THE LATE DR. ALFRED C. POST.

One of the old land marks of the medical profession is gone! Few men are privileged to continue in actual practice fifty-seven years! Thousands have heard him lecture, seen him operate and read his published papers. He was indeed a remarkable man. At the age of eighty he continued to operate with the freshness of youth. As a lecturer he was terse—direct to the point; as a writer he was lucid and clear; as an operator he was steady, bold and self-reliant; as a man he was a Christian.

If there was one thing more than another more prominent in his well-rounded character, it was his devotion to duty. He was a man of fine religious faith, devout in his behavior and an excellent theologian and Biblical scholar. The two things he is said to have most enjoyed were a surgical operation and a prayer meeting. He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church, and his example of earnest, unselfish devotion to duty can not help but leave an influence for good which will last long after his brilliant surgical operations are forgotten.

Dr. Post was born in New York city in 1805, graduated from Columbia College in 1822, became a medical student in the office of Dr. Wright Post, his uncle, an eminent surgeon of a former generation. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1827. After spending two years in the medical schools and hospitals of Paris, Berlin and Edinburgh, he commenced active practice of his profession in New York city, which he continued until the week before his death. He was one of the founders of the Medical Department of the University of New York, taking the chair of surgery and pathological anatomy, and at the time of his death was president of the medical faculty and emeritus professor of the clinical surgery in that institution. His funeral took place Wednesday, February 10, and the Church of the Covenant, of which Dr. Post was a member, was crowded with professional and other friends of the dead man.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY.

The annual meeting of the Alumni Association will be held at 2 o’clock, P. M., Wednesday, March 3, in the amphitheatre of the City Hospital corner of Erie and Lake streets.

Dr. E. D. Burton of Collamer, Ohio, will be the orator of the occasion, and Prof. Proctor Thayer, the elected poet.

The president, Prof. G. C. E. Weber, will also deliver an address.

The subjects for discussion are: First, Cholera, the leading speakers being Doctors Thayer, Lowman and Kelley. Second, Diphtheria, its Aetiology and Treatment, with Dr. Knowlton of Brecksville, and Dr. Orwig of Cleveland, as leading speakers. The annual election of officers will be held, and other important business transacted.

The Hon. S. E. Williamson will deliver an address to the graduating class in the evening. The graduating exercises will be held in the First Methodist Church, corner of Euclid avenue and Erie street. There will afterwards be a reception and banquet at the Hollenden.

THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL COLLEGE.

The Western Pennsylvania Medical College has been organized and liberally endowed, and will soon assume possession of its new building on Sixth street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The course of lectures will not begin, however, until October. The faculty will be composed of the following well-known, earnest and hard-working practitioners: Professor of Anatomy, Dr. Heckelman; Professor of Physiology, Dr. Allen; Professor of the Principles of Surgery, Dr. Murdock; Professor of the Practice of Surgery, Dr. McCann; Professor of the Principles of Medicine, Dr. Shively; Professor of Clinical Medicine, Dr. Lane; Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Blank; Professor of Materia Medica, Dr. Gallagher; Professor of Obstetrics, Dr. Duff; Professor of GynÆcology, Dr. Asdale; Lecturer on Dermatology, Dr. Dunn; Lecturer on Nervous Diseases, Dr. Ayers; Lecturer on OrthopÆdic Surgery, Dr. King; Lecturer on Genito-Urinary Diseases, Dr. Thomas.