CLASS OF 1891

Dr. Jay Hobart Egbert died August 23, 1919, at Lima, Peru. His death was sudden, and its cause not certainly determined, but probably from ptomaine poisoning.

The son of Rev. John Hobart and Allie (Titus) Egbert, he was born at Stanhope, N. J., July 10, 1868. He came to Dartmouth with the degree of A.B. from National University in 1889, and received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1892.

After graduation he practiced for a short time at Newark, N. J., and then to 1899 at Holyoke, Mass. While there he gave up general practice and became a specialist on the eye and ear, having done much work in eye and ear clinics in New York. From 1902 to 1906 he was in government employ as surgeon for the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Nearly all this time he was engaged in special research work for the Smithsonian Institute on vessels fitted out for that purpose. He made a report on the fauna and flora of the Aleutian Islands, and later made the first official survey of the Everglades. He was then for a time in practice in Willimantic, Conn. Next he was in the employ of mining companies in Central America as medical adviser and general physician of employees, and then medical director for the United Fruit Company in Colombia. He was last in the service of the Fellows Company (phosphate). He represented them in Chile and Peru, and at the outbreak of the war was in Spain, whence he was recalled to Peru. Much of his time during the last five years was spent in the preparation of pamphlets for the company in English and Spanish.

He was a member of the American Medical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and had been president of the American Zoological Association.

June 16, 1891, Dr. Egbert was married to Florence E. Atwood, who survives him, with a daughter.