Prof. F. Weidenreich

THE distinguished anatomist Dr. Frank Weidenreich died after a short illness in New York on July 11, 1948, at the age of seventy-five. Although he was known to the present generation primarily for his work in the field of human palaeontology, he had in the early part of his career gained a considerable reputation as a histologist. After taking his doctorate of medicine in the University of Strassburg in 1899, he joined the staff of the department of anatomy and studied under Prof. Schwalbe, and in 1904 he was appointed professor of anatomy. His interests at that time Were concentrated on the blood-forming tissues of the body and he contributed a series of papers on the histology of the spleen and the blood-lymph system. Some of these papers, it is interesting to note, are still quoted as standard references.