CONTENTS. MARRIAGE AND DOMESTIC ESTABLISHMENT. SECOND TOUR ABROAD. - UNCERTAIN HEALTH. - DISCOVERY OF ETHER AS INCREASING ILLNESS.― ADDRESS TO THE MASSACHUSETTS MED- ICAL SOCIETY. "SURGICAL OBSERVATIONS." GROWING CONNECTION WITH VARIOUS SOCIETIES. TRIBUTES OF RESPECT. RESOLUTIONS OF THE PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF THE DR. WARREN'S CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS. - HIS HIGH IDEAL. PROFESSIONAL RELATIONS. PECULIAR MERITS BOTH AS SUR- GEON AND PHYSICIAN. AT THE HOSPITAL. - TREATMENT OF DR. WARREN'S YOUTHFUL SYMPATHIES. HIS CHILDREN. "MOUNT WARREN." · AN IDEAL HOME. HIS SENSE OF JONATHAN MASON WARREN was born in Boston on the 5th of February, A. D. 1811, at the house, No. 2 Park Street, then occupied by his father, John Collins Warren. His mother was Susan Powell Mason, daughter of Jonathan Mason; and he was their fourth child. So well known is his honorable descent, -so long and so thoroughly were members of his family identified with the history of their native State under every form of patriotism, devotion, and public spirit, that it is hardly necessary to mention that he was the grandson of John Warren, Hospital Surgeon in the War of the Revolution and first Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in Harvard College, and the grand-nephew of General Joseph Warren, who died on Bunker Hill. The early years of Mason-for thus his relatives and chosen friends invariably were wont to call him— moved quietly on under his father's roof, and seem to have brought forth little that, so far as he was concerned, deserves notice. Even those who knew him best are unable now to recall any words of his which would have justified the inference of future renown, or any deed that suggested precocious talent. This was undoubtedly due, in part at least, to the position in which he was born and to the circumstances which thereafter long surrounded him. These |