New Orleans, March 3 and 4, 1897. This date has been selected as it will permit visiting members to see New Orleans during the Carnival season, and will enable them to secure half-rate railroad transportation.

Candidates for membership should send their names, properly endorsed, to Dr. Robt. C. Myles, secretary, 46 West Thirty-eighth street, New York, or to Dr. W. Scheppegrell, Chairman Southern Section, so that they may be acted upon by the Council of the Society.

HISTORICAL DEPARTMENT.

ISAAC HENRY BARBER, M.D.

WHEREAS, Death has removed from our midst our friend, companion, and adviser, Isaac Henry Barber, M.D.;

Resolved, That in this loss, we of the Staff Association of the Kings County Hospital realize that a great bereavement has fallen upon us, and not only upon us, but the medical profession at large;

Resolved, That we place on record our sincere esteem for him as a man of splendid character, an indomitable worker, a courageous surgeon, a loving husband and father, a devoted citizen, having voluntarily offered his life for his country's protection. We thank God for his example and we commend his character to the youths of the day as worthy of their study and emulation;

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be engrossed and sent to the family of our late associate, and that a copy also be sent to the BROOKLYN MEDICAL JOURNAL for publication.

GEO. MCNAUGHTON.

P. L. SCHENCK.

JOHN A. ARNOLD, M. D.

We have to record the death of Dr. John A. Arnold, medical superintendent of Kings County Hospital, which occurred at Rockland, R. I., December 4, 1896.

Dr. Arnold was born in Rhode Island in 1845, and was, consequently, at the time of his death, fifty-one years old.

He was a member of the County Society since 1880, and en

joyed a large acquaintance in the local profession, by whom he was very highly regarded.

A more lengthened biography and portrait will appear in a future number of the JOURNAL.

THOMAS WILSON HENRY, M. D.

The present age is one of research and record of the past; this is true of every department of learning, the object in view being not alone to preserve that which may have been accomplished by those who have been, but to form some conception of their surroundings, and what it was necessary to contend with, in those early days, in order to maintain a good professional standing.

Thomas W. Henry was born in the city of New York June 17, 1796. His father, William Henry, died October 8, 1830, aged eighty years. His mother, Margaret - died March 14, 1830,

aged seventy-five years.

Dr. Henry's schooling was obtained in the private boardingschools of New York City. In 1818 he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, receiving the degree of M.D. in 1820. The college at this time was situated on Barclay street, and among those that graced its faculty were Professor William J. Macneven, Samuel L. Mitchill, Wright Post, David Hosack, Valentine Mott, John W. Francis, and John C. Osborn.

Of the thirty-seven students that composed the class of 1820, many of whom have risen to eminence in our profession, one was the late Isaac J. Rapelye, M. D., of Brooklyn, and the fifth president of the society.

Dr. Henry began the practice of his profession in the village of Brooklyn, soon after his graduation; as Brooklyn at that time did not extend much farther than the present city hall, the population being about 5000, one can understand how much choice there would be in selecting a place. It seems that Dr. Henry's office must have been at or near the present corner of Henry and Orange streets, as the old directories give his address at 65 Henry street.

A few of the writers of Brooklyn history have contended that the present Henry street was named in honor of the Henry family. The name of this street was chosen by the trustees of the village of Brooklyn, April 8, 1819.

As was the custom with the physicians who practiced medicine during the village life of Brooklyn, to have in connection

with their practice a drug store, Dr. Henry conducted for a number of years a drug store at the corner of Sands and Jay streets.

At the first annual meeting of the Medical Society County of Kings, held on April 8, 1822, Dr. T. W. Henry was elected a censor, which position he held until April, 1831; vice-president, 1827 to April, 1831; president, 1831 and 1832.

In 1832 he was elected an honorary member of the Medical Society State of New York.

During his administration as president of the society there were, admitted to membership: William G. Hunt; removed, 1856; died November 16, 1887. Ripley E. W. Adams; removed, 1845.

The records show that Dr. Henry was preceptor for the late George Gilfillan and Ripley E. W. Adams.

Dr. Henry was married on May 6, 1819, to Miss Sarah Leycraft Simonson of New Jersey, who died on December 28, 1823. A few years thereafter he married Miss Josephine Amanda Lyons of New York.

Two children by the first marriage, namely: William J. Bassett Henry, born, December 26, 1821; died, 1876. Charles Wilson Henry, born, December 21, 1823; died, 1895.

It is said of Dr. Henry by those who are still living, that he was a man of marked education, stern and conscious in his manner, ever ready to assist the sick and needy by his advice and treatment. His name is held in kind remembrance by the few who are still among the living and that knew of him.

WILLIAM SCHROEDER, M. D.

FOUNDERS OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

With this month's issue of the JOURNAL we present a reproduction in miniature of Branwhite's engraving of Samuel Medley's celebrated painting representing a group of the founders and early members of the Medical Society of London.

The engraving is familiar to the members of the profession accustomed to attend the meetings of the Kings County Society, in the rooms of which it has been an ornament for more than twenty years, having been removed with our other lares and penates from old Everett Hall.

During the past year new interest has been awakened in this picture in connection with the Jenner centennial, from the fact

that Edward Jenner is one of the characters represented in this historic group. While this fact is generally known, and has been frequently referred to, strange to say it is the rotund figure, wearing a cocked hat, that is generally taken for that of the world's greatest benefactor. There is hardly a print-store or collection of medical portraits where this prominent figure, which has been taken from the original group, cannot be found bearing the title Edward Jenner, M. D., F. R.S., etc., and the most prominent medical journal in Jenner's own land, and the home of the medical society represented, has catalogued Jenner with a cocked hat, in its long list of memorials.

As this picture was originally completed, Jenner's portrait was not included, and on the engraved plate some of the background had to be rubbed away in order to make space for it. The original plate, which is now in this country, plainly shows where and how the obliteration and insertion was made. Edward Jenner stands in the central background, to the left of the president (James Sims), with his left arm folded across his breast and holding a folded paper in his hand, evidently attentively listening to the address of John Coakly Lettsom (the Quaker doctor). It may be that memorable occasion when the society addressed Jenner on the subject of his discovery "in the warmest terms of congratulation and approval," and presented him with the gold medal of the society. We are told that Dr. Lettsom made the address on that occasion.

The London Medical Society was instituted in 1773, chiefly by the exertions of Dr. Lettsom and Dr. James Sims, and the latter was for many years its presiding officer. In Lettsom's "Hints," Vol. III., is to be found an interesting chapter, entitled, "Hints for the Establishment of a Medical Society in London," and in another place we find the "Statutes of the Medical Society of London; Instituted 1773."

Seated in a chair with a fiddle-shaped back (second from the left), keenly and critically observant of what Lettsom is saying, is William Woodville, whose business as head of the Smallpox Hospital and London's chief inoculator, Jenner's vaccination was destined to seriously injure, though he did eventually fall into line; and had, previous to 1802, vaccinated 7500 people. Unfortunately his early vaccinations were done with spurious virus and did much to discredit the value of the discovery in its infancy.

The other gentlemen represented in the picture, and who were all prominent in the organization of the London society, are,

beginning at the extreme left, Joseph Hart Myers, a prominent London practitioner, born of Jewish parentage in New York City.

Next to him, standing, is Edward Bancroft, afterwards Deputy Inspector-General of British Army Hospitals, and a distinguished writer on yellow fever, and other pestilential diseases. Then comes Dr. Woodville, and then, standing next Dr. Bancroft, is James Ware, the surgeon who did so much to raise his specialty of ophthalmology from the domain of quackery.

His

The next man, sitting, is Nathaniel Holmes, author of a "Treatise on Puerperal Fever," and other works. He was physician to the London Lying-in Hospital, and the Charterhouse, in the pensioner's burial-ground of which, he is buried. monument relates that "He practised medicine during a long course of years, with advantage to his patients and with honor to himself."

Standing between Messrs. Ware and Jenner, is Thomas Bradler, editor of the Medical and Physical Journal, 1794-1815.

Sitting next Dr. Holmes is Sayre Walker, also physician to the Lying-in Hospital, and distinguished as a gynecologist; and next comes (also seated) Sir John McNamara Hayes, InspectorGeneral of the Medical Department in the Ordnance, and as his name indicates, a native of Limerick.

James Sims and Edward Jenner have already been noticed. Then we have, seated, Robert Hooper, author of the "Medical Dictionary," "Physicians' Vade-mecum," and numerous other works. With Edward Ford, who is standing next Dr. Jenner, the writer is unacquainted.

Standing next, beyond the orator (Lettsom), is Charles Combe, one of the executors of Dr. Hunter, in founding the Hunterian Museum. Mr. Blair, who is standing next, is not identified, but William Babbington, the next in order, was one of London's celebrated physicians at that time. It was he who proposed to prescribe an emetic for one of his patients, an Irish gentleman, who expostulated, saying: "My dear doctor, it is of no use your giving me an emetic. I tried it twice in Dublin, and it would not stay on my stomach either time."

Next in order are Dr. John Haighton (sitting), lecturer at Guy's Hospital on "Physiology and the Laws of Political Economy," and likewise on the "Principles and Practice of Midwifery, including the Diseases of Women and Children." Then Robert John Thornton, the botanist; John Shadwell, who enjoyed the successive honors of being physician to Queen Anne and George