Cornell University, and entered the Albany Medical College, finishing at that institution in 1887. In 1889-90 he was a student in the medical department of the University of Berlin. He was appointed resident surgeon (1887) and surgeon (1891) in the Albany Hospital; Lecturer on Surgery (1892), Adjunct Professor of Surgery (1895), Albany Medical College; surgeon in Albany Hospital (1896); Professor of Abdominal Surgery and Gynecology, Albany Medical College (1900); major and surgeon, United States Volunteers, 1898, and in charge of surgical division of depot hospital at Fort McPherson, Georgia, during the Spanish-American War; member of the New York State Tuberculosis Commission; president of the board of trustees of the New York State Hospital for Treatment of Incipient Pulmonary Tuberculosis; member of the Pan-American Medical Congress; 10th, 11th and 12th International Medical Congresses; American Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; American Surgical Association; American Medical Association; Southern Surgical and Gynaecological Association; New York State Medical Society (president in 1899); Albany Historical Society. He was a valuable contributor to surgical journals.

MARTIN BUEL TINKER was born in Granville, Massachusetts, March 17, 1869, a son of Martin Phelps and Margaret Maritta (Smith) Tinker. He pursued his professional studies at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he received the degree of M.D. in 1893. He received the degree of S.B. from Harvard University in 1895, and the honorary degree of M.D. from the University of Berlin in 1899. He was Assistant in Physiology and Hygiene at Harvard, 1894-96; Demonstrator in Surgery and Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, 1897-1900; Resident Surgeon to Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1900-03; Lecturer on Surgery, 1900-08, Assistant Professor of Surgery, 1908-10, at Cornell University. He is a member of the American Medical Association, American Academy of Medicine, New York State Medical Society, of which he was president in 1916; American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie; fellow of the American College of Surgeons; member of the Sigma Chi Iota Nu Sigma Nu. His clubs are the Town and Gown, Country, and the University. In religion he is a Congregationalist, and in politics a Republican. Dr. Tinker married, May 4, 1905, Ethel Louise Bates, of Lima, New York.

ROBERT TUTTLE MORRIS, M.D., eminent surgeon of New York

City, Professor of Surgery in the New York Post-Graduate Medical College since 1898, and consulting surgeon to a number of hospitals, was president of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, in 1907, and is an author of note. Of exalted principles and fine nature, Dr. Morris exemplifies the noblest qualities of his profession, and of that sterling manhood which alone is the enduring foundation for high achievement.

Robert Tuttle Morris was born in Seymour, Connecticut, May 14,

1857, a son of Luzon Burritt and Eugenia Laura (Tuttle) Morris. His parents traced their ancestry to the first settlement of Connecticut, and his father, Luzon Burritt Morris, was for a number of years Governor of that State, while his mother was a well known author, writing under the pen name of E. L. M.

Robert T. Morris received a liberal classical education at the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Connecticut, and for three years pursued a course in Biology at Cornell University, from 1876 to 1879. He entered upon the study of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, graduating in 1882 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. From the time of his graduation until 1885, Dr. Morris practiced his profession in various clinics, part of the time in Europe, and for two years of this time was connected with Bellevue Hospital as a member of the house staff. In 1885 he established his office for private practice in the City of New York at No. 173 Fifth Avenue, and during the course of his career has acquired a foremost position in the ranks of surgeons of the City. Dr. Morris is Professor of Surgery in the New York Post-Graduate Medical College, which connection began in 1898, visiting surgeon to the PostGraduate Hospital, and consulting surgeon to a number of hospitals.

Dr. Morris is a member of many of the leading medical associations. In 1907 he was president of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He holds membership in the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Medical Association, the New York State and County Medical societies, the Bellevue Hospital Alumni Association, the Southern Surgical Association, the Surgical Society of New York, the College of Physicians and Surgeons' Alumni Association, the Psysicians' Mutual Aid Association, the New York Medical Union; also in the following: American Geographical Society, American Fisheries Society, Linnean Society of Natural History, American Forestry Association, Northern Nut Growers' Association, Sons of the Revolution, New England Society, Cornell Alumni Association; and belongs to the Metropolitan, Cornell University, Alpha Delta Phi, and Camp Fire clubs.

Dr. Morris has devoted much of his time to the field of medical research, and has written and published from time to time monographs on the results of his investigations. Various of his works have been adopted by the medical fraternities as text books for students. In 1886 Dr. Morris issued a treatise entitled "How We Treat Wounds To-day" (Putnams) which earned for its author enviable commendation. In 1895 he published "Lectures on Appendicitis," while his report upon the nature of appendicitis delivered at the meeting of the Pan-American Medical Congress in 1893 has commanded attention both at home and abroad. In 1910 he published "The Fourth Era in Surgery" (Saunders). Dr. Morris has also contributed to medical literature numerous papers, of which the following are selected for citation: