. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . s surrendered by the Con-federates. He was commissioned commodore, 25July, 1866. and appointed superintendent of thenaval observatory at Washington in 1867, wherehe remained until the latter part of 1873. He wascMtnniissioned rear-admiral, 27 April. 1871. placedon the retired list, 11 Feb., 1874, and was then aresident of Washington until his death. SANDS, David, Quaker preacher, b. on LongIsland, N. Y., 4 Oct., 1745; d. in Cornwall, N. Y.,in June, 1818. He became a merchant, but enteredthe Society of Friends, married a member of thatdenominatio
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . s surrendered by the Con-federates. He was commissioned commodore, 25July, 1866. and appointed superintendent of thenaval observatory at Washington in 1867, wherehe remained until the latter part of 1873. He wascMtnniissioned rear-admiral, 27 April. 1871. placedon the retired list, 11 Feb., 1874, and was then aresident of Washington until his death. SANDS, David, Quaker preacher, b. on LongIsland, N. Y., 4 Oct., 1745; d. in Cornwall, N. Y.,in June, 1818. He became a merchant, but enteredthe Society of Friends, married a member of thatdenomination, and began to preach in 1772. Helabored in this country and Canada till 1794, andthen in Europe till he was sixty year* of age. See David Sands, Journal of his Life and i Jo^pel La-bors (New York. 1848). SANDS, Henry Berton, surgeon, b. in NewYork city. 27 Sept., 1830: d. there, 18 studying at a high-school in New York, hegraduated at the College of physicians and surge. >nsin that city in 1854. Since that time he hadprac-. tised in New York, giving special attention to sur-gery. From 1860 till 1870 he was in partnershipwith Dr. VVillard Parker. Dr. Sands was demon-strator of anatomy in the College of physicians audsurgeons in 185(i-66, professor of that branch in1869-79, and since the last-named year had heldthe chair of the practice of surgery. He had beenconnected with various hospitals as consulting orattending surgeon, was a member of many medicalsocieties, and was president of the New York coun-ty pathological society in 1866-7, of the Countymedical society in 1874-6, and of the New Yorksurgical society in 1883. In the latter year he be-came a corresponding member of the Society ofsurgery of Paris. Dr. Sands had a high reputationas a successful operating surgeon. Among the de-scriptions of his operations that he had contributedto surgical literature are Case of Cancer of theLarynx, successfully removed by Laryngotomy(1865): Aneurism of the Sub-Clavia
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