t library, which
contains, amongst other things of great value, about 2000 Icelandic
manuscripts, very ancient, and written in the old Scandinavian tongue.

Recent Deaths.

AUGUSTUS SIDNEY DOANE was born, of a highly respectable family, in
Boston, on the second day of April, 1808. He was educated at Harvard
College, from which he received the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor
of Medicine, in 1828, a few months before attaining his majority. He
soon after went to Europe, where he passed two years in travel, and in
attendance upon medical and surgical lectures, in Paris; and returning,
in 1830, was married to Miss Gordon, the daughter of an eminent merchant
of Boston, and settled in the city of New-York, where he continued to
reside until his death, at Staten Island, on the morning of the 27th of
January. Although at all times an earnest student and successful
practitioner in his profession, Dr. Doane, for several years after his
settlement in New-York, devoted considerable attention to political,
historical and general, literature, and from the first, he was an
industrious writer on medicine and surgery. When the cholera first broke
out in this country, in 1832, he was the earliest to address the
profession in a scientific and practical discussion of its character,
and the ability, untiring industry, bravery and benevolence which he
exhibited during that melancholy season, established his popularity with
the people, and secured for him a degree of respect from his class which
they have seldom bestowed on one so young. Among his earliest
contributions to medical literature, was his edition of Dr. GOOD'S
_Study of Medicine_, in which he embodied, not only very important
discussions and notes of fact by himself, but the best views of the
medical writers of the United States on the various subjects treated in
that celebrated performance. He inscribed his edition of the _Study of
Medicine_ to the common friend of the author and himself, the learned
and excellent Dr. JOHN W. FRANCIS. He also translated MAYGRIER'S great
work on _Midwifery_, and several standard authorities on Anatomy and
Surgery; among which are DUPUYTREN'S _Surgery_, LUGOL'S _Researches on
Scrofulous Diseases_, BAYLE'S _Descriptive Anatomy_, BLANDIN'S
_Topographical Anatomy_, MECKEL'S _Anatomy_, SCOUTETTEN on _Cholera_,
RICORD on _Syphilis_, and CHAUSSIER _on the Arteries_. His editorial
contributions to _Surgery Illustrated_, and many occasional p