Obituary

Dr. Walker Bremsen Brinckerhoff '97, Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Medical School, died suddenly yesterday morning, after a week's illness, of pneumonia.

Dr. Brinckerhoff was born in 1874 in Fishkill, N. Y. He attended the Lawrence Scientific School from 1893 to 1897, when he entered the Medical School, obtaining the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1901. Except for short absences, he has taught Pathology at the Harvard Medical School since 1903. He took part in the Carnegie Archaeological Expedition in 1905, and was a member of the United States Government Leprosy Investigation Commission from 1906 to 1910, which was instituted to consider the conditions existing on Mokolai Island.