OBITUARIES

LESLIE A. I. MAXWELL (1890-19641

Dr. Leslie A. I. Maxwell, an Affiliate Fellow of the Academy since 1954, died April 25, 1964.

Dr. Maxwell received his premedical education at the University of Melbourne in 1916 and his medical degree from the University of Melbourne and Royal Mel- bourne Hospital in 1920. He also served his residency at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He had been on the staff of the Royal Melbourne Hospital since 1926. He was Lecturer in Physiology from 1920 to 1946 and Lecturer in Clinical Biochemis- try from 1925 to 1952 at Melbourne Uni- versity. He was Lecturer in Therapeutics at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1946 to 1949.

Dr. Maxwell was a pioneer in allergic studies in Australia. As early as 1920 he was a recognized authority in this field, and he wrote numerous papers, as well as the book, Clinical Biochemistry. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Society of Allergists and a former president, a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, and a former member of the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum.

Dr. Maxwell is survived by his son, Dr. Murray Maxwell of Melbourne.

ERNEST B. SALEN (1888-1968)

Professor Ernest B. Sal&, an Honor- ary Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, died in Stockholm, Sweden, Jan- uary 5, 1968.

He received his B. S. degree at Karo- linska Institute of Stockholm in 1911 and his medical degree from the same univer- sity in 1917. After residency training in internal medicine at the University Hos- pital of Stockholm, he became an associ- ate professor there. In 1929 he was appointed head of the Department of Internal Medicine at Sabbatsberg Hospi- tal.

Dr. Salen was a pioneer in the study of

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allergy in Sweden. He was head of the allergy clinic of t,he Sahhatsberg Ilos- pita1 from 1939 to 1946, where hc trained many colleagues and stimulated their interest in clinical allergy as well as in research work in this field. In 1946, he became head of the allergy clinic of Sodersjukhuset. He has published many papers on internal medicine and allergy. Most well known and important was his work, in collaboration with Dr. C. Juhlin-Da,nnfelt, on skin tests and circulating reagins in subclinical and clinical allergy, published in 1935.

In 1946, he founded the Swedish Society for Allergology and, in 1947, the Northern Society for Allergological Research; he was first president of both societies. In collaboration with Dr. Egon Bruun and Dr. C. Juhlin-Dannfelt, he started, in 1948, the Acta Allergologica and was its first editor. He was also one of the initiators of the first European Congress of Allergology held in Paris in 1950.

Professor Sal& is survived by wife Anna, three sons, one daughter, four sons from a previous marriage, and his brother, Sven Sal&.

WALTER KIKUTH (1896-1968)

Dr. Walter Kikuth, an Affiliate Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy since 1958, died July 5, 1968, in Diisseldorf, Ger- many. He was graduated from the University of Kiinigsberg in 1920 and obtained his medi- cal degree from the University of Hamburg in 1924. He served his internship at the Uni- versity of Hamburg, Hospital Eppendorf, and his residency at the Hamburger Tropen- institute from 1924 to 1928. He was medical director of the Institute of Chemotherapy of I. G. Farbenindustrie in Wuppertal-Elber- feld from 1929 to 1945, and since 1946 he was Professor of Hygiene and Microbiology at the Medizinische Akademie in Diisseldorf.

Dr. Kikuth was a prominent German scientist both in teaching and in re- search; in the general fields of microbiology, chemotherapy, and tropical medi- cine; and in allergy as it related to these fields. He wrote over 250 papers on these subjects. He was one of the founders and first president of the German Society of Allergic Investigation. He was also a member of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine in London; a founding member and first president of the Deutsche Tropenmedizinische Gesellschaft ; and one of the founders of the Institute for Lufthygiene and Silicosis. Dr. Kikuth was the recipient of the Goldene Paul Ehrlich Medaille and the Schaudinn-Hoffman Medaille.

Surviving Dr. Kikuth is one daughter, Frau Dotraut Liuhr of Diisseldorf.