Dedicatory epistle to Professor Sir Peter MacCallum (1885-1974)
Date
1925
Description
Peter MacCallum was offered the position of Chair of Pathology at the University of Melbourne in 1924 upon the retirement of Sir Harry Brookes Allen (1854-1926), after forty-two years in the position. Students of the Melbourne Medical School wrote about him in the students’ magazine, Speculum, in an article entitled ‘Pathological Change', announcing that MacCallum must have been
"possessed of more that his fair share of that vague quality which the Americans inadequately call 'pep' and which we, with greater erudition, but no more adequacy, call 'personality'. And this is, above all things, a requisite for a teacher in the Medical School, where personal influence and example count almost as much as learning". ('Pathological Change', Speculum, 116, June 1925, p. 28)
This epistle was presented to Sir Peter MacCallum in November 1925 and signed by his Monday afternoon class members. Signatories include B T Zwar and J W Dunbar Hooper.
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