In Memoriam: Ellsworth C. DoughertyAuthor(s): John O. CorlissSource: Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, Vol. 85, No. 1 (Jan., 1966), p. 174Published by: Wiley on behalf of American Microscopical SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3224790 .

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174 PROCEEDINGS

A vote of thanks was extended to the current Editor, Dr. Prescott, and an announcement was made of his election to Honorary Membership in the Society.

Dr. Corliss, as Chairman of the Resolutions Committee, read the following: Mr. Chairman:

The American Microscopical Society wishes to place on record the following resolution: Be it here acknowledged that we are deeply indebted to the American Institute of Bi-

ological Sciences, in conjunction and cooperation with the University of Illinois, for providing such a splendid meeting site here in Champaign-Urbana and for having such tasteful fore- sight with regard to the many wishes and requirements, and occasionally even whims, of our Society and its membership during our most enjoyable stay on this pleasant campus.

May our appreciation be especially and specifically extended to the Co-Chairmen of the Committee on Local Arrangements, Dr. Norman D. Levine and Mrs. Alice S. Hurt, and to our Society's hard-laboring Local Representative, Professor emeritus Dr. Lyle J. Thomas, for their long hours of thoughtful advance planning and for their energetic and cheerful help in times of minor emergency during the current week. The success of our meetings this year, in large measure, has been due to the activities of these persons, who have worked quietly but most efficiently, and always in our behalf, with representatives and staffs of AIBS and of the University of Illinois during many months of the busy academic year just passed.

Finally, not to be neglected in this moment of gratitude are the members of our own Society who have contributed such fine papers and elaborate demonstrations. In this regard special thanks are due Dr. D. L. DeGiusti, our most active Program Chairman, and his alert and charming Number One helper.

Mr. Chairman, I should like to present this resolution to the membership here assembled as a motion, with the request that it be recorded in the published notes of our Society and that copies of it be distributed to the appropriate persons. Signed: John O. Corliss, Chairman, Resolutions Committee, August 18, 1965. Urbana, Illinois.

This Resolution was accepted wholeheartedly by general agreement. In the regretted absence of Past President H. H. Hobbs, Dr. David L. Nanney gave

a well-received address on his researches with ciliated Protozoa. The meeting adjourned at 2:30 P.M.

Ellsworth C. Dougherty, a one-time active member of our Society and well known to many microscopists the world over, passed away on 21 December 1965, in Berkeley, California, at the age of 44. Thus was lost one of the most productive and brilliant young men in biology in America today.

Dr. Dougherty, a physician as well as a "Ph.D.," was a man of many talents. Perhaps best known in recent years as a comparative biologist, he was also-- on the one hand-a biochemist, a cytologist, a geneticist; on the other, a nematolo- gist, a parasitologist, a protozoologist. Then, too, he was a taxonomist without peer, often focusing his energies on the intricacies of nomenclatural rules and regulations. His contributions to fields of evolution and phylogeny also were many. He was a prolific creator of neologisms; and, not unexpectedly, a scholar of languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese (not to mention Latin and Greek). His perfectionism with respect to word usage and spelling was not unknown to editors of biological journals!

Dr. Dougherty is survived by his wife, Ching-yi, and a son, Brian. Recognized as a genius by many in the scientific world, he leaves behind not only over a hundred publications of significance but an inspired group of younger biologists who will long keep alive the memory of his work, so much of which was of the highest pioneering kind. JOHN O. CORLISS

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