WILLIAMS, Henry Willard, physician, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 11 December, 1821. He was educated in the schools of Boston and Salem, and from his seventeenth till his twenty-fourth year was engaged in mercantile business. He was graduated in medicine at Harvard in 1849, engaged in practice in Boston, Massachusetts, and became distinguished as an oculist. He has been for twenty-five years ophthalmic surgeon to the Boston city hospital, was a lecturer in Harvard medical school in 1869-'71, and from that time has filled the chair of ophthalmology. Dr. Williams is connected with many medical societies, American and European, was for some years president of the American ophthalmological society, and at the International congress at London in 1872 was a vice-president. The degree of A. M. was conferred on him by Harvard in 1868. He published a "Practical Guide to the Study of the Diseases of the Eye " (Boston, 1862); " Recent Advances in Ophthalmic Science" (1866) ; " Optical Defects in School-Children" (1868); a Boylston prize essay; " Our Eyes and how to take Care of Them " (1871); and "The Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Eye" (1886).