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vier — great teachers both, who left their im- 

 press. 



Devoted to the study of structure, he yet 

 maintained, by reason of his early training 

 and the later contacts with Henry Bowditch, 

 a lively interest in the broader problems of 

 physiology; problems which must ever face 

 the serious student of structure. He was first 

 among us systematically to examine the phe- 

 nomenon of growth after birth, and those who 

 know anything of his history are familiar 

 with the tragedy whereby in a night his 

 whole colony of guinea-pigs, which he had 

 followed in their growth with unremitting 

 care for several years, and which he planned 

 to make the basis of a life-long study, was ut- 

 terly destroyed. This was a blow that only 

 those who have suffered from some form of 

 sudden and irreparable loss of their labors 

 can appreciate, and it left him for the moment 

 stunned. It was then that he plunged into 

 his embryological work and produced his mas- 

 terly book on human embryology, accompany- 

 ing it by the enlargement of that collection of 

 complete series of embryological sections 

 which became so great a feature of his labora- 

 tory, and of which he was so justly proud. 

 But the older interest never died, and many 

 who hardly knew the earlier man learned to 

 know him through his last book on " Age, 

 Growth and Death," in which he brought to- 

 gether in his lucid way his work and com- 

 ments on this fascinating theme. 



As a teacher he will long be remembered as 

 the man who made those with eyes to see. 

 Most of us would like our epitaph to run that 

 way; it stands for lasting work. 



When we move one side to get the larger 

 view of his activity, it is startling to sud- 

 denly recognize that this work of his in his- 

 tology and embryology — work which started 

 with the beginnings of such things in this 

 country — was conducted in a medical school. 

 I must confess that personally I was always 

 impressed by this. Of course it was as it 

 should be, but how seldom do such things oc- 

 cur. With Minot you were in the realm of 

 pure science, whether you found him in his 

 little dormer room on Bolyston street or in his 



marble hall of to-day. The technical atmos- 

 phere did not enter in; it was always the 

 scientific interest that you felt. Men have 

 worked with him, often I am sure, almost 

 without remembering that his laboratory was 

 counted as part of a professional school. To 

 have achieved such detachment, while doing 

 full justice to those who came to him for pro- 

 fessional training only, was a great art, and 

 betokens an unusual man. The teacher of 

 histology to Harvard medical students was a 

 one time president of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, presi- 

 dent of the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory and recently exchange professor at Ber- 

 lin. Fortunate the students who had such a 

 teacher, for the qualities of the man went into 

 his instruction. 



To dwell upon the man — ^the man as a force 

 — has been the purpose of these few words, 

 and perchance the better one knew Minot the 

 more the words will mean. At these Christ- 

 mas meetings, where he was so well known, 

 we shall miss our friend with his clear speech, 

 sure hand in the conduct of affairs and ready, 

 generous interest in each youthful searcher 

 after truth — and we shall remember him. 

 Henry H. Donaldson 



December 19, 1914 



SAMUEL FRANKLIN EMMONS MEMORIAL 

 FELLOWSHIP 



The friends of the late Dr. Samuel Frank- 

 lin Emmons have established a fund whose 

 income may be used in support of a fellow- 

 ship to promote investigations in the branches 

 of geology which were cultivated by him, more 

 especially on the economic side. The funds 

 have been placed in charge of the trustees of 

 Columbia University, but the choice of the 

 fellow and the expenditure of the income are 

 entrusted to a committee consisting of Pro- 

 fessors James F. Kemp, John D. Irving and 

 Waldemar Lindgren. The committee an- 

 nounces that it will be prepared to award in 

 March, 1915, a fellowship of $1,000 for the 

 year July 1, 1915 to June 30, 1916, inclusive. 

 Applications must be made on blanks which, 

 will be furnished by the secretary of Oolum- 



