a report to the profession and the public, in behalf of the staff, touching the results of the autopsy. He took part in the autopsy on the body of the assassin Guiteau, and aided materially in settling several points that had been raised as to the sanity of Guiteau when he shot President Garfield. In 1890, when Kemmler was electrocuted, the first murderer to receive capital punishment by this method, Dr. Shrady was one of the medical experts appointed to witness the execution. His observations led him to condemn electrocution unqualifiedly. Dr. Shrady's activities were great and varied. He was visiting surgeon to St. Francis Hospital for twenty years, and was consulting surgeon there for over six years past. He served in a similar consulting capacity at the New York Cancer Hospital, the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, the Columbus Hospital, the Fordham Home for Incurables, the General Memorial Hospital, the Red Cross Hospital, and the Vassar Brothers Medical Center at Poughkeepsie, New York, and as family surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Also he was physician-in-chief to the hospitals of the New York Health Department and one of the managers of the Hudson State Hospital for the Insane. From 1861 to 1879 Dr. Shrady was secretary of the New York Pathological Society, and president of that organization in 1883–84. He was president of the Practitioners' Society of New York and of the American Medical Editors' Association. Other positions held by him were the trusteeship of the Hudson State Hospital for the Insane at Poughkeepsie, fellow of the American and New York Academies of Medicine, member of the New York State Medical Society and various other scientific and professional organizations. While enjoying high distinction as an authority on subject relating to general surgery, and having a large practice, Dr. Shrady took special pride in his editorial work. This work he began early in his professional career, editing the "American Medical Times" from 1860 to 1864. Two years later he founded the "Medical Record" and remained its editor-in-chief for thirty-nine years. He was the author of "Pine Ridge Papers," a series of satirical and witty treatises on charlatanism among medical practitioners. His contributions on surgery to magazines of both popular and medical character constitute a valuable addition to the literature of the profession. For many years he was a member of the editorial staff of the "New