It is impossible in the space available to detail all of Dr. Fox's contributions to his chosen field of neuroanatomy. Suffice it to say that he was one of the earliest students of the Michigan School of comparative neuroanatomy to use experimental methods in his studies of the connections of the basal forebrain and hypothalamus; that for many years he was one of the few American workers to successfully exploit the Golgi method, and that his collection of Golgi material of the monkey (prepared by his own zinc chromate modification of the Golgi method) is among the finest i n the country (and generously made available to other workers); that his knowledge of Cajal's work is unparalleled; that his translation (with Ubeda-Purkiss) of Cajal's Neuron Theory or Reticular Theory is a most valuable contribution to English-speaking workers; and finally, that his many papers on the organization and connections of the cerebellum and basal ganglia are, by common consent, among the most significant in their respective areas.
No enumeration of his published scientific work, however complete, would do justice to the totality of his contribution to the neurosciences. A complete list of Dr. Fox's publications (as of February, 1976) is appended below, but such a list cannot convey any indication of his kindness to successive generations of medical students, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, to his generosity to his colleagues, to his willingness to serve on national and local communities, and above all, to his quite remarkable humility. No scientist of comparable stature is more self-effacing or more willing to listen to the arguments of those less qualified to speak than himself. No one has been more diffident to voice a harsh work of criticism, or quicker to praise the contributions of others, and especially the contributions of younger scientists.