WATKINS, Tobias, physician, born in Maryland in 1780; died in Washington, D. C., 14 November, 1855. He was graduated at St. John's college, Annapolis, in 1798, and at the Philadelphia medical college in 1802, and began practice in Havre de Grace, Maryland Afterward he removed to Baltimore, where he edited the "Medical and Physical Recorder" in 1809. He was surgeon in the army during the war of 1812-'15, and was assistant surgeon-general of the United States in 1818-'21, and fourth auditor of the United States treasury in 1824-'9. With his brother-in-law, Stephen Simpson, Dr. Watkins edited in Philadelphia the "Portico" (4 vols., 1816-'20). He contributed to periodicals, and translated from the French Xavier Bichat's "Physiological Researches upon Life and Death" (Philadelphia, 1809), and Louis de Onis's "Memoir upon the Negotiations between Spain and the United States which led to the Treaty of 1819 " (Baltimore, 1822).