Elisha Bartlett, an American physician and author, born in Smithfield, R. I., in 1805, died there, July 18, 1855. He graduated from the medical department of Brown university in 1826, spent a year in Europe, and commenced practice in Lowell, Mass. He delivered the course of lectures on pathological anatomy at the Berkshire medical institute in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1832, and in 1839 lectured at Dartmouth college. Subsequently he held professorships in Transylvania college, Lexington, Ky. (1841), the university of Maryland (1844), Lexington again (1846), Louisville (1849), and the university of New York (1850); and from 1851 till his death he held the chair of materia medica and medical jurisprudence in the college of physicians and surgeons in New York. While occupied in these different situations during the autumn and winter, he also delivered from 1843 to 1852 the lectures at the Vermont medical college, Woodstock, in the spring and summer. He wrote "Essay on Philosophy of Medical Science "(1844); "Inquiry into the Degree of Certainty in Medicine" (1848); "The Fevers of the United States" (1850); "Discourse on the Times, Character, and Works of Hippocrates" (1852); and a volume of verses entitled "Simple Settings in Verse for Portraits and Pictures from Mr. Dickens's Gallery" (1855); and edited "The Monthly Journal of Medical Literature " at Lowell.