WATSON, Beriah Andre, physician, born in Lake George, New York, 26 March, 1836. He obtained his education through his own exertion and was graduated at the medical department of the University of New York in 1861, and settled at White House, New Jersey In 1862 he entered the United States service as contract surgeon, and he was engaged in hospital and field service until the end of the war. At his retirement, on 10 July, 1865, he was surgeon in charge of the 1st division 6th army corps hospital, and also acting medical purveyor. He then settled in Jersey City, where he still practises his profession. He was appointed attending surgeon to the Jersey City charity hospital at the time of its organization in 1869, and since 1873 has been attending surgeon to St. Francis hospital, and Christ's hospital since 1885. The passage of the act that legalized the dissection of the human cadaver in New Jersey was secured principally through his efforts and those of Dr. John D. McGill. Dr. Watson has been president of the New Jersey academy of medicine, of which he was a founder. Rutgers gave him the degree of M.A. in 1882. He has contributed essays and reports of cases to medical journals, including "A Case of Neuralgia treated by Extirpation of the Superior Maxillary Nerve" (1871); "Pathology and Treatment of Chronic Ulcers" (1875) ; "Cases of Rabies Canina treated with Stryehina and Woorara" (1876) ; " Disease Germs: their Origin, Nature, and Relation to Wounds" (1878): " Woorara: its Medical Properties and Availability for the Treatment of Diseases " (1882); and an "Experimental Study of Anaesthetics," read before the American surgical association in Washington, D. C., 30 April, 1884. Dr. Watson has also translated medical essays from the French and German, and has published two books, " Amputations and their Complications " (Philadelphia, 1885)and "The Sportsman's Paradise, on the Lake Lands of Canada" (1888), and contributed the chapter on " Pyaemia and Septicaemia" to " Practical Medicine," edited by Dr. William Pepper (Philadelphia, 1885).