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REYNOLDS 973 REYNOLDS mirer of everything beautiful in microscopic nature. As a faitliful and tireless worker he inspired his co-laborers and as a medical prac- titioner for twenty-five years in Philadelphia, earned the gratitude of high and low. During the Civil War he acted as engineer in the United States Navy. He died sud- denly on the morning of February 4, 1895, of heart disease. His writings included: "Siphoptychium Cas- pary," Botany Gaaette, ix-x ; "The Myxomy- cetes," Ibid., ix-x; "On the Genus Lindbladia," Botany Gazette. Ibid., xvi ; "New American Myxomycetes," "Proceedings of Academy of Natural Science," Philadelphia, 1891 ; "New North American Myxomycstes," Ibid.. 1893; "Notes on Cribraria Minutissima and Licea Minima," Botanical Gasettc, xix; "The Band- ed-spore Trichias, Journal of Mycology, ii. John W. Harshberger. The Botanists of Philadelphia. J. W. Harshberger, 1S99. Reynolds, Dudley Sharpe (1842-1915). Dudley Sharpe Reynolds, an oto-ophthal- mologist of Louisville, Kentucky, was born near Bowling Green, Warren County, Ken- tucky, August 31, 1842, the son of Reverend Thomas, and Mary Nichols Reynolds ; he re- ceived the degree of A. M. at Ogden College, Bowling Green, and, in 1868, the medical de- gree at the University of Louisville. From 1869-71 he was surgeon-in-chief to the Western Dispensary — a position which he resigned to begin the study of ophthalmology and otology. After spending some time at the University of Pennsylvania, the Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, he proceeded to Europe, where he studied at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hos- pital (Moorfields), the London Throat Hos- pital, and, in Utrecht, under Donders and Snellen, and in Pa'ris under De Wecker, Sichel, Ed. Meyer, and Galezowski ; in Vienna under Stellwag, Fuchs, Gruber and Polizzer; in Ber- lin, under Schweiger, Hirschberg, and von Bergmann. Returning to America, he was soon widely known as an oto-ophthalmologist. One of the organizers of the Hospital College of Med- icine (the Medical Department of the Central University of Kentucky), he was professor of ophthalmology and oto-laryngology at this in- stitution from its very inception in 1874. He was also professor of general pathology and hygiene from 1882 to 1892. In the last year, on the establishment of a chair of medical jurisprudence at the college in question, Dr. Reynolds was made the first incumbent, retain- ing the position until 1901, when he retired from teaching altogether. Dr. Reynolds was one of the organizers of the Confederation of American Medical Colleges, and was chairman of the Judicial Council of that body for a number of years. He was later the chairman of the Judicial Council of the Association of American Med- ical Colleges. In 1880 he was chairman of the section of Ophthalmology, Otology, and Laryngology of the American Medical Asso- ciation. He was once foreign delegate of the American Medical Association, and in 1881 was made an honorary member of the British Medical Association. In 1887 he was President of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. Dr. Reynolds was thrice married : first, on May 7, 1865, to Mary F. Keagam ; again, on July 13, 1881, to Matilda L. Bruce; and, on June 5, 1907, to Lillie B. Baldwin. He died at his country home, "West Meath Farm," near Louisville, Kentucky, February 4, 1915. Dr. Reynolds was a large, stout man, smooth-faced, of fair complexion, and with bright blue eyes and brown hair. He was very deliberate and thoughtful as an operator, but, at his home and in social life, he was cheerful and even gay. He was fond of fish- ing and country life in general, and, for the last seven years of his life, lived in the country near Louisville, while continuing to practise in that city. He was a very broad- minded, and public-spirited man, a Democrat in politics, but interested in all phases of public affairs, regardless of party affiliations. With the assistance of about fifty citizens of Louisville, he reorganized the Polytechnic So- ciety of Kentucky, paid ofif its debt and gave of his private means for the purchase of a considerable portion of the volumes in its library. TH0M.^s Hall Shastid. Private Sources. Reynolds, Edward (1793-1881). Edward Reynolds was born in Boston, February 28, 1793, and graduated in arts in 1811, at Harvard College, afterwards study- ing medicine for several years under Dr. John Collins Warren (q. v.). Brown and Bowdoin conferred on him the honorary M. D. in 1825. In London he studied under Abernethy, Astley Cooper, and William Lawrence (on the eye), and in Paris under Bichat and Dupuytren, devoting himself on his return to America chiefly to general and ophthalmic surgery. In 1824, with John Jeffries (q. v.), he founded a