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Bowditch (HENRY PICKERING an American)

HENRY PICKERING, an American educator, born in Boston, Mass., April 4, 1840; was graduated at Harvard in 1861, and subsequently studied chemistry and medicine, and, after the Civil War, in which he reached the rank of major in the Union service, he took a special course in physiology in France and Germany. In 1871-1876 he was Assistant Professor of Physiology in BOWERBANKIA the Harvard Medical School, and in 1876 was elected to the full chair. Resigned in 1906. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as of numerous medical societies.