DRAPER 334 DROWNE War" and "Thoughts on the Fiiluic Civil Policy of America." In 1874 the American Academy of Science conferred on hiin the Rumford medal, the highest distinction in their gift, for his re- searches on "Radiant Matter." Abridged from Distinguished Living New York Physicians, S. W. Francis, M. D., 1867. Med. and Surg. Reporter, Phila., 1866, vol. xv, 96-98. Med. News, Thila., 1882, vol. xl. Nature, London, 1881-2, vol. xxv. Phila. Med. Times, 1881-2, vol. xii. Draper, William Henry (1830-1901). William Henry Draper was born in Brat- tleboro, Vt., October 14, 1830, and died in New York City April 25, 1901. He graduated in arts from Columbia in 1851, afterwards becoming a student under Dr. Willard Parker and received his M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1855, while in 1854 his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of A. M. He was clinical professor of diseases of the skin at the College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1869-79, and although lectures had been given on this subject before in this college he was the first to hold the professorship and was one of the founders of the American Der- matological Association. After relinquishing his dermatological professorship, he gave his entire attention to clinical medicine, was pro- fessor of clinical medicine in Columbia, and is remembered rather as a clinician than as a dermatologist, being consulting physician to St. Luke's, Roosevelt and Presbyterian Hos- pitals, and visiting physician to the New York Hospital. He was a member of the New York County Medical Society and president of the Academy of Medicine. He was a careful, though not voluminous writer, and was the author of a small treatise on dermatology. J. McF. WiNFIELD. Drinkard, William Beverly (1842-1877). A native of Williamsburg, Virginia, where he was born, December 7, 1842, his mother was Mary Frances Martin, daughter of Wil- liam Beverly Martin. Dr. Drinkard lived in Virginia until 1857, when he came to Wash- ington and attended the school of Mr. Charles B. Young, where he showed fine intellectual qualities. He was a pupil at Georgetown Med- ical College a short time, and in May, 1860, sailed for Europe and studied at the Lycee Imperiale, Orleans, France. Then he went to Paris, and in November, 1861, began to =tudv medicine with ardor and dexotion. As assistant in the ophlhalmological clinic of Des- marres he had abundant opportunities to study eye disease. Dr. Drinkard also served as interne in the hospitals and came in con- tact with the eminent teachers of the time — Velpeau, Nelaton, Malgaigne, and others. In 1865 he went to London where he re- ceived the degree of M. R. C. S., and in the autumn of 1865 returned to Washington and took his M. D. at Columbian College, Dis- trict of Columbia. Immediately after gradua- tion he began to practise, being in a short time made demonstrator of anatomy in the National Medical College, an,d lecturer on minor surgery. In 1872 he was elected pro- fessor of anatomy, a chair he held at the time of his death. He was one of the founders of the Children's Hospital, his special depart- ment being diseases of the eye and ear. As an opthalmologist, the great care which he bestowed on his cases, the thoroughness of his clinical examinations, the precision and nicety of his manipulations established the strongest confidence in his ability. No death ever occurred among the young- er members of the medical profession in Washington which was so generally lamented as that of Dr. Drinkard on February 13, 1877. Daniel Smith Lamb. Trans. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1878, vol. Ixxix. Minutes of Med. Soc., District of Columbia, Feb. 4, 1877. National Med. Review, Tan.. 1878. vol. i. Reminiscences, S. C. Busey, 1895. Drowne, Solomon (1753-1834). Solomon Drowne, physician, botanist and public-spirited citizen, was born in Providence. Rhode Island, March 11, 1753, son of Solomon Drowne, who settled in Providence in 1730, a merchant and a prominent citizen. The younger Drowne graduated at Rhode Island College (Brown University) in 1773, and in medicine at the University of Penn- sylvania in 1781 ; he received a medical de- gree, also, from Brown in 1804, and A. M. from Dartmouth in 1786. From 1783 until his death he was a fellow of Brown Uni- versity. He served in several hospitals and in the Revolutionary War. He is said to have "won the regard" of Lafayette, Count de Rochambeau and Count d'Estaing, so that in- valid soldiers were left to his care when the head of the medical staff returned to France. Drowne went on a cruise as surgeon in the privateer Hope, and a journal of this cruise, containing the genealogy of his family, has been published. In 1784-1785 he visited hospitals and med- ical schools in England, France, Belgium and
