Prof. W. P. Lombard

Abstract

THE death of Warren Plimpton Lombard at the age of eighty-four years removes one of the last direct links between the laboratory of Carl Ludwig and experimental physiology in the United States—a link with which American physiologists, like those of Britain, have always been proud. Born on May 29, 1855, the son of Israel Lombard by his wife, Mary Ann Plimpton, he was descended on both sides of his family from Puritan stock which had emigrated to the American continent early in the seventeenth century. He was born and spent his boyhood in West Newton, Massachusetts, and obtained his preparatory education in the public schools of that town. He received his baccalaureate degree from Harvard in 1878; and also an M.D., Harvard, in 1881.