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Toner, Joseph Meredith

physician, philanthropist, was born April 30, 1825, in Pittsburg, Pa. He is the president of the Columbian Historical society of Washington, D. C.; and he gave a collection of twenty-eight thousand books and eighteen thousand pamphlets to the congressional library, known as the Toner collection, and regarded as a most important and valuable acquisition. He founded the Toner lectures under the auspices of the Smithsonian institution.

He is the author of Abortion in Its Medical and Moral Aspects; Maternal Instinct; and Medical Men of the Revolution.