STONER, Bellamy, jurist, born in Portland, Maine, 9 March, 1798; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1 June, 1875. He was educated at Bowdoin, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1817, and the same year began practice at Cincinnati. In 1824 he advocated the election of John Quincy Adams to the presidency, and edited "The Crisis," an organ of his party. He served in congress in 1835-'7, declined renomination, and in 1844 was a presidential elector on the Henry Clay ticket. He was for many years a professor in the Cincinnati law-school, and served for nineteen years as judge of the supreme court of that city. He was popular as a speaker at both political and religious meetings. At one time in his early life Judge Storer was a leading spirit in a religious band of young men called " Flying Artillery," who went from town to town to promote revivals. He received the degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1821.--His brother, David Hmnphreys, physician, born in Portland, Maine, 26 March, 1804, was graduated at Bowdoin in 1822, and, after studying medicine with Dr. John C. Warren, was graduated at the medical department of Harvard in 1825. Settling in Boston, he there began his practice, which he still (1888) continues. In 1837 he originated the Tremont street medical school, and in 1854 he was called to the chair of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence in the medical department of Harvard, becoming also its dean, which appointments he held until 1868. Dr. Storer was physician to the Massachusetts general hospital from 1849 till 1858, and in 1837 was given charge of the departments of zoology and herpetology, under the direction of the Massachusetts state survey. He is a member of many medical and scientific societies in the United States, to whose transactions he has frequently contributed papers on natural sciences, and in 1866 was president of the American medical association. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Bowdoin in 1876. His larger publications include a translation from the French of Louis C. Kiener's "Genera, Species, and Iconography of Recent Shells" (Boston, 1837); "Report on the Ichthyology and Herpetology of Massachusetts" (1839); "Synopsis of the Fishes of North America" (Cambridge, 1846); and "History of the Fishes of Massachusetts" (in parts, Boston, 1853-'67).--David's son, Horatio Robinson, surgeon, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 27 February, 1830, was graduated at Harvard in 1850, where he devoted special study to natural science, and was a private pupil of Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray. He then turned to medicine, received his degree from Harvard in 1853, and then spent two years in Paris, London, and Edinburgh, during one of which he was the assistant, in private practice, to Sir James Y. Simpson. In 1855 he established himself in Boston and made a specialty of gynecology. For several years he served as assistant to his father while the latter lectured at Harvard, and in 1865 he was chosen to tile chair of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence in Berkshire medical college, which he held for four years. To better fit himself for teaching medical jurisprudence, he attended the Harvard law-school, and was graduated in 1868. For several years he delivered in Boston a semi-annual course to medical graduates upon the surgical diseases of women, refusing to admit any applicant that was not, ill good standing in the American medical association. These lectures were attended by physicians from all parts of the country. ]n 1872 his health failed and he went to Europe, where he spent five years, studying practically the fevers of southern Italy. On his return he settled in Newport, Rhode Island, where he has since resided. While in Boston he was physician to the Boston lying-in hospital, to , St. Elizabeth's hospital, and to St. Joseph's home, consulting surgeon to Carney general hospital, mid surgeon to the New England hospital for women and children. Dr. Storer is a member of many scientific and medical societies in this country and abroad, and was one of the founders and later president of the Gynecological society of Boston, of whose journal he was also the active editor :in 1869-'73. He was also in 1871 president of the Association of American medical editors. He has been a frequent attendant at the meetings of the American medical association, of which he was secretary and prize essayist in 1865 and vice-president in 1868, and in 1871, by special invitation of the California state board of health, he delivered a lecture in Sacramento on "Female Hygiene." He was a vice-president of the gynecological section of the Ninth international congress. Dr. Storer has been a very large contributor to medical journals, and the titles of his papers exceed 1.5 in number. In book-form he has published, with Dr. William O. Priestley, " The Obstetric Memoirs and Contributions of Sir James Y. Simpson" (Edinburgh, 1855; Philadelphia, 1856);" Criminal Abortion in America" (Philadelphia, 1860); " Why Not ? A Book for Every Woman" (Boston, 1866); "' Is it I? A Book for Every Man" (1867); with Franklin F. Heard, "Criminal Abortion: Its Nature, its Evidence, and its Law" (1868); "On Nurses and Nursing, with Special Reference to the Management of Sick Women" (1868) ; and "Southern Italy as a Health Station for Invalids" (Naples, 1875).--Another son, Francis Humphreys, chemist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 27 March, 1832, entered the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard in 1850, and there made a specialty of chemistry, studying under Josiah P. Cooke, whose assistant he became in 1851. He remained for two years in Professor Cooke's laboratories at Cambridge and at Harvard medical school in Boston, where he also instructed a private class in chemical analysis. In 1853 he was appointed chemist to the United States North Pacific exploring expedition, and visited the principal islands of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. On his return he completed his course at the Lawrence scientific school, receiving the degree of S. B. in 1855, and then studied abroad with Bunsen in Heidelberg, Richter in Freiberg, Stockardt in Tharandt, and with Emile Kopp in Paris. He returned in 1857, and was chemist to the Boston gas-light company till 1871, also opening a private laboratory as an analytical and consulting chemist. In 1865 he was appointed Frofessor of general and industrial chemistry at the Massachusetts institute of technology, where, with Charles W. Eliot, he devoted himself to teaching chemistry in its application to the arts and as a means of mental training in general education, and to the task of organizing and perfecting a system of instructing students in large classes by the experimental method. He spent several months abroad during 1867 for the purpose of studying the chemical departments of the World's fair in Paris and the processes actually employed in the chemical manufactures of Europe. In 1870 he was called to the chair of agricultural chemistry at Harvard, and he has since occupied that post, and is dean of the Bussey institution. Professor Storer received the honorary degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1870, and is a member of scientific societies at home and abroad. His papers exceed 100 in number. For some time he was American editor of the "Repertoire de chimie appliquee," and has conducted the" Bulletin of the Bussey Institution." In book-form he has published " Dictionary of the Solubilities of Cenal Substances (Cambridge, 1864); with Charles W. Eliot, " Manual of Inorganic Chemistry" (New York, 1868) and "Manual of Qualitative Chemistry Analysis" (1869) ; "Cyclopaedia of Quantitative Analysis," in two parts (Boston, 1870-'3) ; and "Agriculture in Some of its Relations with Chemistry " (2 vols., New York, 1887). --David's cousin, George Washington, naval of-ricer, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1789; died there, 8 January, 1864, entered the navy as a midshipman, 16 January, 1809, and was commissioned a lieutenant, 24 July, 1813. He served in the ship "Independence," on the Mediterranean station in 1815-'16, commanded the schooner "Lynx" on the New England coast and in the Gulf of Mexico in 1817, cruised in the frigates "Congress" and "Java" in the West Indies in 1818-'19, and in the frigate "Constitution" in the Mediterranean in 1820-'4. He was commissioned master-commandant, 24 April, 1828, and captain, 9 February, 1837, commanded the receiving-ship "Constellation "at Boston in 1839, the frigate "Potomac," of the Brazil station, in 1840-'2, the navy-yard at Portsmouth in 1843-'6, and was the commander-in-chief of the Brazil squadron in 1847-'50. He was on leave and served as member of boards, president of the board of inquiry, and other duty in 1851-'4. In 1855-'7 he was governor of the naval asylum at Philadelphia. He was retired, 21 December, 1861, on account of age, and promoted to rear-admiral on the retired list, 16 July, 1862. In 1861-'2 he served on special duty in Brooklyn, after which he was unemployed for one year.