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amination. He states practical cases which reveal every possible distinction concerning the subject matter in question, and asks the learner to apply the law and give the reasons. He enjoys his duties as an instructor, and to retain his connection with the school has made what most men of his wealth and professional and business duties would consider great sacrifices.

Nathan S. Davis, M.D., LL.D., has lectured in the school upon Medical Jurisprudence since 1873. He received the degree of M.D. when twenty years of age, and has contributed to medical journals all his life, having edited "The Annalist: A Surgical Journal;" "The Chicago Medical Examiner," and until recently was the editor of the "Journal of the American Medical Association." He has written a "History of the American Medical Association" and works entitled "Clinical Medicine" and "Davis's Practice of Medicine." Most of the time since 1849 he has held a Professorship, and is now Dean of the Chicago Medical College. Dr. Davis was the founder and has been President of the American Medical Association, and is the only man in the United States who has had the honor of presiding at a meeting of the International Medical Congress. His gratuitous services to the health and morality of Chicago have been large. During all this time he has had a very extensive medical practice. Few lives have been more useful than his.

THOMAS HOYNE.

The next of the instructors in length of service in this school is Marshall Davis Ewell, M.D., LL.D. who was born at Oxford, in Oakland County, Mich., on August 18, 1844. He was educated in the public schools of Michigan and at the Michigan State Normal School, from which institution he was graduated in 1864. In 1868 he received the degree of LL.B. from the Law Department of the University of Michigan, and in the same year was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Michigan at Detroit. He practised law in Memphis, Tenn., in 1868-1869, and at Ludington, Mich., from 1870 to 1875. In 1874 he was elected Judge of the Probate Court of Mason County, Mich., and in the following year removed to Chicago, where he has since been principally occupied in legal authorship and as an instructor in Union College of Law. He is now, in addition to his duties in this Law School, engaged in the general practice of law. In 1879 the University of Michigan conferred upon him the degree of LL.D., and in 1884 he received from the Chicago Medical College the degree of M.D. During the last few years Professor Ewell has given considerable attention to metrology and microscopy, and now gives instruction upon those subjects in the Northwestern University. He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, and is one of the distinguished corps of non-resident lecturers in the Law Department of Cornell University. He has written much for different law peri-