WILDER, Alexander, physician, born in Verona, Oneida County, New York, 14 May, 1823. He attended the common schools, was self-educated in the higher branches, taught for some time, and was graduated in medicine at Syracuse in 1850. He was an editor of the Syracuse " Star " in 1852 and of the "Journal" in 1853, and took charge of the "New York Teacher" in 1856. In 1857 he went to Springfield, Illinois, where he prepared the bill to incorporate the State normal university. Removing to New York city, he became connected in 1858 with the " Evening Post," on whose staff he remained for thirteen years. In 1871 he was elected an alderman of New York on the anti-Tweed ticket. He was president of the Eclectic medical society of New York in 1870-'1, of whose "Transactions" he edited two volumes (Albany, 1870-'1), and became secretary of the National association, whose annual " Proceedings" he has issued since 1876. In 1873-'7 he was professor of physiology in the Eclectic medical college of the city of New York, and from 1878 till 1883 he held successively the chairs of physiology and psychological science in the United States medical college. Dr. Wilder is a member of the American Akademe, a philosophical society, and editor of its " Journal," published in Orange, New Jersey He has published many monographs, including "The Intermarriage of Kindred" (New York, 1870) ; " Plea for the Collegiate Education of Women " (1874);" Vaccination a Medical Fallacy" (1878); " Paul and Plato " (St. Louis, 1881);" Life Eternal" (Orange, New Jersey, 1885); and "The Ganglionic Nervous System" (1887). He has edited essays on "Ancient Symbol-Worship" (New York, 1873); Thomas Taylor's "Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries" (1875)" Richard Payne Knight's " Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology" (1876); and " India: what can it Teach us*." by Max Muller (1883); and translated Iamblichus's work on "The Mysteries of the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Chaldaeans," in " The Platonist."