Surgeon U.  S. Army.
       Richard E. Price, .Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
       James Robertson, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S.  Army.
       1). T. Brown, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S.  Army.

                                              Washington, I). ('., 1864.
       Franklin Grube,  Assistant Surgeon U.  S. Volunteers.-
       Theodore H. Cooper, Acting Assistant Surgeon U.  S  Army.
      Joseph Taylor, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
       John J. Linson,  Assistant Surgeon 6th New York Artillery.

                                     Washington, I). ('.,  Fein-wiry, 1864.
Lieutenant Colonel J. B. Parsons,  commanding 10th Massachusetts  Volunteers
D. F. Parker, Major 10th Massaeliusetts Volunteers.
John H. Oilman, Assistant Surgeon.     F. B. Perkins, Chaplain.

                                              Washington, I).  C, 1864.
Thomas Sherwin,  Jr.,  Lieutenant Colonel commanding 22nd Mass. Infantry.
Mason  AV. Burt, Major 22nd Massachusetts Volunteers.
G. T. Perkins,  Assistant Surgeon 22nd Massachusetts Volunteers.
Fred. S. Benson, Lieutenant and Adjutant 22nd Massachusetts Volunteers.

         Headquarters, 1st Brigade,  1st  Division. 1st Army Corps, )
                                                 January 29th,  1864.   )
Henry A. Morrow, Colonel 24th Michigan Volunteers, commanding Brigade. 
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J. D. Wood,  Captain and Assistant Adjutant General.
J. H. Beech,  Surgeon-in-Chief of 1st Brigade, etc.
D. B. Daily, Lieutenant and Acting Assistant D. C.
                                                 AU.ranih-ia,, Va., 1864.
             Edward Brooks. Assistant Surgeon U. S.  Army.

                                               Washington, D. C, 1864.
                 J. H.  Baxter, Surgeon U. S. Volunteers.

                                               Washington,  D. C, 1864.
       W. H. Wilbur, Surgeon 1st Rhode Island Cavalry.
       Augustine A. Mann, Assistant Surgeon 1-t Rhode Island Cavairy.
                                               Washington, D. C, 1864.
Jos. S. Goge, Lieut. Col. 29th Mo. Vols, and A. A. I.  Gen.  1st Div. 15th A.  0.
S D. Nichols, Major commanding 4th Iowa Veteran Infantry.
J. Eden, 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant 4th Iowa
M. AV.  Robbins,  Surgeon 4th Iowa Infantry.
                                   Gam;) near Braaiy Station, Va., 1864.
   L. D. Miller, Assistant Surgeon in charge 1st New Jersey Volunteers.
   Wm. Henry, Lieutenant Colonel commanding 1.1th infantry.
   A. M. Way, Major 1st New York Volunteers.
   Isaac L. F. Elkin, Adjutant 1st New Jersey Infantry.
   R. B. Gard, Chaplain 1st New Jersey A'olunteers.

                                   1864.
       Samuel S. Jessop, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S.  Army.
       Ira Impey, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
       Henry 11. Ruger, Medical Cadet U.  S. Army.
       J. E.  AVilson, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
       J. S. Bull, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. .Vrmy.
        Jennat Wright,  Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.      •
       J. M. Study, Assistant Surgeon U. S. A'olunteers,
       J. Z.  Hall, Acting Assistant Surgeon IT. S. Army.
       F: DeAVint, Acting AAssistant Surgeon U.  S. Army.
       B. Johnson, Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
       W. M. Dorran,  Acting  Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.
       B. J. D.  Irwin,  Surgeon U.  S. Army, Sup't U. S. General Hospital.

                               West Creek, •HW Virginia-, Feb. 11th, 1864.
 John M. Robinson, Surgeon U.  S. A^olunteers, Medical Director,  2nd Division.
 D. Baguley,  Surgeon 1st AVest Yd. Volunteers, Act. Med. Director 2nd Brigade.
 AV.  B. Crain, Acting Surgeon Ringgold Battery,  Pennsylvania Cavalry.
 John S. Taylor, 1st Assistant Surgeon 23d Illinois Volunteers, Act. Surgeon.
 C. M. Stinson, 2nd Assistant Surgeon 23rd Illinois Volunteers.
 J. English, Assistant Surgeon 1st Virginia Volunteers.
 David Shanor, .Assistant Surgeon 4th West Virginia Cavalry. 
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                                  ISC. t.
      Cyrus S. Mann, Assistant Mirgeon 6th Massachusetts Cavalry.

                                       Folly Island, S.  C, Feb.  llh,  1S64.
      Burt S.  Wilder, .Vssistant Surgeon 55th Massachusetts Light Infantry.

                                               Vickshurg, Feb. 11,  186.1.
Wm.  W. Nelson. Assistant Surg. 15th Iowa, in charge  1st Div. Pioneer Corps

                                                        Warsaw,  1864.
Edw.  R. Parks. M. D.                W. II.  Davenport, M. D.
T. Davenport,  M. D.                  S. C. Sap].. M. D.
H. M. Cowgill, M. D.
                                                      Cinciii7iati,  1864.
      E. J.  Bonnie, M.  P.. Surgeon 2nd Michigan Infantry.
      H.  A. Cleland,  Assistant Surgeon 2nd Michigan Infantry.
      R. S.  Yickcy.  Assistant Surgeon 2nd Michigan A'olunteers.

                                                      Maryrille,  1864.
      Wm.  Brownell. Surgeon 2nd Michigan Cavalry.
      Edwin C.  Bidwell,  Surgeon  31*t  Mass.  A'olunteers. (6th Mass. Cavalry.)
      Samuel  A. Green, Surgeon 21th Massachusetts A'olunteers.
      Lucius B. Smith,  Surgeon  7th Heg'unont Minnesota Volunteers.

                          Heahqiarters Mei>.  lM;i"r.  34th Iowa Vols. }
                                          Coast of Texas.              £
      A'ictor II. ('oilman, Surgeon 34th Iowa Volunteers.
      AVarren S. Duegan, Lieutenant Colonel commanding 34th Iowa Vols.
      Win.  AV. Pry ant,  Adjutant.

                                                  Memphis,  Tenn.,  1864.
J. M. Mack. Surgeon 113th 111. Inf.     Geo. B. Hogg, Colonel.
L. B. Brown,  Assistant  Surgeon.       Ccnhas Williams, Major.

                                             Xatdiez,  Miss..  A/,nt,  1863.
           John Kemper, Assistant Surgeon 2Nth Illinois Infantry.

                                           Fort <Jum.meng, X. .1/.,  1S63.
Rudolf  Tauszky, M   D.. Assistant Surgeon U.  S.  V. ;  Post Surgeon at Fort
      Cummings, N.  M., late a Surgeon in the  Italian  Army.

                                                       March 31,  1864.
S. B. Hadley,  Surgeon 35th Illinois Yhmieors.
AA'm.  AV. Henry, Lieutenant Colonel 10th A'ermont A^olunteers.
Almon Clark,  Assistant  Surgeon       "        "
Wyllys  Lyman,  Adjutant            "        "
E. M. Haynes, Chaplain              "        "
Owen M. Long, Surgeon 11th Illinois Infantry.
John P. Duncan, Major  13th Kentucky Volunteers.
E. S. Cooper,  Assistant  Surgeon       '■
L. J. Taylor, 2nd Assistant Surgeon  u 
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J. R.  IT. Caldwell, Captain Co. G,  13th Ky. A'ols., and Provost  Marshal 1st
      Brigade, 2nd Division, 23rd Army Corps.
B. P.  Estes, Lieut. Colonel comdg. 13thKy. A'ol. Inf. (formerly a Physician.)

                                       Kansas City, Mo..  March 20, 1864.
S. D.  Carpenter, Surg.U. S. A'., Med. Director Pist. of the Border, (late of Iowa.)
P. Byam, Assistant Surgeon 32nd  Iowa Infantry.
Jonathan D. Wylie, Assistant Surgeon 35th Regiment Illinois A'olunteer Inf.
S. R. Towle, Surgeon 30th Massachusetts A'olunteers.
G. M. Pease, Assistant Surgeon 54th Massachusetts A'olunteers (in charge.)
Chas. H. Lathrop, Assistant Surgeon  1st Iowa Cavalry (in  chaige of regim't.)

                                 Camp Xear Brandy. Va.,  March 4, 1864.
John A. Douglass, Surgeon 11th Massachusetts A'olunteers. '
Samuel C. AVhillier, Assistant Surgeon 11th Massachusetts  A'olunteers.

                                      Jacksonville, Fiorina, Feb. 10, 1864.
Chas. B. Bridgham, Assistant Surgeon in chaige. 54th Massachusetts A'olunteers.
Giles. M. Pease, AVssistant Surgeon 54th Massachusetts Volunteers.

                                 Fort Pulaski, Georgia, February 17, 1864.
       J. AV.  Grosvenor,  Assistant Surgeon 3rd Rhode Island Artillery.

                                  New  Orleans, Louisiana, February, 1864.
Samuel Kneeland, Surgeon U. S.  V., at Barracks,  U. S.  General Hospital.
Otis  M. Humphrey, Surgeon U. S A'olunteers at Barracks, U. S. Gen. Hospital.

                                       Carrollton, La., February 15, 1864.
              E.  A. Thompson, Surgeon 12th Maine A'olunteers.
              Wm. C.  Towle, Assistant Surgeon 12th Maine Regiment.

                                          Hunisville, Ala., Feb. 23, 1864.
              J. AV. McKinney, Surgeon 63rd Illinois Infantry.

                                                   Beaufort, N.C., 1863.
Dixi Crosley Hough, Assistant Surgeon 2nd Reg. Heavy Artillery,  Mass. Vols.
H. M. Stone,  Lieutenant  Colonel 3rd New York Artillery.

                                     Little Rock,  Ark., February 14, 1864.
       C. C. Andrews, Colonel 3rd Minnesota Veteran Volunteers.
       E. AV.  Foster, Major       "           "           "
       A. C. AVedge, Surgeon      "           "           "
       E. D. Ayres, M. D.
       M. R. Canley, Assistant Surgeon 3rd Regiment Minnesota Vol. Infantry.

                                        Russville, Georgia, March 1, 1864.
       Wm. H. Elliot, Surgeon 11th Regiment Michigan A'olunteers.
       .Nelson I.  Packard, Assistant Surgeon 11th Michigan Infy Volunteers.
       H, Sf Oris wold, 
                                      i\.,.".»,ooga, T.nn.,  Mn.hl, 1861.
C. C.  Berne, Ass't S„rg. 1'. S. A.     J. J. Whitney, Ass't Surg. 18th Wis. Vol.
J. Morris Brown.  A.Surg.  V.  S. A     S. I.. Kennedy, A. A  Surgeon U.  S. A.
II. S. Kilburn,  A. A. Surg. U. S. A    Chas. E Hall, A. A. Surgeon V. S.  A.
J. W. Di-i.v, A   A. Surg.  U.  S. A.    N  Teal, Ass't Surg,  ssih Ind. Vol.
G. W. Masscy.  A. A. Surg. V. S. A.    William T. Kirk, A. A. Surgeon U. S. A.
E. AV. Savage.  A. A. Surg. I". S. A.

      D.  AV. Hand, Surgeon  Volunteers.
      E.  P. Morong, Surgeon U. S. Volunteers.
      K.  C. Mundy, Surgeon  Pith  .New York Cavalry.
      Ceo. E.  McPonald,  Assistant Surgeon Pith New York Cavalry.
      Alex. A  Kdmeston,  Surgeon 92nd New York Volunteers.
      C.  A. Cowulll. Surgeon of Volunteers.
      J.  AV.  Page, l'.  S. Sanitary Commission.
      aV.  D. Wilson, Assistant  Surgeon 3rd New York Artillery.
      P  Cregg,  Major. Surgeon 23rd  Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
      M  V  Abbott. Surgeon Sot.li Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
       Andrew M. Smith,  Surgeon 40th Massachusetts Volunteers.
      Paul C. Can in,  Assistant Surgeon Kith Massachusetts A'olunteers.
      Harris Howcy, Surge*i 20th  Regiment Iowa Volunteers
      R.  S. Murtin, A—istant Surgeon 20th Regiment Iowa  Volunteers.
       Jones Frankle, Colonel 2nd Massachusetts Artillery.
      Henry T. Lawson, .Major 2nd Massachusetts Artillery.
      Hall Curtis, Surgeon        "              "
      J.  Colvin,  Major            "
      Chas. Kwing, Lieutenant Colonel comdg. 4th New Jersey Volunteers.
       P.  Viekers, Major  4th New Jersey Volunteers.
      W. McElhaney,  Lieutenant and Adjutant 4th New Jersey Voliuiteers.
      J.  M. Pearson,  Captain 4th New Jersey Volunteers.
      J.  D. Osborne,  Surgeon     "          "
      B.  A. Matson, Ass't Surg.   "          "
      B.  Hendry,      "        "  •        "
      J.  N. Lambson,  Capt.Co.G,  "          "
      H.  Howard, Lieut. Colonel  comdg. 2nd Mat viand ATolunteer Infantry.
      John M. Santuryes, .Major             "                  "
      J.  H. McCullough, Ass't Surgeon     "                  *•

                          And live hundred others. 
        A   FEW   OF  THE   LETTERS

                           FROM

EMINENT   SCIENTIFIC   MEN

                      IN SUPPORT OF

       AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE  USE OF ANESTHETICS.
   Letter from Thomas Hill, D. D., LL. B., President of Harvard University.
                                     Cambridge, Feb. 11, 1864.
 Hon. Samuel Hooper :
   My Dear Sir—I have just signed a petition to Congress, and to the
 New England delegation ;  and  knowing that you have had some re-
 cent reason to fear lest I signed what I had not read, I venture to add
 this note, saying that I have read the  petition in behalf of Dr. Morton
 carefully.   This is certainly net a time when the treasury of the United
 States can  afford  heavv drains; but Dr.  Morton's services  to the
 human race  certainly seem to me worthy of a grateful appreciation by
 all people, and especially by  his own nation, at a time when his services
 are brought into unusual  demand, and their great value in lessening
 pain,  and saving life, are made so strikingly manifest.
   I cannot but  hope that  Congress will, even  now, do justice to one
 who has waited so many years to  receive it.
                               Very sincerely yours,
                                            THOMAS HILL.

  Note.—Letters from Boston, Now Tork, Philadelphia, and other large cities, enforcing this
appropriation, are to be found in Appendix  to Senate Report, No. 89, 87th Congress, 3rd Ses-
sion, pp. 69 to 72, and 86 to 96.
              c 
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              Utter from Professor Benjamin Puree, LL. D.
                             Harvard  Collkok,  July It), IS63.
 Hon. Hkxrv  Winter Davis, etc.:
   My Dear Sir—I desire  to urge upon  you  to give  the case of Dr.
 Morton the benefit of vour generous eloquence and  powerful influence.
 America, has been too backward  in  rewarding the discoverers of the
 Hinestheiie agencies.   There have been conflicting claims, but  those of
 Dr. Morton seem at length to ho established above  all others;  and 1
 hope you  will  feel that his claims  deserve the immediate and full  recog-
 nition by Congress in the most substantial form.
                   Very faithfully and respect fully
                       Your obedient servant and sincere  friend,
                                        I3KNJAMIN PIKRCE.

                From Professor Emory Washburn, LL. D.
                                     Cambridge,  Feb.  11,  1861.
 Hon.  E. B.  Wasubi kn :
   My  Dear Sir-—Dr. Morton is an applicant before Congress (or some
 significant  memorial of the obligation the  world, and especially our
 own country, is under to him for his discovery of the  application  of
 etherization to the human  system.   It  is certainly  most  remarkable
 that a discovery  so invaluable to the  race lias so  long  been  suffered to
 remain unreinunerated  in the country whereof its discoverer is a citizen,
 and whose inventors are supposed to be so liberally protected  and re-
 warded.   His  friends in this part of the country think this ought not
 to be, and hope  that Congress will at last do  him an act of justice;
 and I venture  to ask your influence in his favor.  I have  no occasion
 to add mortf, for  I doubt not  you are familiar with the subject of his
 claim ; and will only add that I am,
                  Very truly your obedient servant,
                                      EMORY WASHBURN.

                     Fiom I'm fester F. J. Child.

                                     Cambridge,  Feb. 10,  1864.
 Mr. Charles  Sedgwick, M. C. :
   My  Dear Sir—I am sorry to   say that I am not personally ac-
quainted  with  many  of the Massachusetts  delegation in  Congress,
though I have  used my little influence to have men sent who viight be
known all  the country over.   Dr.  Morton, whose   claims to public
attention and the gratitude of the world no unprejudiced  and well-in- 
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formed man can fail to  feel, has asked me to give him a line to you, in
the hope that  you might lend your aid in securing him tardy justice.
I need not say one  word in presenting his  case, because you  know his
deserts.   Surely  there  never was a  more  favorable time  than  the
present for urging  Dr.  Morton's rights  and wrongs  on the attention
of a sluggish Government.  Ten thousand of soldiers are his witnesses.
   Excuse the liberty that I have taken ; to you I  know that  my note
is already too long.                   Yours faithfully ever.
                                                 F. J.  CHILD.

                   From, Professor Joel Parker, LL. D.
                                      Cambridge,  Feb  17,  1864.
 Hon. J. A. McDougall :
   T>ar Sir — My fellow  townsman,  Dr. William  T. G. Morton, is
 asking from  Congress  some recognition of  his  merits as the  originator
 of the  discovery of the use of ether and chloroform in dental and  sur-
 gical operations, and   some reward for the  great benefit which the
 United States have,  for  the last three years, derived from that  dis-
 covery.  Will you permit me  to introduce the consideration of his
 claims  to your attention?
                       With great respect, very truly yours,
                                               JOEL Pa\RKER.
                     From Professor  E. X. Horsford.
                                       Cambridge, Feb. 18, 1864.
 Hon. Ira Harris, U. S. Senate :
    My  Dear Sir—I beg to say to you that I have  most carefully ex-
 amined the literature of  Etherization, and have become fully satisfied
 of the claims of Dr. Morton to the distinction of having conferred this
 great gift on mankind.
    It would, it seems to me, be a most judicious step for the  National
 Congress to  recognize in  the  most substantial manner the claims of
 Dr. Morton  to a nation's gratitude.
    If it were only  to the suffering relieved in this war, there can scarcely
 be an over-estimate of the indebtedness to  him;  but his  perseverance
 through all  obstacles resulted  in  a  discovery of  infinite  value  for
 all time.
    I scarcely know a person  here who would not rejoice to  hear that
 I 'ongress had given Dr. Morton a quarter of  a million dollars in recog-
 nition  of his  great services to our country and mankind.
                                 I am very truly yours,
                                              E.  N. HORSFORD. 
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                       Fifth .vvk.ni e Hotkl,  N. Y,  Dec, 1863.
Dr. J. Ware:
   Dear Sir—I have received the Congressional Report on the petition
of Dr. Wm. T  G. Morton, asking the  (iovernment for  compensation
for the discovery of the ana-nhetie effects of Sulphuric Kther.  It fully
establishes his claim to this  disco\ erv ; and as 1  witness its  beneficial
results almost  every dav of my life  in  my professional  (experience,  I
lake great pleasure in te>*fving to Dr. Morton's merits in this respect.
   It would be  a lasting disgrace  if a great nation like ours  refuses  a
liberal donation to  one whose discovery has proved such a boon  to its
soldiers and citizens, and will be a blessing to  the  world  in all time to
come.                         Yours truly,
                                 K. K.  PEASLEE, M.  I),  LL. D.
   J.  Wark. M. D., Chairman of  Committee,  etc., etc.

                                       New  York, Dee. !l, 1863.
To the M< nliters of the S note and House of Re/ireseii/td/re.s of the
        United  Stales :

   (ienllemen—I have examined the claims of  Dr. Morton, of Boston
in connection with  the discovery of the aiuesthetic  virtues of Sulphuric
Ether, and am  satisfied that this important discovery is due to him.
Whatever preliminary investigations  may have been  made  by other
persons, I am convinced, by the evidence  which has been presented to
me, that the credit of the  discovery is due to Dr.  Morton, who,  for a
long period of time, devoted  to this subject all the energies of  his mind
and all his pecuniary  resources.   It is  to  his untiring labors that our
country and the world are indebted for the introduction  of  this pow
erful and beneficent agent, by which the pains of surgical operations
are annihilated, and other  most important  benefits are  secured in  the
treatment of various diseases and accidents. As  Dr. Morton has  de-
voted to  these investigations  a  number of  the best  years of his life
and has made large pecuniary sacrifices,  which have been thus far un-
remunerated, I think that he has a just claim upon Congress for a
liberal compensation in consideration of the important benefits which
the sick and  wounded of  our  army and  navy have derived  from his
liscovery.                   Very respectfully yours,
                                   ALFRED C. POST, M.D.,
   Professor of Surgery in University Medical College, and Consulting Surgeon
                     to New York Hospital and St. Luke's Hospital. 
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 Letter from S. I).  Gross, Professor  in Jefferson College, and Suigeon  in Blockley
                Hospital, Author of Gross"1 Surgery, etc., etc.

                                     Philadelphia, Dec. 5, 1863.
   Dear Sir—I am rejoiced to find  that at length  an association  has
 been formed in  Boston, headed by  some  of the  most distinguished
 physicians in that city, for the purpose of presenting more  fully than
 has hitherto been  done to Congress, the claims of Dr. William T. G.
 Morton, as the discoverer of ether as an amesthetic agent.   Consider-
 ing the inestimable blessings which the labors of this gentleman have
 conferred  upon the human race in the prevention  and mitigation of
 pain in surgical operations, in the investigation of injuries and diseases,
 and in the pangs of  childbirth, it is amazing that Dr.  Morton  should
 not have received, long  ago,  some substantial acknowledgment of  the
 value of his services.  He has spent, not only his time,  but his money ;
 in fact his all, in the prosecution  of his discovery, the greatest, beyond all
 doubt, in the healing art, since  the days of  Jenner.   There is probably
 hardly a family in any civilized country in the world that hns not enjoyed
 its blessings, and it is  therefore but right  and proper that the people,
 through their national representatives,  should bestow upon its author a
 suitable  reward,  at least  equal  to that  which the  British Parliament
 voted to the immortal discoverer of vaccination.   The American Con-
 gress should act promptly in the matter;  Dr. Morton  is no longer a
 young man,  and it would be a crying shame to let it  be  said of one
 who has so greatly benefited mankind,  that he had lived and  died neg-
 lected by his fellow  citizens.   The horrors of the present war  are in
 some degree mitigated by the fact that the  use of ether and chloroform
 almost deprives  of suffering  the operations rendered  necessary  by
 gunshot  wounds.  Indeed, there is  reason to believe that it  not only
 prevents pain, but  is  instrumental in saving many lives.
   Hoping that your association will be able to accomplish the laudable
 object for which  it was instituted,
                 I am, dear sir, very respectfully,
                             Your friend and obedient servant,
                                             S. D. GROSS,  M. D.
   Dr. John  Ware, Chairman  Executive Committee, etc.

           Resolutions of tlie Academy of Medicine,  Cincinnati, Ohio.
      Hall  of the  Academy of Medicine, Cin., Dec. 21.  1863.
  At a regular meeting of the  Cincinnati Academy of  Medicine, held
this  evening, Dr. John F.  White read a communication from the Ex- 
7*
 "cutive Committee of the Morton Testimonial Association, which is
  aboring to secure some suitable recognition on the part of Congress, of
  he value  of the inestimable gift of Annst/iesia to the world, to W. T.
  t. Morton,
   A^fter some remarks it was
   Resolved.  That it is the opinion of this Academy of  Medicine,  !,hat
  Congress  should  make  a  suitable pecuniary compensation  to  Dr.
  kforton as a  testimonial for ihe discovery of the ana'sllietic  power
  >f ether;  and that this resolution be forwarded to the Executive Com-
  nittee, properly signed.
                             EDWARD B. STKVKNS, M. I).,
                                           Corresponding Secretary.
   R. R. aMcIlvaixe,  M. D., President.

                            Dki.lkkoxtaine,  Ohio, Dec. L\">, 18(i.'!.

   Gentlemen—Being fully satisfied of the merits of the claim of  Dr.
 A .  T.  G. Morton for the discovery of  the successful application  of
 ithereal vapor as a pain-subduing agent, by which so much human suf-
 fering has  been and may be prevented, that  he is jnstlr entitled to a
 ■ ubstantial public compensation  as  a testimonial for the benefits con-
 erred upon mankind, he  is therefore authorized to present this to out
 ■ipresentatire of the 4th Congressional District  of Ohio, J.  H. McKin-
 u-y, Esq.,  with the request  that he use  his  influence and  vote for a
 reasonable compensation to be  paid to Dr. Morton  for the benefits of
 riis discovery.
                             Respectfully, etc.,
                                          W. D. SCARFF,
                      Vice President Bellefontaine Medical Society.

                      University of Michigan,  Ann  Arbor, )
                                              March 1,  IS64.   )

  Dear Sir—I  send to you by the same  mail with  this,  a  petition to
 Congress in behalf of Dr. Morton, signed by nearly all of my colleagues
 n the  Faculty  of the Department  of Science, Literature  and   Arts
 'rofessor Palmer  will,  T understand, forward  one on  behalf of the
 dedical Faculty.
  It  seems to me that Congress, as a matter of simple justice  omdit to
remunerate Dr.  Morton.   The benefits conferred upon the  world by his 
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discovery Cannot be estimated ;  and it would be  a standing rebuke to
us that this great nation should fail tc do him justice.
                               Very truly yours,
                                      .JAMES C. WATSON,
                                     Director of tiie Observatory.
   Dr. John Ware,  Boston, Massachusetts.

   More than one hundred other letters have been received.


   The testimony upon which this claim was supported,  whether tried
by the rule of quantity or quality, was never equaled nor surpassed in
behalf of any previous discoverer.
   On motion of Mr. Hooper, of Mass., the  subject was referred to the
committee of ways and means on the     day of February, 1864, and
on June  6th  the  committee reported the following  item in bill 506,
section eight:
   " Sec.  8.   And be it further enacted, That  the Secretary  of the
Treasury be,  and he  is hereby, authorized and directed co  pay, out of
any money in the  treasury not  otherwise appropriated, to Doctor W.
T. G. Morton, for  the discovery and introduction of anaesthetic  agents,
and for their use in the army and navy of the United States, the sum
of two hundred thousand dollars."
   The bill was read  twice, committed to the whole House on the  state
of the Union,  and ordered to be printed.  But when it came up for
final action, it shared the same fate that had attended it on  all previous
occasions.  To use a political term, it was killed.
   Thus the matter was dismissed by  Congress after  Dr. Morton had
waited and  worked  with fruitless efforts for  eighteen years, and had
expended a large sum of money to secure remuneration from the Gov-
ernment  whose army and navy had been so signally benefited.
   If this measure failed, backed as it was by so  many friends,  and by
all that truth and eloquence could  urge, at a time when  the value of
his services in  lessening pain and saving life is so strikingly manifest,
it  is fair  to  presume that Dr. Morton has no  hope of gaining any
remuneration  from Government.   He now stands before the  world
penniless and poor ;  his time, business and fortune all given to  perfect
this discovery, and  to gain that recognition which  justice to himself and
his family demands.
   In  \Tiew of  the inconsideration or  indifference that  Congress has
manifested towards this measure, few who are familiar with the trials 
so
and expenses of urging a claim upon the Government,  will still desire
to see Dr. Morton, with a mind tossed by anxiety and chafed with want-
continue these fruitless efforts; but all  will agree that  the public, who
have been, and must continue to be, benefited to an  untold extent, shall
return to him the money he  has expended in conferring so priceless a
boon upon suffering humanity. 
          PROCEEDINGS
                        OF THE
MEDICAL SOCIETY  OF  THE  COUNTY OF  ALBANY.
   A special meeting of the Medical Society of the county of Albany,
 was  held  in the  Common Council chamber,  Monday, October  10th,
 1864, at 3 p. m.
   The President,  Dr. Peter McNaughton, after calling the meeting to
 order, announced  that the  Society had been convened for the purpose
 of meeting with Dr. Wm. T. G. Morton,  of  Boston, who would address
 the  Society upon  the  origin and  progress of the  Discovery  of
 Etherization.
   Dr. Morton was then introduced by the President, and proceeded to
 give an  account of those  experiments that  enabled  him to detect the
 anaesthetic properties of ether,  his early experiments upon his  own pa-
 tients, his first operations iu the public hospitals, and the incredulity and
 hostility of the Profession to the use of the discovery.
   He proceeded further to show that  the discovery had been  a source
 and  cause not of profit or emolument  to him, but  of labor, anxiety, and
 heavy and ruinous expense and loss.   The  anaesthetic agent  was as-
 sailed ; it was represented as  ruinous to the human  constitution, and
 often fatal  to life.   The public were  warned against  its  use—and he
 also  stated that he had devoted years of his life, his patrimonv, and all
 his past earnings and credit, to putting down and  disabusing the public
 of the falsehoods thus industriously circulated to its prejudice;  that the
 discovery is now used throughout the  civilized  world ;  that it is used in
 all the hospitals of the United States, and by all the surgeons in the
 U. S. Army; that he has himself visited the principal battle-fields and
 administered it personally to many thousand patients,  and that no one
can estimate its value in a  single battle.
  That his claims  for compensation upon the United States have been
examined by committees  of Congress,  and they have made several
 reports, most fully  sustaining his claims over all other contestants for the
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honor of the discovery ; and that the claim has been through the vari-
ous legislative, executive and  administrative departments of  the Gov-
ernment, and repeatedly urged upon Congress by petitions, memorials,
and resolutions from a large number of the members of the American
Medical Association, and surgeons of the principal  colleges and  hos-
pitals, scientific societies, professors, officers and  wounded soldiers of
the Federal army, etc., etc. ; and  that  all of these means have failed  to
secure him the slightest remuneration from the Government, and that,
under these circumstances,  the only mode of getting compensation left
him is by the National Testimonial,  already inaugurated by the Medical
Profession of  America,  and now being urged under the auspices of
the Morton  Testimonial  Association, a body of  highly  respectable
gentlemen.
   After Dr.   Morton closed his remarks, Dr.  Howard Townsoiid  rose
and staleel that he had no doubt thai he  would be expressing the senti-
ments of all  present, in recommending that the thanks of the Albany
County  Medical Society be conveyed to  Dr. Morton, for  the interesting
narration which he has just given of his experiments to establish tin:
fact of the value of Ether as an anaesthetic agent, and the  account of
the bitter experience which he was subjected to, in order to prove  its
practical value to the Medical Profession and to the world.
   Dr. Townsend further suggested, that a committee be appointed to
express  the views of the Society to Dr.  Morton, and also to arrange  a
plan for soliciting  subscriptions for the Morton Fund, which  fund  is
being raised  by a  society of eminent men of  Boston, established for
the purpose of thus substantially proving the high  appreciation which
Dr. Morton's fellow-countrymen have  of the great boon which he has
conferred upon  humanity, in  proving the value of Ether as an anaes-
thetic agent.
   On motion of Dr. S. Oakley  Vanderpoel, it was
   Reset ceil,  That a  committee of five be  appointed  to act upon the
views thus expressed by Dr. Townsend.
   The President appointed the following gentlemen  to act  on  such
committee:
   Drs.  Alden  March,  James If. Armsby, J. V. P.  Quackenbush,
S. Oakley Vanderpoel, Howard Townsend.
   There being no further business, the Society adjourned.

   X.t the annual meeting  of  the Society, held November 8th, 1864,
Dr. Townsend, Chairman, made a verbal report in behalf of the  com. 
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mittee appointed at  the special  meeting for the purpose  of raising  a
fund for the Morton  Testimonial.
  Dr. Townsend stated that the committee, after deliberation, determ-
ined that  an opportunity should be  afforded Dr. Morton of giving
an account to the citizens of Albany  of his discovery of Ether as an
anaesthetic agent.
  In accordance with which view, the  citizens of Albany were  invited
to attend in the  Chapel of the  Albany Female .Academy, where Dr.
Morton, to a highly respectable  audience, narrated  his experience in
discovering the  anaesthetic effect  of Ether,. and the  bitter experience
which he had been subjected  to in his endeavors to prove to the world
what a boon he  had  conferred upon humanity.
  After the meeting, it was determined by the committee to appeal to
the citizens for contributions  to the Morton Fund ; and the committee,
with great pleasure, report that the  appeal has been most generously
responded to, the sum of five  thousand  dollars having already been
contributed.
  On motion of  Dr. Vanderpoel,  the  Secretary .was  directed to trans-
mit an account of the  action  of  the Society to Dr. Morton.
                                 P. McNAUGHTON, President.
  J. R. Boulw.vre, Secretary.
Albany, N. Y.,  Nov. 30,  1864. 
                  PEOCEEDINGS
                          OF THE

ERIE  COUNTY  MEDICAL   SOCIETY,
                          OX THE
          MORTON  TESTIMONIAL.
                                   Buffalo, Feb. 4th, 1865.
  A special meeting of the Erie County Medical Society, was held at
their new rooms, in the Young Men's Association Buildings, Saturday,
Feb. 4th,  1S65, at 8  p. m., C. C. F.  Gay, M. D., President of the
Society, in the chair,  for the purpose of hearing some remarks by Dr.
Morton, on the origin  and use of practical Anaesthesia.   The Presi-
ident,  Dr. Gay, introduced Dr.  Morton  to the  Society, who pro-
ceeded to give a detailed account of the discovery by himself of Anaes-
thesia, and its use  in hospitals  and on  the  battle-field, and the  bitter
experience he had in its introduction.
  Upon the conclusion of his  remarks, Dr. Rochester  addressed the
meeting, saying that a testimonial should be given to the Doctor in re-
turn for his expenditures, and his discovery, and moved a committee of
eight be appointed by the  chair, to take action in the matter;  which
was adopted.  The  President  appointed  as such  committee,  Drs.
Rochester,  Harvey,  Samo,  Lothrop,  Barnes, C. C.  F.  Gay,  Geo. N.
Burwell and Julius F. Miner.
  Upon motion, the Society  adjourned till  Monday, 8 p. m.,  for the
further consideration of the subject.
  Adjourned meeting, Monday, Feb.  6th,  1865.  Dr. C. C. F. Gay,
President, in the chair.
  The committee  appointed at the meeting Saturday evening, made a
report, and offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted:
   "The  Committee  appointed to express, in a proper manner, the
thanks of this Society to  Dr.  Morton, for his full  and satisfactory 
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 account  of  his discovery  of the anaesthetic properties of  Sulphuric
 jEther, and his statement of  difficulties attending its introduction and
 use, submit the following report:
   "It appears beyond a doubt to medical men, that Dr. Morton is the
 discoverer of  the  anaesthetic properties of Sulphuric .iEther, and that
 he was the first to clearly demonstrate that the condition of Anaesthesia
 —a condition in which there is  an entire insensibility  to pain—could
 be safely and certainly  produced.   He is,  therefore, the practical
 originator of anaesthetic inhalation.
   " Morover we are indebted very greatly, if not wholly,  to his great
 personal efforts, not only for its discovery, but for its adoption and use.
 For, this most precious gift to humanity met at  first with incredulity,
 if not positive hostility, and no ordinary courage and energy were
 requisite to establish the use of an agent which has been of such incal-
 culable benefit to  humanity in preventing and suspending  pain.  And
 we may assume that its benefits  are not confined  to  its  being the most
 certain and safe means of  alleviating pain yet made use of in surgical
 practice, for  its very power to prevent pain has given increased success
 to severe operations in surgery.
   " It further appears, that for  this important discovery, taking rank
 among the most  important gifts to  humanity,—analogous to that of
 the great Jenner,—Dr. Morton has not only not received adequate com-
 pensation, but  has, in his  efforts  to  secure  its  adoption,  made great
 pecuniary sacrifices, for which he has repeatedly sought,  but has, as yet,
 failed  to  receive, a national  reward—such a reward  as has been,  in
 discoveries of a like nature but of less importance,  given by European
 governments.
   "The great value of the anaesthetic inhalation is now  fully estab-
 lished.   Thousands of painless operations have fully demonstrated its
 benefits, and  its safety.   It has robbed  surgery of its terrors.   A great
 amount of human suffering, which once  seemed inevitable, is  by its
 power wholly prevented.   As a  profession we daily witness its power
 and  its benefits;  we  are  therefore daily reminded of  him,  who first
 demonstrated the safety and practicability of anaesthetic inhalation and
 established its practice.   To him  we are indebted  for this great benefit,
 and to him is due the warmest gratitude of mankind.  We therefore
recommend the passage of the following resolutions:
   " Resolved,  That the thanks of this  Society are  hereby  tendered to
 Dr. Morton, for his clear and satisfactory statement, in which  he has
placed beyond  doubt  his  claims as the originator and introducer of
anaesthetic inhalation. 
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   "Resolved, That inasmuch as he has failed of national recompense,
we commend this appeal to the public to conipen.-aie him for the sacri-
fices he has made in establishing his claim, and especially we urge upon
this  community to contribute to the testimonial, in order that a most
beneficial discovery inav not be made a  came of pecuniary loss  to the
discoverer."
   The committee was empowered to sign a call, inviting the citizens of
Buffalo, to hear Dr. AMorton give an account of the discovery and intro-
duction of aether and  chloroform, and their use in hospital  and army
practice, as witnessed by himself, and further to  make  appeals to them
for contributions  to  the  .Morton Testimonial, in accordance with the
plans already adopted in other cities.
   On motion, the Society adjourned.
                               LEON F. HARVEY, Secretary.

   In  accordance  with the above proceedings, the citizens  of  Buffalo
were invited to attend in the  chapel  of  the Buffalo Female  Academy,
where Dr. Morton, on being  introduced  by  Dr. Rochester, gave his
interesting lecture.  After the meeting, remarks, approving the move-
men), were made by the Honorable Millard Fillmore, and others, when,
on motion of Mr. Farnum, the chairman was authorized to appoint a
committee of citizens to act in  concert with the  medical  committee, in
Drocuring  subscriptions to the proposed testimonial.
   The citizens'  committee appointed consisted of:
   A Sherwood,  II.  A.  Richmond, William Dorsheimer,  Eben  C
Sprague, Charles D. Norton, Charles F. Wardsworth, James D. Sawyer
S. S. Guthrie.
   The result of the joint  applications  of these  committees is  highly
satisfactory,  between four and  five thousand dollars  having already
been contributed.
                                         G C. F.  GAY,
                  President Erie Co. Medical Society, Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
PROCEEDINGS
                            OF THE

MEDICAL  PROFESSION  OF DETROIT,
                            OX THE
            MOETO^T TESTIMONIAL.
   At a meeting of the Medical Profession of Detroit, held at the house
 of Dr. Cobb,  Saturday evening, May 12, 1865, Dr. Kane was called to
 the  Chair, and Dr. Noyes was appointed Secretary.  The  Chairman,
 after calling the meeting to order, announced that the profession had been
 convened for the purpose of meeting Dr. Morton, of Boston, who would
 address them on the origin and progress of Anaesthetic Agents.
   Dr. Morton then  proceeded  to  address  the meeting.  After  the
 remarks of Dr. Morton, it was moved that the undersigned be appointed
 a committee to express the views of the profession to Dr. Morton,  and
 also to  arrange a plan for soliciting  subscriptions for the Morton Testi-
 monial, which is being raised by a society of eminent men, for the pur-
 pose  of  thus  substantially proving the high appreciation  which  Dr.
 Morton's  countrymen have of the great boon which he has conferred
 upon humanity in the discovery of practical Anaesthesia.

   " The undersigned, a committee appointed at a special meeting of the
 Medical  Profession of Detroit, referred  to above, have  the honor to
 enclose to you a copy of  the proceedings on the Morton Testimonial,
 and to address you on this subject.
   "This discovery  is  in daily requisition throughout the civilized world.
 Every man  in or  out of the army is  liable to the misfortunes that
would make the use of it invaluable to him.  Every day the persons
who use this  discovery must  be  counted  by thousands.   Our whole
country, in its  vast  military and naval service, in its extensive hospital
and naval practice, is constantly receiving the immense benefits of this
discovery.  These have been conferred through Dr. Morton's labor and 
 anxiety, at a heavy ruinous expense and loss.   The Senate Report, No.
 89, 3rd Session, 37th Congress, on this subject, says : 'An account stated,
 supported bv satisfactory evidence, shows that Dr. .Morton  has expended
 in  money, time and sacrifice  of professional business, more than  two
 hundred thousand dollars, in  discovering, defending his discovery and
 his rights thereto, and  perfecting and giving the nation his pain-destroy-
 ing agent.'
   " By reference to the  report already  referred to, it will be seen that
 Dr. Morton's claims for remuneration have  been examined by various
 committees of  Congress, who  have made several  reports,  fully sustain-
 ing his right, over all  others,  to the honors  and emoluments resulting
 from this discovery;  and that  his claim  has passed through the various
 legislative, executive and  administrative  departments of  the  Govern-
 ment, and during the last eighteen years has been  repeatedly urged upon
 Congress by petitions and resolutions from the great bulk of the medical
 profession, scientific societies,  professors and surgeons of the principal
 colleges and hospitals, surgeons and officers of the Federal army;  and
 that all of these means  have failed  to secure him  the slightest remuner-
 ation from the Government, though several applications have been made
 Bincc the war commenced.
   " Under these circumstances, the public are under the greatest obliga-
 tions to do what the Government has failed  or been unable to accom-
 plish ;  and more  especially at a time when hi3 discovery is  brought
 into general use, and its great  value in lessening pain and saving life is
 so apparent.   We trust the  citizens of Detroit  will evince the same
 readiness that other cities have shown in contributing their share of the
 proposed fund.   This  is  due to one of  the most  praiseworthy objects
 ever presented  to our enlightened and patriotic citizens.  Such  contri-
 butions as any may be disposed to make, will be received by the follow-
 ing members of the Committee:
         S. G. aVrmor, M. D.,       Louis Davenport, .M. D.
         E. M. Clark, M. D.,       J. F.  Noyes, M. D.,-
         N. D. Stebbixs,  aM.  D.,     Z. Pitcher, M. D.,
         Morse  Steavart, M. D.,    L. H. Cobb, M.  D.,
         Edward Kaxe, M. D.,      William  Brodie, aM. D.
                                             Executive  Committee"

  The committee also invited the influential citizens out of the profession
to confer with them as to the most efficient means of accomplishing  the
end in view, when it was declared that Dr, Morton should  address  the 
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Board of  Trade, and  the citizens generally.  In accordance with this
view, a public meeting was called, when Moses W. Field was  chosen
President, and Dr. Geo. Frelder. Secretary.   At an adjourned meeting
in the City Hall,  Dr.  Morton  addressed a highly respectable audience,
after which, on motion of N. W.  Brooks, the following gentlemen were
appointed a committee to act on the part of the citizens, in conjunction
with the Medical  Committee,  in soliciting subscriptions to the proposed
fund:
  11. P. Bridge,  R. W. King, Moses W. Field, John Hosmer, Alan-
son Sheley, Geo. F. Bagley.
  The result of these joint applications has been most satisfactory—over
three thousand dollars having  already been  subscribed.
                          EDWARD KANE, M. D.,
                                 Chairman of the Medical Committee.
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Proceedings of the  Medical  Profession  of Chicago, on the  Mor-
                         ton Testimonial.
                                        Chicago, Nov. 17, 1865.
     U a regular meeting of the Cook  County Medical Society, held
Nov ' 10  1SG5, at Room\No. 5,  Court House,  Chicago, the  following
named  -entlemen were chosen as an executive committee, to form a pre-
amble and draft resolutions in regard to bringing  more prominently  be-
fore the public the claim of  Dr.  W. T.  G.  Morton, of Boston, Mass.,
in respect to etherization, and securing a testimonial for the same :
     Jonathan W. Brooks, M. D., Ira Hatch, M. D., A. Groesbeck, M.  D.,
0. M. Ilevdock, M. D., J. P. Ross, M. D., T. D. Fitch, M. D., Charles
G. Smith, M. D.
                                         Thomas Bevan, Prcs.
     D. Mills Tucker, Sec.
     At a meeting of the Executive  Committee of the Chicago Medical
Society, appointed to express  the views of the Society to Dr. W. T.  G.
Morton,  of Boston,  and to arrange a plan for soliciting subscriptions to
the Morton  Tcstiinonial, the  following preamble and resolutions  were
unanimously adopted :
     Whereas,  After innumerable trials, made  during the last nineteen
years, it has been established to the satisfaction of the world  that the
inhalation of sulphuric ether may be safely employed  for • producing in-
sensibility to pain ;  and,
     Whereas, The attention of  the Medical Profession,  and, through
it, of the public generally, was directed to this fact by Dr. W. T. G.
Morton, of Boston,  who first practically  demonstrated that ether may
be  safely used  by inhalation for  annulling pain, in the Massachusetts
General Hospital,  where, on the  16th day of October, 1846, a severe
surgical  operation was  successfully performed by the late  Dr.  John C.
Warren, without pain to the patient, whilst under the influence of sul-
phuric ether, administered by Dr.  Morton; and,
     Whereas, Our National Government, whilst admitting the claims
of Dr. Morton, has failed to reward him for this great  service to  his
country and to  humanity ;
     Resolved,  That in the opinion of this Committee, the world is in-
debted to Dr. Morton, for having practically proved the value and safety
of ether, as an  anaesthetic agent, which directly led to the  use of chlo-
roform, and that he  is, therefore, entitled  to  the lasting  gratitude of
mankind.
     Resolved,  That we cordially  recommend to our fellow citizens  the
National Testimonial Fund, lately commenced in Boston, New York and
other cities, in  behalf  of Dr. Morton.
                                  JONATHAN* W. BROOKS, M. D.,
                                  IRA HATCH, M. D.,
                                  0. M. HEYDOCK, M. D.,
                                  A. GROESBECK, M. D.,
                                  CHARLES G. SMITH, M. D..
                                  J. P.  ROSS, M. D.,
                                  T. D. FITCH, M. D.,
                                             Executive CommiUK.
   Dated Chicago, Nov. 11th, 1865. 
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    The following invitation has been extended to the citizens of Chicago to listen to a Lecture
from Dr. Morton.



                          LECTURE.
Dear Sir :

           Dr. Moeton, of Boston, who first practically proved the value and safety of Ether
as an anaesthetic agent, is to give at the.....................................................
..............................on.................................Evening, November........
at 8 o'clock, an account of this great  discovery and an outline of the history of its use.  The
employment of this wonderful agent, after the late battles, in alleviating the sufferings of our
wounded  heroes, will  be described,  and its introduction in Europe, and the action  of the
learned societies and governments, their according the honor to our country, will be noticed.
A more intensely interesting history never  attended a  similar effort, and aside from the
importance of the subject itself to our race, all intelligent citizens will be amply repaid for
their presence by the details of those  struggles and sacrifices made by the  indefatigable
author of this great remedy.

    The attendance of  yourself and family is respectfully invited.

                         Rush  Medical  College.
Professor Daniel Brainard, M. D.                    Professor De Laskie Mill«r, M. D.
Professor J. V. Z. Blaney, M. D.                    Professor  E. Ingalls.
Professor J. Adams Allen, M. D.                    Professor R. L. Rea, M. D.
Professor J. W. Freer,  M. D.                        Professor E. Powell, M. D.

                       Chicago  HMedical  College.
Professor H. A. Johnson, M. D.                      Professor Edward Andr«ws, M. D.
Professor Wm. H. Byford, M. D.                    Professor John H. Hollister, M. D.
Professor F. Mahla, M.  D.                           Professor J. S. Jewell, M. D.
Professor Ralph N. Isham, M. D.                    Professor  O. M. Heydock, M. D.

                       Chicago  .Medical  Society.
Thomas Bevan, M. D.,  President.                   D. D. Wait, M. D.               '
Swayne Wickersham, M. D.                        Jas. P. Ross, M. D.
A. Groesbeck, M. D.                               L. D. Clarke, M. D.
N.Loverer, M. D.                                  Robert S.  Addison, M. D.
[ra Hatch, M. D.                                  N. G. Bogue, M. D.
Charles G. Smith, M. D.                            T. D. Fitch, M. D.
Edward L. Holmes, M. J).                          J. W. Brooks, M. D.
M. M. Magoffin, M. D.                              J. P. Lynn, M. D.
P. L. Macdonald, M. D.                            B. M. McVickar, M. D.
D. R. Dyeke, M. D.                                W. W. Allport, M. D.
John Barbour, M. D.
                          University  of  Chicago.
Rev. John C. Burroughs, D. D.,  President.             Professor  J. W. Stearns.
Professor Alonzo J. Sawyer, A. M.                  Professor John C. C. Clark*.
Professor J. O. Hudnutt.                           Professor Alonzo J. Howe, A. M.
Professor AVm. Matthews, A. M.
Rev. Z. M. Humphrey, 1). D., First Presbyterian Church.
Rev. R. AV. Patterson, 1). I)., Second       "
Rev. Arthur Swazev, Third                '■
Rev. Alfred Eddy, Olivet                 "
Rev. D. X. Junkin, .North                 "
Rev. Robert Patterson, I). D., Reformed    "
Rev. AVm. AV. Pattou, D. D., First Congregational Church.
Rev. Henry J. Whitehouse, Bishop of Illinois, Cathedral.
Rev. P. B. Duffield, Chaplain to Bishop of Illinois.
Rev. Robert H. Clarkson, St.  James1 Church.
Rev. Clinton Locke, Grace Church.
Kev. H. N. Bishop, D. D., St. John's Church.
Rev. C. E. Cheney, Christ Church.
Rev. Wm. AV. Everts, D. D., First Baptist Church.
Uev. E. J. Goodspeed, Second           "
Uev. O. H. Tiffany, D. IX, Grace Church.
Rev. R. M. Hatfield, Wabash Avenue Church.
Rev. Robert Collyer, Unity Church.
Rev. AV. H. Ryder, St. Paul's Church.
Rt. Rev. James Duggan,  D. D., Oatho'ic Bishop of Chicago
Rev. Willis Lord, D. D.,  Theological Seminary.
His Honor J. B. Rice, Mayor of Chicago.
Luther Haven,  Collector of the Port of Chicago
J. Y, Scammon.     Stephen F. Gale.     \]. n  Crosby 
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     A\t a meeting of citizens, called at the  house of Lieut. Gov.  Brosn,
to meet Dr. Morton, of Boston,  that gentleman  gave a very interesting
history of his trials and difficulties in  the introduction of his discovery
of the  anaesthetic  properties of etlier, his efforts to obtain, through Con-
gress, remuneration for the money  he  has expended, and the appeal  of
the Medical Profession to  the public,  to do what  the Government has
failed to do.   After some remarks  by  gentlemen present, on motion  of
Luther Haven, Esq., Collector of the Port,  the following citizens were
appointed a Committee to act in concert  with  the  Medical Committee,
already raised, in  presenting  this subject to the  citizens of Chicago  for
the purpose of securing the end  proposed:
     Luther Haven.
Chas. Walker.
Louis Wahl.
Eli Bates.
D. J. Ely.
W. H. King.
J. C. Dore.
Geo. Watson.
Charles H. Brown.
Edwin Hunt.
E. L. Jansen.
J. S. Turner.
Geo. C. Walker.
W. Munger.
C. G. Hammond.
 E. C. Lamed.
 Mark Skinner.
 A. F. Mack.
 Henry Greenbaum.
John C. Burroughs, D. D.
John V. Ayer
T. B. Blackstone.
 W. W. Boyington.
 B. V. Page.
 B. W. Raymond.
Nelson Tuttle.
A. Gibbs.
 L. B. Sidney.
P. L. Underwood.
W. W.  Farwell.
    The appeal has been most generously responded to,  about fifteen
thousand dollars having already been raised.
                          JONATHAN W. BROOKS, M.  D.,
                                        Vtoirman of Joint Committee 
          SUBSCRIPTIONS

                       TO THE

MORTON   TESTIMONIAL.
   MASSACHUSETTS.

        BOSTON.

Ames, Oliver & Sons.
Appleton, Chas. H.
A friend,  by J.  J. May.
Andrews, Wm. T.
Austin, Ed.
Ames, Oliver
Andrews, Wm. T.
Atkins, E.
Amory, C.
Adams, C. Frederick
Baldwin,  A. C.
Bradlee, Sam'l
Borlond,  John
Barker, E.
Bigelow,  E. B.
Bryant, J. F.
Bird, John A.
Beal, James H.
Bates, John D.
Bigelow,  J. AV.
Blackburn, Geo.
Bullard, Wm. S.
Barnard,  George M.
Brooks, P. C.
Burrage,  J. C.  «
Blanchard, Edward
Bowditch, Mrs. E.  B.
Bacon, D. G. M. B.
Bayley, J. P.
Bates, B. E.
Brimmer, M.
Cushing, Lemuel
Curtis, B. R.
Chandler, John
Clark, C.  AV.
Codraan, Charles
Codman, Edward
Codman, C. R.
Codraan, John  Amory
Cabot, Edw. C.
Callander, Henry
Cabot, Samuel
Cuphing, J. G.
Colby, Gardner,
Chick ering, T. E.
Chandler, W.
Dehon, William
Dexter, P. Gordon
Dorr, Chas. H.
Drake, Tisdale
Eaton, AV.
Eldridge,  E. B.
Ellis, Jonathan
Endicott.  W., Jr.
Fay, Richard,  Jr.
French, Jona.
Forbes, R. B.
Fraziar, A. A.
Francis,  Nathaniel
Faxon, Geo. N.
Fearing, Thacher. & Co.
Foster, John
Fiske, P. S.
Gardner,  John L.
Gray, J.  C.
Greene, Miss S.
Glover, Jos. B.
Gardner,  J. L., Jr.
Goodwin, Ozias
Gardner,  Geo. A.
Gardner,  G.
Gardiner, W. II.
Greenleaf, It.  C.
Greenough, W. W.^
Gardner,  Jeseph P.
Grant, M. P.
Hunnewell, James
Hammond, S:#n'l
Homer, Peter  I.
Hall, M. L.
Howes &  Crowe!)
Horton, AATm.  H.
Hooper, AAr. Sturgis
Howe, Solomon H.
Harris, X.
Heard, A.
Howe, Geo.
Howe, Thomas
Hammond, (.aid. G.
Johnson,  Ebenezer
Jeaes, David
Kuhn, G. H.
King, Edward
Kimball, Daniel
Kindrick, Wm. W.
Kimball,  George
Lyman, Arthur T.
Lombard, J.
Lawrence, Amos A.
Loring, Mrs. E.
Lawrence, James
Little, James L.
Lawrence, Abbott
Lee, T.
Loring, A. M.
Lyman, Charles,
Lodge, J. E.
Lodge, G. H-
Larkin, Stackpole & Co.
Lawrence, T. B.
Lyon, John E.
Munroe, Wm.
Mixter, Charles
Mason, AVm. P.
Mudjee, E. R.
Messenger,  G. AV.
Merrick, P.
Mason. Charles
Minot, Geo. R-
Matthews, W.
May. F. AV. G.
Maynard, W.
Nickerson, Sereno D.
Xickersou, F.
Ness, M. V.
Nickerson, Edw. G.
Naylor & Co.
Nash, Nath. C.
Plympton, Henry
Parker, Wm.
Patterson, E., Jr.
Peirce. A.
Perkins, A. T.
Perkins, T.  Henry
Perkins, T. D.
Pickering, H. AV.
Parker, Richard T. 
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Pierce, T. AV.
Parkman,  G. F.
Rotch, B. S.
Kice, Alex. H.
Rice, Edward E.
Reed, Sam'l G.
Read, James
Russell, Sam'l H.
Richardson,  Geo. C
Richards,  W. B.
Eastman, C. J.
Rice, Lewis
Revere, Joseph AV
Shadwick, C. C.
Sigourney. Henry
Sturrs. .lolm
Spooner, AV. B.
Sprague, AVm.
Sayles,  Maria F.
Stedman, Josiah
Seeirreave. J. T.
Shaw,  Mrs. R.  G.
SheatV,  Wm.
Sturgis, W. P.
Shaw,  G.  H.
Sears,  J. N.
Sears, David
Sargent, Turner
Shimmen, Eliza
Simmons,  Geo.  W.
Simpson, M.'II.
Sleeper, Jacob
Shaw,  Quincy A.
Sturgis, Robert  S.
Thayer, Mrs. J. E.
Tilden,  C. L
Tucker, A.
Tucker, AV. AV.
Tilden,  Geo. AV.
Turnbull,  G.
Upton,  George B.
AA'ales, Mrs. and Miss
AVhituey,  N. D.
AVaterson, Robert
Witt. AV. AV.
Wales, T. B. &  Co.
AVhitney,  D. R.
Wade,  R. S.
Welhuell, John G.
Wade,  R.  I.
AVinslow, Geo. S.
AVigglesworth, E.
AVhitman & AVright
Whitney, Joseph
Wright, Eben
Wright, J. H.
Wright, John S.
Wills,  Charles
     FALL R1VEH.

Borden, Richard
Borden, JelVerson
Durfee,  Nathan
Durfee,  F. B.
Slado, Jonathan
Slierman, Richard M.
Stevens, Julia A. B.
Voting, M. B.
Allien,  Otis
Agcr, J. ('.
Burke,  AVm. A.
Burbank, Samuel
Livingston, AVm. K.
Meadowcraft, .lames
Nesmith, John
Nesmith, Thomas
Patch,  C. B.
Talbot, C. P.

    NEWBURYPORT.

Coffin,  Chas. H.
Hale, Josiah L.
Hale, Mrs. S. W.
Lunt, Charles
Chase, N. D.
Tapley, A. M.
Taplcy, F. P.

    NEW BEDFORD.

.Arnold, James
Anthony, Caleb
Anthony, D.
Bourne, J., Jr.
Baxtlett, Geo. F.
Clifford, John H.
Delano, J. 0.
Greene, D. R.
Grinncll, Jos.
Hathaway, Wm., Jr.
Hathaway, F.  S.
Hathaway, Thos. B.
Hathaway, B.
Hermance,  Gee., Jr.
Howland, Sylvia A. (by
  Win. Gordon.)
Howland, Matthew
Howland, Abm. S.  S.
Howland,  G.,  Jr.
Jones, Edward C.
Mandell, T.
lVrrv,  Jolm H.
Koti-'h,  Wm. J.
Swift, Jr., Jr.
Stowc, Abraham S. 8.
Swift,  W. ('. N.
Taber,  AVm. C.
Thompson, James D.
Allen, JohnFiske
Bertram, John
Brookhouse, R., Jr.
Cunven, James B.
Cabot, J. 0.
Emmerton, E.
Fabens. Chas.  H.
Hunt,  AV.
Lord, N. J.
Miller, Chas. H.
Nichels, John H.
Peabody, F.
Putnam, Jacob
Poor, Henry
Pickman, AV. D.
Peabody, Geo.
Rogers, R.  I.
Ropes, C.  A.
Silsbee, John B.
Silsbee, J. H.
Stimpson, J. C.
Upton, James
Webster, John
West, B.  A.
Albor, C.
Baylies, Edmund
Gushing, S. G.
Field, Albert
Hale, Artemas
Hartshorn, Jesse
King, S. B.
Morton, Marcus
Morse, Lovett
Mussey, John
Newbury, Thompson
Stetson, Nahum
AVishing, E.
AVhittenton Man. Co.

      WORCESTER.

Bullock, A.  H.
Conant. Edwin
Coes, Lainy
Coes, A. G.
Crampton, G. 
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Curtis, A.
Davis, J.
Dewey, F. H.
Lemoy, J. A.
Moore, P. L.
Smith, Chas.  W.
Tcney, J. A.
Washburne, Chas.
Washburne, Ichabod
AVcllington,  T. W.
        MAINE.

        AUGDSTA.

Bradbury, J. W.
Bartlett, E.
Cony, Samuel
Coburn, Abner
Kennedy, Mrs. Dr.
Lombard, A.
McCollum, Duncan
Nason, E. A.
Rice,  N.  D.
Smith, Edwin. Esq.
Stanley, G. W.
Williams, Joseph H.

         HANGOR.

Bangor House
Billings, <3.
Brown, Walter
Bugbce,  David
Dale, Samuel AV.
Dwinez, Rufus
Edy, Jonathan
hlgery, Thomas N
Field, Timothy
Hathaway, Geo. & Chas.
Hodgman, T.  H.
Jewett, G. K.
Littlefield, James
O'Donohue, James
Pickering, G.  II.
Roberts, A. M. & Son
Stetson, Isaiah
Sandford, Chas. B
Thaxter, Sidney
Thompson, A.
White, J. C.
Wing, A. A.

          BATH.

Clark, F.
Drummond, Wm. & Jas.
Houghton Bros,
Moses, AV. V.
Morse, J. P.
Oliver, Moses
Patten, John
Patten, G. E. R.
Patten, Jas. F.
Patten, Geo. F.

       BELFAST.

Johnson, R. C.
Johnson, A. AV.

       GARDINER.

Burgess,  Geo.
Bradstreet, Wm.
Whitmore, N. M.

      PORTLAND.

Billings, L.
Brown, Warren
Brown, J. B.
Bacon, D. M.
Chase, AV.
Churchill,  E. & Co.
Clark, C.  S.
Cram, R.
Cummings,  N.
Cutler, Isaac M.
Curtis, Ezra, Jr.
Coyle, J. B.
Deering, Mary L.
Dana & Co.
Deblois, Thomas A.
Dana, J. II.
Dyer, J. W.
Dornell, J. B. (by H. S.)
Farmer, J. L.
Folles, C.
Fox, Edward
 Gerrish, Oliver
 Greeuough, Byron
Husey, F.  C.
Hersey, T. C.
Jones, Thos. R.
 Jose, H. N.
Kimball,  AV.
Little, H. J.
Libbey, H. J.
Lynch, J.
 McCobb,  Jas. T.
 Miller, X.  J.
 Molton, AV.
 Poyson, H. M.
 Richardson, Israel
 Rand, J.
 Richardson, F. P.
 Spring, Andrew
Spring, Sam'l E.
Steele, F.
Sturdevant, Cyrus
Thomas, AV. AV.
Tyler, Samuel
AVoodman,  Geo.  W.
AValker, J.
AVood, Rufus E.
      ROCKLAND.

Fessenden,  Samuel C
Williams, Timothy

      THOMASTON.

Elliot, John
Gilchrist. Levi B.
Humphrey, Heury B
Ludwig, M. R.
O'Brien, Edw.
Ourebe.k, James
Prince, C.
Robinson, Susan
Stetson, AA'illiani
Singer, Wm.
Stott, John
Watts, Samuel
 NEAV HAMPSHIRE

     PORTSMOUTH.

Austin, Daniel
Robinson, Chas.
Burroughs, 0.
Cotton, Leonard
Cash, J. P. L.
Tredick, J. M.
Haven, Geo. W.
Jones,  W. P.
Jennis, R.
Jones,  Albert
Ladd, Mrs. H.
March, Clement
March, John P.
Pierce, D. H.
Robinson, C.
    NEW YORK.

       ALBANY,

Amsdell,  Geo. ,r
Anable, Samue.
Armstrong, C. W.
Barnard,  F. J.
Banks & Bios.
Baker,  Ellis 
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Boyd, D. J.
Burt, Chas. A.
Chamberlain, Frank
Corning, Erastus
Corning, Erastus, Jr.
Crook, Thos.P.
Douglas, John
De Witt, Wm. II.
Dawson, George
Kiison, Franklin K.
Friend Humphrey's Sons
Gansevoort. Peter
Hendrick,  James
Jenkins, C. M.
Johnson, R. J.
Kidd, James
Lansing. C. B.
Lansing A. Co., Henrv
Merchant,  L. & W.
McCoy, E. B.
Newton, AVillUm.
Olcott, Thomas W.
Orr,  David
Prentiss, E. P.
Pruyn, John  A'. L.
Preston, AVm. S.
Pumpelly,  H.
Ransom, Albion
Redrield, Chas. B.
Reynolds,  Dexter
Root, J. G.
Ransom, S. H.
Reade, M.  H.
Schuyler,  Thomas
Strong, Wm.  N.
Steele & King
Sumner, Alanson
Shepard k, Co., A.  D.
Shear, Packard & Co.
Thomas, Wm. G.
Townsend, Franklin
Tillinghast & Co., Wm.
Tweddle, John
Ten Eyck, X.
Taylor Sons, John
Thatcher & Co.. Geo. P.
A'an  Rensselaer, Stephen
Aran  Santvoord, A.
Van  Heusen & Charles
A'an  Sickler, R. M.
A'onburgh, Isaac W.
Van  Antwerp, AVm. M.
Viele, Maurice E
AVilliams,  C. P.
Wilson, Lansing k,  Co.
Wickes, E.
Wilao, Alfred
AVhite, Douglas L.
    NEW YORK CITY.

Armstrong \ Son
Astor,  AVm. B.
Alstvne, John
Arthur, E. II.
Boorman,  J.
Belmont, August
Ball, Black & Co.
Bishop, J.
Bulkely, Sheldon & Co.
Brown, James
Bridge, John
Brewer & Caldwell
Babcock & Milnor
Bryson, P. B.
Breeden, B. F.
Clarlin. II. B.
Cornell, J. B. A W. W.
Collennet & Atherton
Carey,  John,  Jr.
Collins, StaevB.
Coleman, W.  T. & Co.
Co.ldington. T. B.
Cram,  AV.  W.
Colgate, Richard S.
Congreive, C.
Clark,  Wilson & Co.
Care}-,  John J. »
Chancy, Henry
Connolly,  C. M.
Donaldson. James
Davis,  V. Augustus
Davis,  Thomas E.
Duncan, D.
Dubois, C.
Deven, Chas.  R.
Dolus,  T.  E.
Elv, A. K.
Field, Benj. II.
Fellows. Wm.
Fellows & Co.
Furniss, W. P.
Fraughtton, Eugene
Goodhue, Chas. C.
Griswold,  Geo.
Graves, E. Bovner
Grocsbeck, David
Gilbert, Clinton
Green, C. R.
Green, J. C.
Hewitt, Abram S.
Howland,  G.  G.
Hobson, G. G.
Hunt,  AVilson G
Henry, Smith k Town-
  send
Hoppin, Hamilton
Iseiin & Co.
I  Isliart, Brown
[  Johnston. John T.  »iM
'  Jewell. T.
|  Jones, Geo. F.
  Ketehum, Morris
j  Kernoehiwi, Joseph
,  Langdou,  E.
  Lorillard,  P.
  Lenox,.Ias.,(byJ.Browu9
  Lowe, A. A.
  Lambert,  Edward .t Co.
  Ledyard,  II.
  Lord, J. U.
  La Fargo, John
  Morgan, E. D. & Co.
  Maev, Josiah .v Sons
  Marshall,  Chas.  II.
  Merritt, Geo.
  Minturn, Edward
  Marsh, S.
  Mover, H. & F. W.
  Moore, C. B. AV. H. I.
  Minturn, R. B.
  New bold, Edgar
  Olrich & Co.
  Opdyke, Geo.
  Post, (Jeo. D.
  Penfold, John
  Penfold, AVm.
  Penfold, Edw
  Pell,  Alfred
  Piorrepont, Henry E.
  Ray,  Robert
  Suarcr, L. S.
  Spencer, C. L.
  Swan, Benj. E.
  Sampson,  Joseph
  Spencer, D.
  Sherman,  W.
  Stevens, John A.
  Sherman,  Collins & Co.
  Sanderson, E.  F.
  Smith, Gerritt
  Smith, Cornelius
  Stout, Mrs. A. G.
  The  Society of the New
    York Hospital (by Geo.
    P. Trimble, Pres.)
  The   Commissioners  of
    Emigration of the State
    of  New York (by  G.
    C.  Verplanck.)
  Trowbridge, D wight & Co
  Tiffany & Co.
  Trimble, Geo. T.
  Thome, Jonathan
  "Vyse & Son
  Wolfe, John David
  AVilmcring, AVm.  K. 
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Whitlock, B. M.
Walker, Joseph
White, W. Aug.
Willetts, E. M.
Watree, R. W.

        BUFFALO.

Adams, James
Allen,  Orlando
Altman & Co.
Atwater, E. M.
Bennett, D. S.
Brayley, James
Bullvmore, Richard
Cornell & Son, S.  G.
Derrick,  S. N.
Dobbins, D. P.
Dole, Thos. D.
Evans, J. C. & E. T.
Evans,  Charles W
Fargo, Wm. G.
Gates, G. B.
Glenny, Wm. H.
Graves, W. T.
Holloway, Isaac
Howard, R. L.
Ketchum, Jesse
Laverack, Wm.
Nims,  0. L.
Palmer, Everard
Pease, F. S.
Pease, Sheldon
Plempton,  L. K.
Fierson,  Edward
Prosser,  E. S.
Ramsdell, 0. P.
Rich, Andrew J.
Richmond, H. A.
Schoellkopp, J. F.
Shepard, S.
Sherman, R. D.
Sherwood, A.
Thompson, A. P.
Utley,  Horace
Vought, John H.
AVadsworth, Charles F.
Watson, S. V. R.
Wilkeson, Wm.
   RHODE ISLAND

       NEWPORT.

Burns, Mrs. Wm.
King, E.
Macomb, A. S.
Robeson, A.
     PROVIDENCE.
Adams, Seth, Jr.
Angell, Wm.  G.
Adir,  Alex. H.
Bradford, Taft&.Co.
Bailey, Wm. M.
Beckwith, A. W.
Brown, A. N.
Bowen, T. D.
Bullock, Julia
Barstow,  A.  C.
Brown, John Carter
Carpenter, Earl
Caswell,  Alexis
Comstock, Wm.
Corliss, Geo. H.
Duncan, David
Davis, Edmund
Dorrance, Wm. T.
Davis, Thomas
Goddard, Charlotte R.
Gorham,  John
Harris, C. F.
Harris, Edward
Harris, Avis  L.
Hill, F. J.
Hill, T. E.
Howard,  Geo. A.
Humphreys, James
Ives,  Anna A.
Ives, Robert H.
Jackson,  Benj. N.
King, Edward
Lippitt, Henry
Mason, AVm.
Mason, John  N.
Manton, Amasa
Mason, E. P.
Owen, Smith
Owen, George
Peck, A.  C.
Pearce, Edward
Pierce, Asa
Payne, Daniel
Potter, N. F.
Reynolds, Wm. H.
Rhodes, Jas.  T.
Richmond, G. M.
Sprague,  A. & W.
Smith, Jas. Y.
Slater, AVm.  S.
Seagreeve, Jacob T.
Taf't, Orray
Shepard,  Thomas P.
Slater, H. N.
Smith, Amos D.
Sprague,  Byron
Grosvenor, Wm.
Smith, Nathaniel
 Slater, H. N., Jr.
 Sturgis, Robert L.
 Tobey, Sam'l Boyd
 Thurber,  Dexter
 Wheaton,  S. B.
 AVaterman, Rufus
 Woods, M. H.


      MICHIGAN.
        DETROIT.
 Adams, T. K.
 Barker, K. C.
 Brooks & Adams
 Buhl & Ducharme
 Baglev, John J.
 Baldwin & Co., H. P.
 Benson, II. E.
 Buhl & Co., F.
 Buckley & Co.
 Campbell, G.
 Campbell, Linn & Co.
 Clark, J.  P.
 Davis,  Ira
 Dceltz, Bros., G.
 Dey, A. H.
 Emmons,  H. H.
 Farrand, J. S.
 Freedman,  Simon
 Ford & Philbrick
 Grout, J.  R.
 Hinman, A. B.
 Heavenrich Bros.
 Heineman, E. S.
 Hallock &  Son
 Hubbard, B.
 Hudson, E. W
 Hutchings, John
 Jones, A.
 Kanter, Edward
 Merrick A Son, E. G.
 Moore, Foote & Co.
 Merrill, Chas.
 Noyes, W.  R.
 Owen, John
 Parker, Willard
 Preston, David
 Parsons, P.
 Richardson, D. M.
 Stearns, Frederick
 Stephens & Co.,  John
 Trowbridge, Wilcox & Co.
 Town & Sheldon
 Tefft, W. H.
 Tillman, J.  W.
Whitney, David, Jr.
Whiting &  Co.. J.
Wight, H.  A. & S. a.
Waterman,  J. W. 
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      ILLINOIS.

       CHICAGO.

W. B. Ogden.
Gage, Waite & Co.
Weslev Munger.
D. J. Ely.
Hale k A\.yer.
Gilbert Hubbard & Co.
Tumor & Sid way.
N. K. Fairbauk.
Wirt Dexter.
Smith & Nixon.
Wahl Bros.
T. B. Blackstone.
Charles  H. Brower.
Hall, Kimbark & Co.
Philip AVadsworth.
AVoleott <A- Dore.
AV. T. Shufeldt & Co.
Ballentine,  Lawrence k
  Co.
Tribune Company.
Purington & Scranton.
Ilayden,  Kay & Co.
Chicago Republican Co ,
  (by A.  A.  Maek.)
H. Greenebaum & Co.
Geo. Walker.
Joseph T. Rverson.
Wm. Blair & Co.
Jesup, Kennedy & Co.
E. B. MeCagg.
John B. Turner.
Periv H. Smith.
H. W. Blodgett.
J. H. I'uuham.
W. E. Doggett.
J. & H.  Chapman.
G. i A. L. Lafiin.
Edward Ely.
T. .M. Avery.
W. B. Keen & Co.
Jesse Spalding.
Goss & Phillips.
Pearson, Avery & Co.
H. F. Eldred.
Ross & Gossage.
N. Ludington.
Hannah,  Lay k Qo.
F. B. Gardner.
Hiram AVheeler.
A.  B. Meeker.       ♦
L. B. Boomer.
Jus. C. Fargo.
Geo. K. Chittenden.
Tiioc. S. Dickenson.
Wm. A. Butters.
John L. Hancock.
C. B.  Goodyear.
Hibbard & Spencer.
Culbertson, Blair & Co.
Mimn £ Soott.
Matthew Larlin.
Larrabee \-  North.
AV.  II.  Kretsinger.
C. H.  Henderson k Co.
Mahlon D. Ogden.
B. M. Whipple.
Pollard, Doano A Co.
Chas. Dulneld.
John H. Foster.
Geo. L. Dunlap.
J. Beidler & Bros.
AVm. H. A- S. P. Luut.
Barrett, Arnold k Powell
J. II. MeVicker.
Jno. It. AValsh.
James  II. Hoes.
AVeber, Williams ,fe Fitch
Root k Cady.
Fox k  Howard.
Peter Page.
Holbrook k Parker.
Me Kind ley, Ingraham &
  Co.
M. Reineman.
Murry  Nelson & Co.
Jones & Small.
Edwin  Hunt & Sons.
T. J. Surdam &  Co.
P. H. Willard.
E. B. .Myers & Chandler.
Gilbert k Sampson.
Barton & Jones.
H. K. Elkins.
J. F, Temple.
Thos. H. Beebe.
A. H. Miller.
J. H.  Little.
Hubbard &  Hunt.
Charles Tobey.
F. D. Tator & Co.
Parker, Culton& Sprague
D. W.  Irwin.
Gilbert, Updike k Co.
W.  M.  Egan.
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Jones & Laughlin.
Leander Read.
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Lill & Diversy.
Downer, Bemis & Co.
John A. Huck.
Ilonry B. Miller & Son.
  Peter SchuUler.
  Tolman Wheeler.
  R.  T. Crane & Bros.
  Henry Fuller.
  R.  Somers.
  J. H. Wood.
  C.  L. Rice.
  Jacob Friedman.
  T. W. Baxter.
  John B.  AUvater.
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  C.  E. Olmslead.
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  0.  Mather Smith.
  M.  Talcott.
  Spruance it  Preston.
  A.  Wallbaum.
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  A.  E. Bishop.
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  John A.  Tyrrell.
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  Benj. F.  Russell.
  Collins k Burgie.
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  A.  E. Goodrich.
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  Andrew Brown.
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John L. Clarke.
Joshua R. Nichols.
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Philo Carpenter.
N. Matson.
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  Smith.
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Edwin C. Lamed.
Sam'l D. Clarke.
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