GEORGE W. CORNER was born in Baltimore and 

 studied at The Johns Hopkins University and its medical 

 school. He holds honorary degrees from the Catholic Uni- 

 versity of Chile, the University of Rochester, Boston Uni- 

 versity, Tulane, Temple, Oxford and the University of 

 Chicago. Now professor emeritus of embryology at Johns 

 Hopkins, Dr. Corner has also taught at the University of 

 California, Rochester and Oxford, and has held chairs 

 both at the Carnegie Institute and at the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute. He is an honorary member and fellow of many 

 American and foreign societies in the fields of anatomy 

 and embryology and is the author of numerous books in 

 those fields, as well as in medical history. He lives in 

 Philadelphia where he is the Executive Officer of the 

 Amepican Philosophical Society. 



