CLASS OF 1887

Dr. Irving Oscar Cummings died of interstitial nephritis at his home in Brewster, Mass., August 2. Dr. Cummings was born in Concord, N. H., February 22, 1864, being the son of Eben Grout and Amelia Jane (Woodbury) Cummings. He prepared for college in the high school of his native city, and took the course of the Chandler. Scientific Department, Upon graduation he entered upon the study of medicine at Harvard, graduating as M.D. in 1890. He practiced his profession at Haverhill, Mass., from August, 1890, to May, 1892, and then at Georgetown, Mass., to March, 1894. At the last date he removed to Brewster, and continued in active and successful practice until forced by ill health six years since to retire. He spent three winters in Florida with his wife, and last year (from October, 1909, to January, 1910) they circumnavigated the globe. From this time he grew rapidly worse. Dr. Cummings was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and a Mason. He was married at Portsmouth, N. H., June 8, 1893, to Florence Goodwin, daughter of Charles Hiram and Lucy Matilda (Sweetser) Hayes, who survives him. They have had no children.

Dr. Charles A. Eastman has just returned from an extended trip among the most primitive Indian tribes, who inhabit the wildest part of the continent, in search of material for the ethnological collections of the University of Pennsylvania. He had several narrow escapes on his trip. . A small naphtha launch he was traveling in exploded, and he also barely escaped from the savage attack of a moose. Dr. Eastman will soon publish several magazine articles describing his experience.

Dr. John M. Gile and Harry T. Lord were elected aS members of the governor's council of New Hampshire at the recent election.

Secretary, Emerson Rice, 87 Arlington St., Hyde Park, Mass.