MEMORIAL ADDRESS ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LAWSON TAIT.*
BY CHARLES A. L. REED, M.D.CINCINNATI, OHIO.Death makes no conquest of this conquerorFor now he lives in fame, though not in life.—Shakspeare.It is eminently proper that a part of the proceedings of this meeting should be devoted to the memory of a deceased Honorary Fellow—Lawson Tait, who died at Llandudno, Wales, June 13, 1899.This distinguished surgeon, the son of Archibald Campbell Tait, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1, 1845. His father was a guild brother of Heriot's Hospital, into which institution the son was admitted as a foundation scholar, at the early age of 7 years. In this humble institution he early showed those traits of mind which enabled him to win a scholarship in the University of Edinburgh, and which characterized his subsequent brilliant, career. We are informed that he did