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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 rea sons. 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 con sider great sacrifices. Nathan S. Davis, M.D., LL.D., has lec tured in the school upon Medical Juris prudence since 1873. He received the de gree 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 Medi cal Examiner," and until recently was the editor of the " Journal of the American Med ical Association." He has written a " His tory of the American Medical Association" and works entitled "Clinical Medicine" THOMAS and " Davis's Practice of Medicine." Most of the time since 1849 he has held a Professor ship, and is now Dean of the Chicago Med ical 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. 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 ad mitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Michigan at Detroit. He practised law in Memphis, Tenn., in 1 868-1 869, and at Ludington, Mich., from 1870 to 1875. In 1874 he was elected Judge of the Probate Court of Mason Coun ty, Mich., and in the following year re moved to Chicago, where he has since been principally occu pied in legal author ship and as an instruc tor in Union College of Law. He is now, in addition to his duties in this Law School, en HOYNE. gaged 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 Col lege the degree of M.D. During the last few years Professor Ewell has given consid erable attention to metrology and micro scopy, 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 dis tinguished corps of non-resident lecturers in the Law Department of Cornell University. He has written much for different law peri