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ILLIAM ALBERT ROSS, M.D., L.R.C.P., London, and L.R.C.S., Edinburgh; Barrie, Ont., was born December 22nd, 1861, in Ontario County. He is the son of Mr. James Ross, Reeve of the township of Oro. He received his education at the public school, Barrie Collegiate Institute, Victoria University, and Toronto School of Medicine. After he graduated in Victoria in 1883, he went to New York and spent a year in study at Bellevue Medical College. In 1885 he went to Europe and spent another year in the hospitals in London and Edinburgh, receiving the degrees of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons from those schools. Returning to Canada in 1886 he began the practice of his profession at Barrie. Dr. Ross is a member of the Presbyterian Church, of the Masonic Brotherhood, he is also Supreme Medical Examiner of the Sons of Scotland Fraternal and Benevolent Society. His thorough scholarship, coupled with his experience in the large hospitals of the American and European continent, gives him a high standing in the medical profession.

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W. HAMLIN, St. Catherines, Ont., only son of R. S. Hamlin, vicepresident of the Western Bank, Oshawa, was born at Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A., on November 20th, 1867. He commenced his education at the Friends College, Pickering, and finished at the British American Business College, Toronto. On leaving college he settled in St. Catharines, where he has since remained. He has recently gone into the manufacturing business in that city, where he is doing a successful and increasing trade, which promises to become a large industry in the near future, if a thorough acquaintance with the requirements of the trade will make it such. Mr. Hamlin formerly had a ranche at the head of the Columbia Lakes, British Columbia, which he has since sold, preferring to live in this part of the Dominion. In religion he is an Episcopalian. In politics he takes no active interest. He is a member of the Order of Select Knights. He was married at Santa Barbara, California, January 12th, 1887, to May, youngest daughter of E. Wismer, of Markham, Ont.

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EORGE STERLING GE RYERSON, M.D., C.M., Toronto, Ont., was born in that city in January, 1855. He is the grandson of Colonel Joseph Ryerson, U.E.L., son of the Rev. Geo. Ryerson and Isabella D. Sterling, daughter of Hon. Ansel Sterling, Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, and nephew of Rev. Dr. Egerton Ryerson, late Chief Superintendent of Education. He was educated at Galt grammar school, and afterwards at the Toronto Medical College, and graduated in 1875 from Trinity University. Proceeding to Europe, he studied at Edinburgh, and took double qualifications of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. He

then went to London and studied under Sir William Bowman and other eminent surgeons at the Moorfields Eye Hospital, and under Sir Morell Mackenzie, throat hospital in Golden Square. After this he went to the continent and studied under Drs. DeWecker and Galezowski in Paris, Otto Becker in Heidelburg, and Von Arlt, Von Jacger and others in Vienna. On his return to Canada in 1880 he was appointed to the Eye and Ear Department of the General Hospital and Hospital for Sick Children, and Professor of Eye and Ear diseases in Trinity Medical College. Dr. Ryerson was married in 1882 to Mary, daughter of the late James Crowther. Dr. Ryerson served throughout the North-West Rebellion as surgeon to the Royal Grenadiers; took part in the actions at Fish Creek and

Batoche, and was recommended by Sir Frederick Middleton for promotion to Surgeon-Major, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel for distinguished services. He is Master of Ionic Lodge A.F. & A.M., and was chairman of the Masonic reception to the Duke of Connaught. Dr. Ryerson has written many articles on professional subjects in journals of the United States and Canada. His most important work is in relation to the colour blindness of railway employees, and defective sight in public schools; in this connection he has examined nearly six thousand children.

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OLFORD WALKER, M.D., Medical Superintendent of Rotherham House, his private hospital, 54, 56 and 58 Isabella street, Toronto, was born in Barrie in 1846, and married in 1873 Annie Rolph, daughter of the late George Rolph, of Dundas. He took degrees of M.D. at Queen's University, Kingston, and Harvard University, Boston. The subject of this sketch affords an illustration of what can be achieved by application and constant higher aim in life. Graduating in 1867, he settled in Dundas. In a few years his practice became so large he was obliged to take a

partner in order to cope with the work, and also to afford an opportunity to devote more attention to the special branch of the profession his natural taste and talent directed him. In the winter of 1887 he went to Philadelphia in order to obtain a practical knowledge of Dr. Weir Mitchell's treatment of the nervous diseases of women by Massage, etc. On leaving Dundas he was presented by the townspeople with an address and a very handsome token of regard, besides numerous individual presentations. In the spring of 1887 he opened a private hospital in Hamilton for women, which proved so successful that he decided to remove to Toronto and give up general practice altogether. Being the first in Ontario to establish a private hospital, he also became the pioneer specialist in the province in surgical and nervous diseases of women. He went abroad for nine months and became assistant to Mr. Lawson Tait, the most celebrated abdominal surgeon of the day. On returning he reopened the hospital in Toronto. Success has continued to follow him in a marked degree-the profession showing their appreciation for his enterprise by keeping the hospital, which is one of the, if not the most, complete on the continent in every detail, always full. The doctor has always kept abreast of the times, by making it a rule from the first of going abroad every few years to see the practical work of the leading lights in his calling, and attributes his success chiefly to that fact.

ROTHERHAM HOUSE. - - DR. HOLFORD WALKER'S PRIVATE HOSPITAL,

54, 56 & 58 ISABELLA STREET, TORONTO.

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LBERT E. K. GREER, B.A., barrister, Toronto, was born December 25, 1860, at "Rose Lawn," Colborne, County of Northumberland, Ont. He was educated at Colborne High School and the University of Toronto, which he entered in 1879, and from which he graduated B.A. in 1883. Mr. Greer from his boyhood took a great interest in politics, in debating societies, and in literary pursuits. At the age of seventeen he was elected president of the Literary Institute of his native town. At the age of twentythree he delivered a series of addresses throughout Cornwall, Eng., on Canada,

urging tenant-farmers and others with means to emigrate. Many of these availed themselves of the opportunities presented, and are now happily located in the great North-West. Mr. Greer studied law with Judge Ketchum in Colborne, and subsequently with Delamere, Reesor & English, Toronto. He was called to the Bar in 1888. He is solicitor for several of the most successful corporations in Ontario. He is a prominent member of the Young Men's Liberal-Conservative Association, member of St. Andrew's Lodge A.F. & A.M., No. 16 G.R.C., and belongs to the Anglican Church.

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