Memorial Statement for Professor Robert Miller Lewis, D.V.M., Ph.D. (1937-2011) who spent the early years of his long and productive career in the Boston area, specializing in laboratory research in comparative medicine and spontaneous autoimmune diseases of domestic animals. In 1975, Dr. Lewis relocated to Ithaca to become chairman of the Pathology Department at Cornell. In this capacity, he taught veterinary students surgical pathology and necropsy and also formalized a well-respected residency training and graduate studies program in veterinary pathology at the College.