Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ΤΟ JACOB BIGELOW, M. D., WHOSE VARIED ATTAINMENTS IN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART REFLECT THEIR MINGLED LIGHT ON THE PROFESSION WHICH HE ADORNS, THIS VOLUME OF ESSAYS IS Respectfully Dedicated. |