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0. LARSELL k !>: mm 1864. They sent a communication to the Board of Trus- tees of Willamette University asking that body to or- ganize a medical department. This communication also asked that the department be located at Portland, and that certain gentlemen be elected as officers and pro- fessors of the same. On February 15, 1865, the Board 13 voted to establish such a department in Portland, to be called the Oregon Medical College, with certain pro- visions, including appointment of members of the fac- ulty by the Board of Trustees. A faculty was appointed, but difficulties arose which made it impracticable to carry out the plan of locating the school in Portland. At a meeting of the Board on November 14, 1866, it was voted to establish the department in connection with the other divisions of the university at Salem. A new fac- ulty was elected as follows: H. Carpenter, M. D ., pro- fessor of civil and military surgery; E. R . Fiske, A. M . M. D., professor of pathology and practice of medicine; John Boswell, M. D., professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children; J. H . Wythe, A. M., M. D., pro- fessor of physiology, hygiene and microscopy; D. Peyton, M. D ., professor of materia medica and therapeutics; J. W . McAfee, M. D ., professor of chemistry and toxi- cology; A. Sharpies, M. D ., professor of descriptive and surgical anatomy; W. C . Worimer, M. D ., demonstrator of anatomy; Hon. J. S. Smith, professor of medical juris- prudence. This was the first faculty to give medical instruction in the Pacific Northwest. The part which Dr. Wythe played in reviving the idea of a medical department and in establishing it at Salem, since it had not begun to function in Portland, is not altogether clear. It appears safe to state, how- ever, that his previous connection on the faculty of the Philadelphia Medical College, together with his reputa- tion as a surgeon and his position at the head of the uni- 13 Minutes of Board of Trustees, W . U .