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come to us Germans?" asked Professor Cohnheim. "There is a 

 young American perfectly competent to take that professorship. 

 He is going to be one of the world's greatest authorities in the 

 science of pathology. Why don't you ask him to become the 

 professor at Johns Hopkins?" "Who is he? What is his 

 name?" asked Dr. Gilman's emissary. "His name is William 

 H. Welch, and the world is going to hear of him." President 

 Gilman began negotiations which resulted in securing the services 

 of Dr. Welch for Johns Hopkins, where he has ever since remained. 

 Professor Welch's brilliant careei may well be illustrated by the 

 honors which have been conferred upon him in this and other 

 countries. He received the honorary degree of M.D. from the 

 University of Pennsylvania; of LL.D. from the Western Reserve 

 University, from Yale, from Harvard, from Toronto, from Colum- 

 bia, from Jefferson Medical College, from Princeton, from Wash- 

 ington University, and from the University of Chicago. He has 

 been president of the Maryland State Board of Health since 1898 ; 

 president of the Board of Directors of the Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research since 1901 ; and trustee of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington since 1906. He was Huxley lecturer at 

 the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in London in 1902, 

 president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland 

 from 1891 to 1892, president of the Congress of American Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons in 1897, president of the Association of 

 American Physicians in 1901, of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science from 1906 to 1907, of the American 

 Medical Association from 1910 to 1911, of the National Academy 

 of Science from 1913 to 1916, and of the American Social Hygiene 

 Association in 1916. Dr. Welch is a fellow of the Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences and of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 

 an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and of 

 the Royal Sanitary Institute, London, and honorary member of 

 the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, foreign 

 associate of the Academy of Medicine, Paris, and of the Royal 

 Academy of Medicine of Belgium, and an honorary member of 

 the medical societies of Berlin and Vienna. He was chairman of 

 the Section on Pathology and Bacteriology of the Sixth Inter- 

 national Congress on Tuberculosis. He has been decorated by 



