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tract work. He was on the “ honor roll ” of the American Vet¬ 
erinary Medical Association, having joined that organization in 
1883. He was an active member, and had held offices in the 
Veterinary Medical Association of New York City. He was a 
prominent Mason, having been master of Excelsior Lodge, F. 
and A. M.; high priest of Jerusalem Chapter, New York, and 
Coeur de Lion Commandery, of that city. He was buried with 
Masonic service at Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City, April 
11, 1912. 
I11 1886 Dr. Critcherson married Miss Emma S. Davis, of 
New York, who survives him. He is also survived by one daugh¬ 
ter and three sons. 
HANNAH MARIE HOLLINGWORTH. 
Deep and sincere sympathy from veterinarians and their 
families all over the country is felt for Dr. and Mrs. Walter G. 
Hollingworth, of Utica, N. Y., who have suffered the saddest 
kind of affliction in the loss of their sweet, good, amiable and 
only child, Hannah Marie Hollingworth, who died on March 
28 at the tender age of fifteen years. She had been seriously ill 
since the middle of February, and was placed under the personal 
care of one of New York’s noted specialists; but, despite every 
effort and the most skillful treatment known to science, she suc¬ 
cumbed to the malady and went to rest with her Heavenly 
Father. 
Honors for Professor Koch—Institute in Which He 
Worked Shall Bear His Name, Says Kaiser. —Berlin, 
April 23.—111 connection with the thirtieth anniversary of Pro¬ 
fessor Koch’s announcement of his discovery of the tuberculosis 
bacillus the German Emperor has ordered the Royal Institute 
for the Study of Infectious Diseases, in Berlin, in which Pro¬ 
fessor Koch worked for twenty years, to bear Koch’s name 
hereafter. The Emperor, in his decree, says: 
“ Professor Koch, by his discovery, opened the combat 
against the greatest scourge of mankind, which has since been 
conducted with unprecedented success and has made suffering 
humanity his eternal debtor .”—(NezvYork Tribune , April 24.) 
