Dr. Stewart Dies

DR. COLIN C. STEWART, Brown Professor of Physiology at Dartmouth, died January 22 in Dick's House, where he had been confined for three weeks following a stroke. Although he had reached the retirement age of 70 last August, he continued to teach this year in the Dartmouth Medical School, in which he also served as professor.

Dr. Stewart had been a member of the Dartmouth faculty for the past forty years, joining the medical school staff as associate professor in 1904. He became full professor there in 1907 and in the following year was named Brown Professor of Physiology. He served as secretary of the Dartmouth Medical School from 1913 to 1924, and in 1925 and 1926 was Acting Dean of the school. Dartmouth College in 1909 awarded him an honorary M. A. degree.

Dr. Stewart was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, in 1873, the son of Rev. Colin C. and Elizabeth McOuat Stewart. He graduated from the University of Ontario in 1894 and three years later took his Ph.D. at Clark University. He was Assistant in Physiology at the Harvard Medical School in 1897; tutor at Columbia from 1898 to 1900; and demonstrator, later assistant professor, of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania medical school from 1900 until he came to Dartmouth in 1904.

Dr. Stewart had a wide range of interests and in addition to his medical specialties was active in such diverse fields as the American Forestry Association, the National Audubon Society, the Mt. Washington Observatory, the American Museum of Natural History, Izaac Walton League, and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Medical Association, American Physiological Society, American Society of Zoologists, New Hampshire Academy of Science, New Hampshire Medical Society, and New Hampshire Surgical Club.

Professor Stewart was married in 1898 to Zoe Elizabeth Smiley, who survives him. Also surviving are a son, Dr. Colin C. Stewart Jr. '23, Assistant Professor in the Dartmouth Medical School, and a daughter, Dorothy Robson Stewart, former teacher of biology at Skidmore College. A memorial service was held at Dr. Stewart's home on January 24, followed by burial in the Dartmouth Cemetery.