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an inspiring teacher and a leader of research in his chosen field. His 

 friends and colleagues rejoiced in his achievements as if they had 

 belonged in part to them; and they will cherish the memory of his 

 happy and useful life.^ 



Edmund B. Wilson. 



ELMER ERNEST SOUTHARD (1876-1920). 



Fellow in Class II, Section 4, 1911. 



Dr. Elmer Ernest Southard died in New York City on February 8, 

 1920 after a very brief illness at the age of forty-three. 



When stricken down by the fatal infection he was busily engaged 

 in making a series of communications dealing with his special field of 

 work. He was at the height of his power, and his accompHshments 

 might well be considered an earnest of still richer productivity in 

 the years to come. A man of incessant industry, with a keen and alert 

 intellect, restlessly searching after the solution of age-long problems, 

 he had a personality which won him many warm friendships, and a 

 talent for inspiring his associates and pupils. 



After an education in the public schools of Boston, and at Harvard 

 College, he graduated from the Medical School in 1901. Immediately 

 after graduation he began to occupy himself with that sphere of in- 

 vestigation with which he later continued to identify himself so closely. 

 He became early associated with the pathological work of the Massa- 

 chusetts State Hospitals for the Insane. In 1909 he became Bullard 

 Professor of Neuropathology. In 1912 he was appointed Director of 

 the newly established Boston Psychopathic Hospital (at that time 

 called the Psychopathic Department of the Boston State Hospital). 



The value of a scientific worker is only in part to be estimated by 

 the published results of his personal investigations. Equally im- 

 portant may be the influence of the worker on associates and pupils, 

 on the community where he lives, on the whole body of professional 

 workers who are working in the same field as himself. The influence 



1 The writer desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to appreciative reviews 

 of Professor Sedgwick's life and work by two of his former pupils, Samuel C. 

 Prescott {Technology Review for April, 1921) and C. E. A. Winslow {Journal oj 

 Bacteriology, May, 1921). 



