CHARLES G. CUMSTON was born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 28, 1868. He received his preliminary education at Mr. Hopkinson's school, and at the age of seventeen went to Geneva, Switzerland, taking the degree from the Gymnasium of that city in the Fall of 1886, and entering the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva. He received the degree of Bachelor in Medical Sciences in 1890, and that of Doctor of Medicine in October, 1893. He served three years as Surgical Assistant at the Butini Hospital, Geneva, and was intern pupil at Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, during the summer of 1892.

Returning to Boston in November, 1893 he became one of the Editors of the "Annals of Gynæcology and Pediatry," also a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, in June, 1894. He was elected a member of the Societé Française d'Electro-Therapie in February, 1895.

In 1894 he was appointed Instructor in Clinical Gynæcology in the Tufts Medical School.

Doctor Cumston has been an extensive contributor to various medical journals, and up to the opening of the present college year has published nineteen important papers.