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Shattuck, George Cheyne

physician, author, was born July 17, 1783, in Templeton, Mass. He contributed largely to Dartmouth college, and built its observatory, which he furnished with valuable instruments. Shattuck school, at Faribault, Minn., a collegiate boarding-school under the auspices of the protestant episcopal church, of which Dr. Shattuck was a liberal patron, was named for him. He published two Boylston prize dissertations, entitled Structure and Physiology of the Skin; and Causes of Biliary Secretions; and Yellow Fever of Gibraltar in 1828. He died March 18, 1854, in Boston, Mass.

SHATTUCK, MRS. HARRIETTE (RO- BINSON), author, was born in 1850 in Massachusetts. She is a writer of Malden, Mass., who has published The Story of Dante's Divine Comedy; Little Folks East and West; and Woman's Manual of Parliamentary Law.