CHAS. GORDON HEYD o attempt an odyssey of the professional career of Haven Emerson would be quite beyond the present limitations of time and be wholly inadequate to the occasion. Our guest represents the tenth generation of the Emerson family in America; his earliest direct male ancestor came to Ipswich, Massachusetts from Bishops-Stortford in England in i638. Thus, there is represented over 300 years of Yankee background. Dr. Emerson had the great advantage of a good environmental education, being the son of a physician and reared in the atmosphere of medical practice. The product of this background is about to receive a plaque from The New York Academy of Medicine honoring him for dis-tinguished serviceto the Academy. Dr. Emersonwas born inthe City of New York on October i9, 1874. He received an AB from Harvard in i896 and an AM from Columbia in i899, with a concurrent degree of MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. It is interesting to recall, as a time indicator, that in September I 899