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human qualities. By his death on November 14, 1919, in Boston, 

 his comminiity lost its foremost figure, and his country a pattern of 

 the highest patriotism. 



M. A. DeWolfe Howe. 



FRANKLIN PAINE MALL (1862-1917). 



Fellow in Class II, Section 3, 1901. 



Franklin Paine Mall, 1862-1917, was born in Iowa of German 

 extraction, his father being one of the 1848 immigrants. Nothing is 

 known of his boyhood education, which was mainly in a boarding 

 school near his home. He studied medicine in the University of 

 Michigan, and received the ]\I.D. degree in 1883, before attaining his 

 majority. He then went to Germany and spent several A^ears in study 

 at Heidelberg and Leipzig, at the latter place in the laboratories of 

 Ludwig and His, these being men of the highest rank in science and 

 who exerted a great influence on his life. From 1886 to 1889 he was 

 Fellow and Instructor in Pathology at the Johns Hopkins LTniversity 

 under Professor Wm. H. Welch, from 1889 to 1892 Adjunct Professor 

 of Vertebrate Anatomy at Clark LTniversity, and from 1892 to 1893 

 Professor of Anatomy at the University of Chicago. He returned to 

 Baltimore in 1893 as Professor of Anatomy in the newly formed Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School, which position he held to his death, being 

 also the Director of the Carnegie Institute of Embryology which was 

 established at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1912. 



Such are the brief facts concerning the official career of the man who, 

 in the great renaissance of medicine during the last fifty years probably 

 did more in America than any other man to make possible this rebirth 

 and growth. He was a great teacher, as such bringing to medical 

 teaching the ideal that knowledge is to be sought not in lectures or 

 books but by the study of nature, the student acquiring primary 

 knowledge by independent work which might be extended by reading 

 and at the same time receiving training in scientific methods which 

 would increase individual power. This method at the time of its in- 

 duction was novel, was resisted by both students and faculty, but was 

 steadily carried out in his laboratory, and has become the accepted 

 method of the best teachers. 



