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hausted that he knew he could not last much 
longer. 
Forced to abandon him if they were to survive, 
Koch, Inukitsok and Boatsman went slowly, on 
farther. Just as they were about to give up en- 
tirely, they killed two caribou that kept them alive 
until relief came from Etah. 
Later in the fall, I went up to bury Dr. Wulff, 
but I could not find his body because of the dark- 
ness. 
Dr. Wulff has done a very fine piece of work, 
both botanical and zoological, along the whole coast 
that he traversed. Koch has also done good work. 
He succeeded in mapping accurately the whole 
coast along which the party traveled, including 
several hitherto unknown fjords. He found the 
former maps inaccurate in many places. He has 
moreover brought back a few Silurian and Cam- 
brian fossils from far north. 
Koch is not yet (February 23, 1918) quite well, 
but now that we have brought him to Upernivik 
and the care of Dr. Bryder and the other good 
people here, he is fast regaining his strength and 
health. 
This excerpt narrates without embellish- 
ment one more of the incidents that make the 
annals of the North so full of tragedy. The 
name of Dr. Thorild Wulff is one more added 
to the long list of heroes lost in Arctic serv- 
ice. Sweden may well be proud to claim him. 
W. Emer Exsiaw 
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
RETIREMENT OF DEAN EDWARD H. BRADFORD 
OF THE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL 
Arter thirty-eight years of service on the 
faculty of the Harvard Medical School, Dr. 
Edward H. Bradford, has tendered his resig- 
nation to take effect on September 1. At the 
Commencement exercises President Lowell 
announced a gift of $25,000 from an anony- 
mous source to found the Edward Hickling 
Bradford fellowship, which is to be used for 
research or instruction separately or in con- 
nection with any other foundation at the 
Harvard Medical School in such manner as 
the Harvard Corporation may from time to 
time prescribe. Dr. Frederick C. Shattuck, 
Jackson professor of, clinical medicine emer- 
itus, pays the following tribute to Dean Brad- 
ford in the current issue of the Harvard 
Alumni Bulletin: 
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It were unpardonable, even in these stressful 
days, to allow the resignation of Dr. Bradford as 
dean of the faculty of medicine to pass unnoticed. 
Six years ago, just at the time he had freed 
himself from hospital work, and had also resigned 
the professorship of orthopedic surgery of which 
he was the first incumbent, putting aside the pros- 
pect of well-earned leisure and realizing that his 
private work was likely to suffer, he listened to the 
call and assumed the deanship. Almost year by 
year the work of the dean’s office has increased 
with the growth of the medical school, with the ex- 
pansion and complexity of its activities. It had 
been his intention not to hold office more than five 
years; but the exigencies growing out of the war, 
into which we had just entered, seemed to make it 
desirable for him to add another year. 
Among the developments which have occurred 
during his tenure of office may be mentioned: the 
graduate school of medicine so ably headed by Dr. 
Arnold; the school of tropical medicine under Dr. 
Strong; the school for health officers under the 
joint charge of the department of preventive medi- 
cine and the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
ogy; the further extension of preventive medicine 
into the fertile field of industrial health and oceu- 
pational disease, the plans for the opening of which 
in the coming September are now being laid out; 
entrance examinations have been revised so as to 
permit greater elasticity without letting down the 
bars. A new system of examinations leading to 
the M.D. degree has been applied. 
The Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission was 
appointed in September, 1916, following the epi- 
demic of that summer, and is still active. As a 
member of the committee on education of the 
American Medical Association Dr. Bradford kept 
in close toucn with nation-wide thougnt on this 
subject, and made Harvard influence felt. 
It was due to Dr. Bradford’s firmness that 
fourth-year teaching was carried on through the 
summer of 1917 in Harvard and Columbia, enab- 
ling students to graduate in March. 
In these and many other matters, Dr. Bradford 
has taken initiative, or given sympathetic encour- 
agement or guidance. There has been a notable 
increase in the number of students, both under 
graduate and graduate in the six years he has 
been dean. ‘‘Well done, good and faithful ser- 
vant.’? 
THE CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE 
By order of the Secretary of War General 
Peyton ©. March has issued under date of 
June 28, the following general orders: 
