IN MEMORIAM 



CHRISTIAN ARCHIBALD HERTER 



Minutes adopted unanimously by a rising vote at the meeting 



of the Faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 



of Columbia University, on January i6, igii 



"The Faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons desires 

 to express formally its deep sorrow at the death of Christian Archi- 

 bald Herter, late Professor of Pharmacology in this College. 



"To some members of this body a close personal friend and 

 professional associate for many years, Dr. Herter represented to 

 the faculty at large a most valued colleague, whose Sterling personal 

 character and high scientific attainments elicited uniformly the 

 sincere admiration and respect of all privileged to come into closer 

 contact with him. 



" Outside of the circle of the faculty, in the institution at large, 

 and in the wider scope of his manifold activities, in and beyond 

 New York, Dr. Herter stood preeminently as a representative of the 

 true scientific spirit on which the modern advances of medical 

 research, education, and practice depend. 



" It seems peculiarly sad that his death occurred so near to the 

 time when the College, which he served with such ability and keen 

 interest in his work, is approaching a period in the development of 

 its medical education and investigations, in which many of his 

 proposals and ideals are to be realized and carried into effect. He 

 would have been, if spared to his share in the work of the impend- 

 ing reorganization of the school, one of our most valuable forces 

 in Council and in practical execution. 



"In expressing our grief and our profound sense of personal 

 and institutional loss, we may also gratefully realize that Dr. 

 Herter's influence and example are still actively with us, and of real 

 aid in our endeavor to accomplish the work before us sanely, con- 

 scientiously, in the spirit of advancing science, and for the true better- 

 ment of our calling in all of its manifold relations to humanity." 



Samuel W. Lambert, Dean. 



