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teacher of undergraduates. A bed-to-bed ward visit was almost an 

 impossibility for him. If he was interested he would spend an in- 

 terminable time over a single patient, reviewing the history, taking 

 notes, having sketches made, carrying the problem to the laboratory 

 and perhaps working on it for weeks. Meanwhile his associates and 

 assistants would run his clinic as best they could. In this way his 

 school developed — none of his pupils after his own fashion, to be 

 sure — it would have been impossible to imitate him — all of them, 

 nevertheless, influenced enormously by his attitude toward surgery, 

 and by his operative methods. 



His loss to the Johns Hopkins Hospital which he served so faith- 

 fully and long, and to which he bequeathed his property, will be 

 irreparable. It will be equally so to his many and devoted disciples. 

 One of his long series of resident-surgeons, who, as others have done, 

 came to know him better after leaving his service, just as many sons 

 learn to know their fathers not until after they have grown up, has 

 in all respect and affection written this inadequate note of apprecia- 

 tion. 



" Who knows whether the best of men be known, whether there be 

 not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered 

 in the known account of time?" 



Harvey Cushing. 



MARCUS PERRIN KNOWLTON (1839-1918). 



Fellow in Class III, Section 1, 1911. 



Marcus Perrin Knowlton, son of Merrick and Fatima (Perrin) 

 Knowlton, was born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, February 3, 1839. 

 Little is known of his boyhood. He is remembered as an earnest 

 student at Munson Academy where he received his early instruction. 

 He took high rank in his class of 1860 at Yale. He depended largely 

 upon his own exertions to meet the expenses of his education. He 

 taught at Westfield and in the Hopkins Grammar School at New 

 Haven, and, for a short time after his graduation from Yale, he was 

 principal of the Union School at Norwalk, Connecticut. The destruc- 

 tion of this school by fire and the consequent interruption of his occu- 



