THE AMERICAN 



MONTHLY 



MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 



VOL. XVII. JANUARY, 1896. No. i. 



Dr. William C. Krauss, 



WITH FKONTISPIECE. 



The maxim that a prophet is not without honor save in 

 his own country lias been often quoted to represent men 

 of various professions, but will not apply in the case of 

 the representative whose portrait appears above, for 

 where he spent his childhood and youth and received his 

 education in the arts and sciences preparatory to a higher 

 plane of active life ameliorating the sufferings of hu- 

 manity, he is highly honored by his former associates 

 and citizens of his native town. William Christopher 

 Krauss was born in Attica, N. Y., October 15th, 1863, 

 and is the son of Andrew and Magdalena Krauss. He 

 entered the Attica Union School in 1870 and graduated as 

 valedictorian of his class in 1880. He entered Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, N. Y., in the ensuing autumn, taking 

 a scientific course and received the Horace K. White 

 prize in veterinary science in 1883 ; he graduated in 

 1884, receiving the degree "Bachelor of Science" and a 

 two years' certificate for extra work done in the Medical 

 Preparatory Course, special final honors in anatomy and 

 the publication of his graduating thesis " On the nervous 

 system of the head of the larva of Corydalus cornutus, 

 Linn.," by the faculty-in "Psyche," a well known entomo- 

 logical journal. Young Krauss then entered the Bellevue 

 Hospital Medical College in New York City that fall and 

 graduated as Doctor in Medicine in 1886, standing second 



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