Rosse, Irving C
neurologist, scientist, author, was born Oct. 20, 1842, in East New Market, Md. He received his education at the St. John's college of Annapolis; the United States Military academy of West Point; the university of Maryland; the New York university; and the principal clinics in Europe. He has been assistant surgeon in the United States army; surgeon to the revenue cutter bureau; surgeon of the Soldiers' home in Milwaukee; and United States examining surgeon for the District of Columbia. He was a juror to the Paris exposition; a member of the cholera commission to Europe in 1893; and professor of the diseases of the nervous system in the Georgetown university. He has done considerable literary work for medical journals upon popular scientific and geographical subjects; and is the author of The Cruise of the Corwin to Alaska and the North West Arctic Ocean; The First Landing on Wrangel Island; and various other works.