The Association made a wise choice at the Atlantic City session in selecting as president-elect for the coming year a scientist whose name and work are known throughout the scientific world, a pathologist whose study and research work have placed him in the front rank of his specialty, a teacher of unusual ability, and a man of charming personality, Dr. William Henry Welch of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
He was born in Norfolk, Conn., April 8, 1850, the son of Dr. William Wickham Welch and Emeline Collin. His university education was received at Yale, from which he was graduated in 1870 with the degree of A.B., and his medical studies were undertaken at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, from which he was graduated in the class of 1875. He took postgraduate work in Strassburg, Leipzig, Breslau, and Berlin from 1876 to 1878 and in 1884 and