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DR. GRIFFITH EVANS celebrated his hundredth birthday by an at home at Bangor on Wednesday, August 7 (see NATURE of August 3, p. 173). Ho had on the previous evening been visited by two voterinary colleagues, Capt. W-H. Savage and Sir Frederick Hobday. Although, through the bad luck of two very severe accidents involving fracture of each thigh, Dr. Evans is bedridden, his mental faculties are wonderfully alert. In accordance with his own request the presentation from his Alma Mater, the Royal Veterinary College, was the first of the series of the ceremonies which had been arranged to do him honour. Sir Frederick Hobday, in presenting the congratulatory scroll, said: “As a great pioneer we are proud of what you have done for veterinary science and we wish you continued good health to see still further, for many years to come, the progress in comparative medicine which was initiated by the discovery you made of tho parasites in the blood when investigating (whilst a veterinary officer in the British Army) the disease known as ‘surra’ in horses and camels”. The presentation scroll is framed in a piece of the wood of the old College. In acknowledging the presentation, Dr. Evans referred to his early years at the Royal Veterinary College and recalled characteristics of his teachers, Profs. Spooner, Simmons and Morton. After this address, a telegram sent on behalf of Their Majesties the King and Queen was handed to Dr. Evans; it read as follows:—“The King and Queen are much interested to hear to-day you are celebrating your hundredth birthday, and desire me to convey to you their hearty congratulations. Their Majesties arc aware of your distinguished services to veterinary science and send you their best wishes on this great anniversary.” Telegrams of congratulation were also received by Dr. Evans from H.R.H The Prince of Wales, Mr. Lloyd George, the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and the citizens of Bangor, among others.
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Dr. Griffith Evans's Centenary. Nature 136, 251 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136251a0
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