CHARLES SEDG\YICK Ml NOT. S!l 
Address hy Dk. Chahlks W. Kliot. 
I wish to (hvoll in this paper, not on the scientific attainiiients and 
successes of Charles Sedgwick Minot, but on the mental and moral 
qualities which his career illustrates, anrl which made him what he was. 
Yoimji' Minot did not follow the traditional course of education for 
the son of a well-to-do Boston lawyer. He did not go to Harvard 
College, but to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and his 
first degree, that of Bachelor of Science, was obtained from that 
technical School. His major subject in that School was not the 
common one of engineering, but the less conmion one of chemistry. 
He later pursued his studies at Leipzig, Paris, and Wiirzlnirg, 
and then returned to Boston, and took the degree of Doctor of 
Science at Harvard University in 1S7S, in the subject of Natural 
History. His education, therefore, show^ed his determination in fol- 
lowing his bent, and his independence in parting from his boyhood 
associates aufl his family's habitual practice in regard to the 
eflucation of sons. 
Then, as now, the only career open to students of Natural History 
was a professorship in some branch of that subject ; but this was not 
the career to which Minot looked forward. His studies were all 
histological and embryological ; and their most practical and useful 
applications seemed to him to lie somewhere in the field of medical 
science and education. 
Two years later he accepted two appointments in connection with 
Harvard University: one an appointment as Lecturer on Embryology 
in the Medical School; the other an appointment as Instructor in 
Oral Pathology and Surgery in the Dental School. These appoint- 
ments were procured for him with some difficulty; for he was not a 
Doctor of Medicine, and it was an unwelcome idea for the Methcal 
Faculty that any instruction whatever should be given in the Medical 
School by a person who had never taken the degree of Doctor of !Medi- 
cine. He accepted both these appointments with alacrity, although 
dentistry was not recognized then as a medical specialty; and imme- 
diately showed himself to be a competent lecturer and laboratory 
teacher in subjects which depended on the facile use of the microscope 
by both teacher and students. The place he took in the Dental 
School had just previously been filled by Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot, 
wlio had shown by his acceptance of that appointment his sympathy 
