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daily in our cities. In response to my sending him a copy of 

 "Jock of the Bushveld" during- his last illness he wrote: 

 "I have read it and it just hits my 'tender' spot. If this 

 book appeals so strongly to you, then your heart and mine 

 are tuned with the same strings. The style it is written in 

 is wonderful and one must have come from the woodlands 

 to appreciate it fully!" 



Just as the doctor must work with human material dead 

 and alive to gain knowledge for the better understanding 

 of man in health and disease, so also he realized that man 

 must work with animals dead and alive to understand better 

 the processes which are in control of man and animals in 

 health and in the fight against disease. Both groups benefitted 

 from his researches. In all his work with animals, and I 

 may add with men, he treated them with kindness and 

 consideration. 



The most cursory glance at Doctor Stockard's career reveals 

 two striking characteristics; the magnitude of his successes 

 and the extended front along which they were achieved, the 

 conquest of any one of which might be the life ambition of a 

 less skilled, less daring explorer in research. Doctor Stockard 

 possessed a charm of manner which was at once compelling 

 and contagious. He did not need to make claims for himself ; 

 he won high honors because he was a man of ability who 

 had succeeded. 



It is regrettable indeed that Doctor Stockard could not 

 have lived to complete his work. The manuscript presented 

 is as he left it — unfinished. 



William Sargext Ladd 



For the Committee 



When Doctor Stockard conceived the idea of using the dog- 

 to test experimentally his views on the endocrinic basis of 

 constitution, he was not fully aware of the difficulties and 

 vastness of the undertaking. In order to avoid loss of valuable 

 time until proper arrangements for experimental work could 



