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THE world of letters, as well as that of science, has sustained a very great loss in the death of Col. J. S. Billings, M.D., who died in New York on March 11, at the age of seventy-six. Although born in Indiana, and not in New England, he was nevertheless a typical example of what Oliver Wendell Holmes in “Elsie Venner” calls “the Brahmin caste of New England.” In person he was tall and powerfully built. He had a well-poised and shapely head, clear-cut features and a very quiet, unassuming and courtly manner.
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BRUNTON, L. Colonel J. S. Billings, M.D. . Nature 91, 62 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091062b0
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