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Dr. Edward Lorenzo Holmes, who
for thirty-five years was a member of this Society, died of
pneumonia in Chicago, February 12, 1900, at the age of 72 years. Dr.
Holmes was born January 28, 1828, at Dedham, Mass., was graduated
from Harvard College at the age of 21, and then taught in the Latin
School of Roxbury, Mass. He graduated from the medical department of
Harvard in 1854, after which he served as interne in the
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He spent one year at the
University of Vienna, and then went to Chicago, where he entered
into the practice of ophthalmology and otology. He at once became
associated, in that city, with the pioneers of the medical
profession and took an active interest in the advancement of its
institutions and the promotion of its principles. To the movement
begun by him in 1858 the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary
owes its foundation. He was deeply interested in its welfare and
until his resignation very recently was at the head of its medical
and surgical staff. He aided actively in the foundation of the
Presbyterian Hospital in 1883, and was for a considerable time one
of the attending surgeons for the treatment of diseases of the eye
and ear.