THE BARBOUR-PAGE LECTURE FOUNDATION.
The University of Virginia is indebted for the establishment of
the Barbour-Page Foundation to the wisdom and generosity of Mrs.
Thomas Nelson Page, of Washington, D. C. In 1907, Mrs. Page
donated to the University the sum of $22,000, the annual income of
which is to be used in securing each session the delivery before the
university of a series of not less than three lectures by some distinguished
man of letters or of science. The conditions of the foundation
require that the Barbour-Page lectures for each session be
not less than three in number; that they be delivered by a specialist
in some branch of literature, science, or art; that the lecturer present
in the series of lectures some fresh aspect or aspects of the
department of thought in which he is a specialist; and that the entire
series delivered each session, taken together, shall possess such
unity that they may be published by the Foundation in book-form.
Lecturer on the Barbour-Page Foundation.
1911. William Henry Welch, M. D., LL. D., Baxley Professor
of Pathology in the Johns Hopkins University.
Subject: The Development of Medicine as a Science. Three
Lectures.
