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DEARBORN 300 DEBUTTS in 1843 and sending the paper to the American Journal of Science in 1844 and another the following year, in which he de- scribed tracks that were probably those of a batrachian reptile. In 1847 he showed the track of a quadruped and in 1848 that of another species of quadruped. For twenty years he made drawings, many of them be- ing executed on stone, and he communicated with geologists abroad, publishing articles with numerous plates, from his drawings and from photographs, in the memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and under the auspices of the Academy of Nat- ural Sciences, Philadelphia. Every specimen obtained was submitted to him. Altogether he issued ten different memoirs during his life- time, on fossil footprints in the sandstone- of the Connecticut Valley, and after his death, in 1861, a quarto volume of 46 places and 61 pages of descriptive letter press, was pub- lished by Little, Brown and Coinpany, Boston, by the aid of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. He drew well and he wrote well and added much to the knowledge of his discovery, while he supported himself by the practice of medicine. Dr. Deane received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Amherst College in iS38 and he was a corresponding member of the natural history societies of Montreal and Boston, He was of a tall and commanding figure and had a well-knit and compact frame. His very walk conveyed an idea of strength. He died, apparently of typhoid fever, June 8, 1858, at the age of 57 years. Walter L. Burrage. ".ddress, Life and Character of Tames Deane, M. D." by H. I. Bowditcli, M. D., Greenfield, 1858, 45 pp., with bibliography. "Ichnographs from the Sandstone of the Con- necticut River," James Deane, M. D., Boston, 18C1. New .Amer. Cyclop., D. Appleton & Co., N. Y., 1865, vol. vi, 311. Dict'y of Amer. Biog. F. S. Drake, Boston, 1872. Files of the Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., 1837- 1855. Dearborn, Henry (1751-1829). The son of Dr. Simon Dearborn, a phy- sician of Hampton, New Hampshire, he, like his father, was educated to be a physician and practised many years at intervals in both New Hampshire and Maine, so that although better known as Gen. Dearborn, there can be no doubt that he should be included among the eminent medical worthies of America. He was born in Hampton, New Hamp- shire, February 23, 1751, and after having such school education as that small village afforded, studied medicine with Dr. Hall Jack- son (q. V.) of Plymouth, one of New Hamp- shire's remarkable physicians. Dearborn, after doing some practice for two or three years with Dr. Jackson, was entitled "Doctor" and settled at Nottingham Square, in New Hampshire, from 1772 till 1775, where he practised as a physician. Not- tingham Square was a little settlement in the town of Nottingham, on the turnpike road from Portsmouth to Concord. When the war broke out Dr. Dearborn gave up his prac- tice as a physician and followed with the troops of Gen. Stark to the Battle of Bunker Hill. When the Revolution was over, he bought a large tract of territory, then called Mon- mouth, in the district of Maine, a region which is now divided into the city of Gardiner and the towns of Monmouth, Litchfield and Riverside. His wife was Mary Bartlett of Nottingham, New Hampshire. Here, besides attending to his farm, he did a little medical practice, but was soon called away to become a man of prominence in the affairs of the nation. He became major-gen- eral in 1790, went to Congress for two terms, was secretary of war in 1801, was later on minister to Portugal, and collector of the port of Boston. With the breaking out of the War of 1812, President Monroe asked him to accept active service again. He began the campaign success- fully but met with reverses owing to lack of reinforcements, withdrew from the service and resumed practice. In his later life he retired from Gardiner and died in Roxbury, Massa- chusetts, June 6, 1829, aged seventy-eight. James A. Spalding. Hanson's History of Gardiner, Maine. DeButts, ElUha (1773-1831). Elisha DeButts, physiologist and a founder of the University of Mar^dand School of Medicine, was born in Dublin, of a family among the "Landed Gentry," in the year 1773. His father, John DeButts, was an officer in the Enghsh army. In his youth his family eniigrated to America and settled at Sharps- burg in Western Maryland. He attended school near Alexandria, where lived his uncle. Dr. Samuel DeButts, under whom he studied medicine. Later he entered Pennsylvania University and took his M. D. in 1805, the subject of his thesis being "An Inaugural Essay on the Eye and on Vision." After practising for several years on the Potomac, opposite Alexandria, he settled in Baltimore and was appointed professor of chemistry in the College of Medicine of Maryland in 1809,