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WILLIAM THOMPSON SEDGWICK 



MEMORIAL LECTURE 



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DELIVERED IN HUNTINGTON HALL, 

 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, DECEMBER 29, 1922 



For the purpose of commemorating the services of William Thomp- 

 son Sedgwick to the cause of Biology and Public Health there has 

 been established a Memorial Lectureship in the department of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology which he created. The desire 

 of the founders is that the Sedgwick Memorial Lectures shall be 

 given from year to year by men of distinguished eminence in any one 

 of the subjects comprehended within the general scope of Biology and 

 Public Health in order that it may fittingly express the deep and 

 broad sympathy of the man whom the Lectureship is designed to 

 honor. 



