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Portrait of Frank Naaer, standing in military uniform. Inscribed, "To

Signed portrait of Malcolm Morris, MD (1849-1924). Inscribed "To Dr. Howard Fox, from Malcolm Morris, London, 1913." Morris founded the British Association of Dermatologists in 1920.

Photograph of Colin Munro MacLeod, MD (1909-1972), sitting in a laboratory, from p. 51 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. MacLeod was professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology of the New York University College of Medicine from 1941 to 1956. In 1944, Dr. MacLeod and his colleagues Dr. Avery and Dr. McCarthy showed that DNA is the sole material in the chromosomes which carries genetic information.

Photograph of Henry MacCormac, MD (1879-1950), seated on a bench beneath a tree. The inscription reads, “Near Munich, Sept. 1935. To Dr. Howard Fox, with kindest regards from Henry MacCormac.” Dr. MacCormac was an Irish dermatologist who worked and taught at Middlesex Hospital in London. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I.

Photograph of Meyer J. Kutisker, MD, receiving a Presidential Citation from James M. Hester, President of NYU. Dr. Kutisker received his MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1917. He taught as Professor of Clinical Surgery at the New York University College of Medicine.

Signed portrait of Ignatz Leo Nascher, MD (1863-1944). Dr. Nascher received his MD from University Medical College in 1885. He coined the term “geriatrics.”

Portrait of Norton Nelson, MD (1910-1990). Dr. Nelson joined the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine in 1947. From 1954 to 1979, he served as the first director of the Institute of Environmental Medicine at New York University.

Portrait of Harry Most, MD (1907-1994). Dr. Most received his MD from University & Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1931. He taught at New York University School of Medicine from 1941 to 1993, eventually serving as the Herman M. Biggs Professor of Preventive Medicine and the chair main of the Department of Preventive Medicine from 1953 to 1973. Dr. Most received the NYU Medical Alumni Achievement Award in 1974. He was an original contributor to the study of tropical diseases, trichinosis, malaria, amebiasis, schistomiasis, leishmaniasis, and filariasis.

Photograph of W. Ross McCarthy, at work in lab coat, Faculty. Photo taken from the 1954 Violet, page 49.

Portrait of Henry Mitchell MacCracken, DD, LLD (1840-1918). MacCracken was the sixth chancellor of New York University from 1891 to 1910. Caption printed below photograph reads: “Member, 1885-, President and Trustee, 1900-”