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a book on "Shell-shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems pre- 

 sented in 589 Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918." 



Throughout all these various interests the fundamental fascination 

 of the problem of the relation of structure to function continued, and 

 in a boldly outlined program for research into the basis of feeble- 

 mindedness he sought to determine the "minimum brain machinery 

 with which speech and thought processes get performed." Two Re- 

 search Series have already been published — the W averley Researches 

 in the Pathology of the Feeble-Minded (Memoirs of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. XIV, No. II. May, 1918; Vol. 

 XIV, No. III. December, 1921). In these researches Dr. Southard 

 and his associates have furnished a standard for scientific work in this 

 field. 



A general survey of the work done by Dr. Southard shows a growing 

 breadth of vision and steadily maturing genius, and those working in 

 this special field of medicine realize what a tragedy it was when it 

 was suddenly deprived of one of its most brilliant workers. 



C. M. Campbell. 



BARRETT WENDELL (1855-1921). 



Fellow in Class III, Section 4, 1889. 



Barrett Wendell, a member of this Academy since 1889 was born in 

 Boston on October 23, 1855, and died on February 9, 1921. He was 

 the son of Jacob and Mary Bartoldi (Barrett) W^endell. His first 

 American ancestor on the paternal side was Evart Jansen W'endell, 

 who came from Emden in East Friesland to New York about 1640 

 when some twenty-five years old. 



Entering Harvard with the Class of 1876, he was compelled by ill 

 health to leave college for a year; consequently he took his A.B. 

 degree with the Class of '77. During 1877-8 he attended the Harvard 

 Law School and later was a student in offices both in New York 

 and Boston, but his early intention to follow the law was abandoned 

 for the work of teaching and writing English following his appointment 

 in 1880 as an instructor at Harvard. He served the college in this 

 capacity until 1888 when he was made an Assistant Professor. Ten 



