DINNER TO PROFESSOR CHITTENDEN 

 Testimonial by his pupils 



In December, 191 1, a nnml^er of the former pupils of Prof. 

 Russell H. Chittenden, at a Conference in P)altimore. concluded " that 

 the time had arrived when it would be appropriate to provide some 

 formal expression of the esteem in which Professor Chittenden is 

 held by those who appreciate his contributions to physiological chem- 

 istry and education." Drs. S. W. Lambert, F. S. Meara, Holmes 

 C. Jackson, S. P. Beebe, and William J. Gies were requested to 

 serve as a provisional committee of five, to consider the matter 

 further and to proceed with Organization and execution of plans, 

 "if some step in this direction seemed appropriate, after further 

 consideration." 



The pro\-isional committee of five decided to organize Professor 

 Chittenden's pupils for the purpose indicated, and invited twenty 

 additional former pupils of Professor Chittenden's to serve with 

 them as a Committee of Twenty Five, as follows : John A. Hartwell, 

 chainiiaii, T. S. Arbuthnot, S. P. Beebe, Joseph A. Blake, Harvey 

 Cushing, H. H. Donaldson, Isadore Dyer, P. B. Hawk, Theodore 

 C. Janeway, Elliott P. Joslin, J. H. ^[. Knox, Samuel W. Lambert, 

 P. A. Levene, Frank S. ]Meara, Lafayette B. Mendel, Charles Norris, 

 Thomas B. Osborne, Alfred N. Richards, E. AV. Rockwood, W. T. 

 Sedgwick, W. Gilman Thompson, H. Gideon Wells, E. B. Wilson, 

 Holmes C. Jackson, trcasiircr, and William J. Gies, sccrctary. The 

 Committee of Twenty-Five rec[uested Drs. Hartwell, Beebe, Jane- 

 way, Jackson, and Gies to serve as a subcommittee for the execu- 

 tion of the committee's plans. 



The general committee has invited Professor Chittenden's pupils 

 to coöperate in raising a Russell H. Cli'ittcndcn Fund, to be pre- 

 sented to the Yale corporation without any other condition than that 

 it be used for the advancement of the work of the department of 

 physiological chemistry in the Sheffield Scientific School. 



The committee also authorized the secretary to invite Professor 



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