e true teacher. He had the air
of loving his task, old story as it was to him. Most of his auditors
were mere students, yet he appealed to them as earnestly as if they
were associates and equals. He seemed to try to put himself on their
level--to make his thought near to them. Physically he was near to them
as he talked, the platform on which he stood being but a few inches
in height, and such physical nearness conduces to a familiarity of
discourse that is best fitted for placing lecturer and hearers _en
rapport_. All in all, appealing as it does almost equally to ear and
eye, it is a type of what a lecturer should be. Not a student there but
went away with an added fund of information, which is far more than can
be said of most of the lectures in a German university.

Needless to say, there are other departments to the Institute of
Pathology. There are collections of beautifully preserved specimens for
examination; rooms for practical experimentation in all phases of the
subject, the chemical side included; but these are not very different
from the similar departments of similar institutions everywhere. What
was unique and characteristic about this institution was the personality
of the director. Now he is gone, but his influence will not soon be
forgotten. The pupils of a great teacher are sure to carry forward the
work somewhat in the spirit of the master for at least a generation.

THE BERLIN INSTITUTE OP HYGIENE

I purposely refrain from entering into any details as to the character
of the technical work done at the Virchow Institute, because the subject
of pathology, despite its directly practical bearings, is in itself
necessarily somewhat removed from the knowledge of the general reader.
One cannot well understand the details of changes in tissues under
abnormal conditions unless one first understands the normal conditions
of the tissues themselves, and such knowledge is reserved for the
special students of anatomy. For the nonprofessional observer the
interest of the Virchow Institute must lie in its general scope rather
than in the details of the subjects there brought under investigation,
which latter have, indeed, of necessity, a somewhat grewsome character
despite the beneficent results that spring from them. It is quite
otherwise, however, with the work of the allied institution of which I
now come to speak. The Institute of Hygiene deals with topics not very
remote from those studied in the Virchow I