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human race, but because they make an irre- 

 sistible appeal by reason of an inner 

 beauty. Some of the greatest investigators 

 indeed have been fascinated by problems 

 of immediate utility as well as by those 

 that deal with abstract conceptions only. 

 Helmholtz invented the ophthalmoscope and 

 thus made modern ophthalmology passible, 

 and at the same time did work of the high- 

 est order in theoretical physics and wrote 

 on the nature of the mathematical axioms 

 -and the principles of psychology. Lord 

 Kelvin took out patents on great improve- 

 ments in the compass and on oversea teleg- 

 raphy, and also made contributions to our 

 knowledge of the ultimate constitution of 

 the atom and the properties of the ether. 

 From this point of view the investigator is 

 a man whose inner life is free in the best 

 sense of the word. In short, there should 

 be in research work a cultural character, 

 an artistic quality, elements that give to 

 painting, music and poetry their high place 

 in the life of man. 



Ladies and gentlemen, I have attempted 

 in this hour to point out some recent ad- 

 vances that have been made in the study of 

 the blood and of the organs of internal 

 secretion, and have cited the beneficent 

 effects of even these small advances — a very 

 few bright stars in a darkened sky — in 

 order to emphasize the great role that 

 chemistry is destined to play in biology and 

 medicine. I have strongly urged that those 

 who are to be medical teachers and investi- 

 gators should not content themselves with 

 a mere smattering, but endeavor to acquire 

 a really sound training in one of the funda- 

 mental sciences. 



Tou, my colleagues, working with open- 

 minded and generous trustees, must see to 

 it that the men selected for important posts 

 shall be those that are capable of training 

 and inspiring the young men who in their 

 turn will furnish the leadership of the 

 future. 



In our country many agencies combine 

 to foster the higher learning. It is to the 

 lasting honor of men of wealth that they 

 have appreciated the need for institutes of 

 research and in a number of notable in- 

 stances have placed large sums at the dis- 

 posal of science. They have responded 

 nobly to that appeal of Pasteur which I 

 have already cited in which he calls labo- 

 ratories "the temples of the future, of 

 riches and of comfort." 



John J. Abel 



The Johns Hopkins Medical School 



CEABLES WILLIAM PBENTISS 



Charles William Prentiss, professor o£ 

 microscopic anatomy in the Northwestern 

 University Medical School, died at Chicago on 

 the twelfth day of June. Bom in Washington, 

 D. C, August 14, 1874, he spent many of his 

 early years at Middlebury, Vermont. 



His undergraduate work was done at Middle- 

 bury College, where his father. Dr. Charles E. 

 Prentiss, was librarian. He was graduated 

 with honors in 1896 but remained there an- 

 other year as a graduate student. During the 

 next three years he was at Harvard University 

 in the department of zoology. Here he re- 

 ceived the degree of doctor of philosophy in 

 1900. The following year was spent at the 

 Harvard Medical School as instructor in anat- 

 omy. He was then awarded a Parker Travel- 

 ing Fellowship and studied in Europe for two 

 years. Although the greater part of this time 

 was spent at Freiburg and Naples his work 

 with Bethe at Strassburg had the more impor- 

 tant influence on his career. 



On his return to America he held appoint- 

 ments successively in the zoological depart- 

 ments of Western Reserve University and the 

 University of Washington, Seattle. While in 

 the latter place he first developed the symptoma 

 of duodenal ulcer from which he suffered for 

 the last eight years. He came to Northwestern 

 University Medical School as assistant pro- 

 fessor of anatomy in 1909 and was made pro- 

 fessor of microscopic anatomy in 1913. 



