RAY, Isaac, physician, born in Beverly, Massachusetts, 16 January, 1807 ; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 31 March, 1881. He was graduated in medicine at Bowdoin in 1827, and practised in Portland and Eastport, Maine In 1841 he was appointed superintendent of the state insane asylum in Augusta, and in 1845 he was made superintendent of the Butler hospital for the insane in Providence, Rhode Island He held this office until 1866, and then removed to Philadelphia. Brown gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1879. In addition to many contributions to medical journals and other periodicals, and a series of valuable official reports, he was the author of "Conversations on Animal Economy " (Portland, 1829) ; "Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity" (Boston, 1838; London, 1839 ; 5th ed., enlarged, Boston, 1872) ; "Education in Relation to the Health of the Brain" (1851); and "Mental Hygiene" (1863).