his sixty-ninth birthday, Professor Bo Vahlquist was laid to rest. A sufferer from leukemia, the gravity of which he fully realized, he had passed away peacefully on March 31. In him we have lost an outstanding research worker, an unexampled teacher, and a man who never tired of caring for suffering children, especially in the Third World.
Vahlquist studied under Wallgren and was the most senior of the whole series of prominent pediatricians, all of them scientists active in their field, who came from that famous school. He was also a close personal friend of Wallgren himself. At the beginning of the fifties Vahlquist was called to the Chair of Pediatrics of the University of Uppsala. Under his leadership, the university clinic attained great scientific renown.
Vahlquist's scientific writings, comprising as they do some hundred separate published works, cannot be discussed in detail here. Only a few salient items may be mentioned. Vahlquist's first series of scientific investigations was in the field of hematology. He was the first to describe what is called 'constitutional hypochromic iron deficiency anemia in pediatric patients.' His famous monograph