Dr. Charles Sedgwick Minot, B.S. '78, internationally famous as an anatomist, author and lecturer, died Thursday at the age of 62 at his home in Milton, after an illness of several months. A graduate of Technology and with various degrees received from Harvard, Yale, Toronto, St. Andrews and Oxford, Dr. Minot held from 1880 until 1912 various professorships in the University Medical School. In 1912 he was exchange professor at the Universities of Jena and Berlin.
In addition to his work as an educator he invented two forms of microtomes and was author of several books on biological subjects. At the time of his death he was president of the Boston Society of Natural History.
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