Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . he Pennsylvania col-lege of dental surgery. He is the author of astandard work entitled Ether and Chloroform,their Employment in Surgery, Dentistry, Mid-wifery, etc. (Philadelphia, 1851). FLAGG, Wilson, naturalist, b. in , 5 Nov., 1805; d. in North Cambridge, May, 1884. He was educated at Phillips Ando-ver academy, and entered Harvard in 1823. butremained there only three months, leaving to de-vote himself to the study of medicine: he. how-ever, never practised. In early manhood he madea pedestrian tour alone from Tennessee to
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . he Pennsylvania col-lege of dental surgery. He is the author of astandard work entitled Ether and Chloroform,their Employment in Surgery, Dentistry, Mid-wifery, etc. (Philadelphia, 1851). FLAGG, Wilson, naturalist, b. in , 5 Nov., 1805; d. in North Cambridge, May, 1884. He was educated at Phillips Ando-ver academy, and entered Harvard in 1823. butremained there only three months, leaving to de-vote himself to the study of medicine: he. how-ever, never practised. In early manhood he madea pedestrian tour alone from Tennessee to Virginia,and thence home. He also delivered lectures aboutthe same time on natural science. Meanwhile hehad developed a taste for political discussion, andbecame a frequent contributor to the Boston Weekly Magazine and the Boston -Post. In1840 he ceased writing on political subjects, andturned his attention almost exclusively to theagricultural journals. His papers in HoveysMagazine of Horticulture formed the basis of 478 FLAXAG HAN FLANDRAU. Wdm ^fe i his first book. Many of his articles also ap-peared in the Atlantic Monthly. From 1844till 1848 he was employed in the Boston custom-house. In 1850 he removed to Cambridge, Mass., where he afterward re-sided. He was the au-thor of Studies inthe Field and For-est (Boston, 1857) ; Woods and By-Ways of New Eng-land (1872); and Birds and Seasonsof New England(1875). lie also edited Mount Auburn, itsScenes, its Beauties,and its Lessons. Mostof the matter con-tained in the threevolumes first men-tioned has been repub-lished, with some newmaterial, under the ti-Halcyon Days, A Year with the Trees,and A Year with the Birds (3 vols., Boston,1881).—His son, Isaac, educator, b. in Beverly,Mass., 7 1843, was a student at Phillips An-dover academy, and graduated at Harvard in serving as tutor in Greek at Harvard from1865 till 1869, he studied in the universities ofBerlin and Gottingen during 1870-l. He hassince been profe
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