Medical Work Honored

A June testimonial dinner held in Ann Arbor, Mich., honored world-famous embryologist Bradley M. Patten ',11 staff member of the University of Michigan Medical Center, for his outstanding service and devotion to medicine. He has achieved great international eminence for his research studies in embryology and has lectured on the subject at major universities all over the world.

After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard, Dr. Patten served on the staff of the Western Reserve University School of Medicine until 1934 when he was made assistant director for medical sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1949-50 he was appointed one of the national Sigma Xi scientific honorary society lecturers and gave a series of talks in more than twenty colleges and universities on the various phases of embryonic heart action and the beginnings of embryonic circulation. He has written numerous books on embryology and his more recent publications have included papers on the cardiovascular and the central nervous systems.

Dr. Patten's father, the late William Patten, was Professor of Zoology at Dartmouth from 1893 to 1931 and directed the course in evolution for the last eleven years of that period.