WILLIAM R. WOODBURY was born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 17, 1863. He fitted for college in Melrose, Massachusetts, and graduated from Tufts College in 1885 and from the Harvard Medical School in 1889. The following year he spent in study at the Universities of Berlin and Vienna. In 1891 he settled in Boston, was appointed District Physician, and a year later, Physician for Diseases of the Nervous System to the Boston Dispensary, which appointment he still holds. Since 1893 he has been Medical Director of the Goddard Gymnasium, and Lecturer on Hygiene in the Tufts Medical School. He is a member of Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa.