STURGIS, Frederic Russell, physician, born in Manila, Luzon, Philippine islands, 7 July, 1844. He was educated in London, England, and Boston, Massachusetts, was graduated as a physician at Harvard in 1867, practising in New York city. He has been visiting surgeon of the Charity hospital, New York, from 1872, was surgeon of the New York dispensary in 1877-'8, and became house physician there in 1878. He was appointed in 1874 clinical lecturer on venereal diseases in the University of the city of New York, in 1880 professor of that department in the same institution, and in 1882 professor of venereal and genito-urinary diseases in the Post-graduate medical school and hospital. Professor Sturgis was president of the New York county medical society in 1881-'2, and a member of its board of censors in 1878-'81. He has published "Students' Manual of Venereal Diseases" (New York, 1880); annotated and edited Diday's work on "Infantile Syphilis " (1883); and is the author of many articles on medical subjects.