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G'odclard Nc(:on-ari Donaldson. His father mas a prosperous business mail and wlicii the boy arrived at school age he was sent to the I'liilips Academy, Aiidove~', .\-here he ciitcmxl heartily into the scliolastic life, foriiiiiig frieiidships that lasted tlirough succeeding years and manifesting in his studies a desire to excel, not iii a competitive spirit, but with the striving for thoroughiiess that cliaracterized all his later work. I n his racxtioiis theii and later lie sought the open spaces, visiting on one occasion the West aiid on another the coast of Labrador, a i d thus came into personal contact with the varied asixvth of Nature and developed a love f o r natiiral scieiicc that rletcrminecl his future career.
From Philips Academy he entered Yale 1-iiiversitp and graduated S . R . with the class of 1879. &re, too, he made many lasting friendships and increased his love for scientific studies. JTith graduatioii liatl come the time to choose his future coursc. It was his father's mish that lie should enter upoii a busiiiess eareei., but recogiiiziiig liis son's pi-edi-Ieclion f o r wience he compromised 011 the profession of medicine. Before elitel-ing upon his iiiedical studies, hoiwver, H c i i r ~~ s;peiit an adclitioiial year. at Yale, working mitli Piwfcssor Chi ttenclen on the distribution of arsenic in the various orgaiis of the body i n cases of arsenical poisoning. The results of this investigation we1-c publislied in a conjoint paper This biographical skctcli w a b prepared at t h e r e q i i r r t of t h P
The Wistar Institute of Anatoniv and Biology for incorporation in the minutes of the Institute. It is releaser1 for publication hy autlior~ty of the R o a d of Managers of the Institute.
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Professor Donaldsoii's colleagues of The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology and the Editorial Board of The Jourrial of Comparative Neurology join in extending to him on this seventy-fifth milestone of his distinguished career our felicitations and best wishes. He has won our esteem and affectio