meeting of respectable physicians of the county of Westchester, who formed themselves into a society, to be known and called by the name and style of "The Medical Society of the County of Westchester." Dr. Archibald Macdonald was elected President, and Dr. Matson Smith, of New Rochelle, Secretary. The principal views of their formation appear to be a harmo-nious establishment of a regular practice of physic throughout the county, and an immediate compliance of the law of the Legislature of the State, made at the last session.' "Dr. Archibald Macdonald (not McDonald) was a native of Inverness, in Scotland, and belonged to what was called the Glengarry branch of the Macdonalds. The Glengarries write their name Macdonnell, but the Dr. in the latter part of his life, adopted the orthography generally used by the other Macdonald families. "When the Stuarts, in 1745, made their last attempt to recover the crown, the doctor's father joined Charles Edward, the pretender, with enthusiasm, and during that or the follow-ing year perished in battle, when his son Archibald was but a few weeks old; so the parent and his youngest child never saw each other. "Archibald came to this country at the age of twelve years, being about the year 1757. He lived for a while in Canada, and received his medical education in Philadelphia, to which place he was sent by his brother, an officer in the British Service. For a number of years he practiced his profession in North Carolina; he also served several years as a surgeon in the British army. "In the year 1787, he married in Dutchess County, in this State, and continued to reside there for several years, and finally, in the year 1795, settled at White Plains, where he practiced his profession down to the time of his death, which occurred on the 21st day of December, 1813, being at the time of his decease, sixty-eight years of age.