formed a part of the official history of the Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II published by the Historical Unit, U.S. Army Medical Department. In 1977, he was granted emeritus professor status. Dr. Hoff was a member of Phi Beta Kappa national scholastic honor society, Sigma Xi science honorary society, the American Physiological Society and the Medical Society of Virginia. He was a member of the Torch Club of Richmond, the Richmond Astronomical Society and St Mary's Episcopal Church, Goochland County, Virginia where he served as director of the Sunday School, senior warden and vestryman. He was also a member of The Baker Street Irregulars, a club of Sherlock Holmes devotees. He held amateur radio license WA4CBM. He spent many summer holidays tenting in Westmore, Vermont on Lake Willoughby. He was also a member of the British Astronomical Association from 1957-1957. Selected publications Alcoholism: The Hidden Addiction (New York: Seabury Press, 1974) A bibliographical sourcebook of compressed air diving and submarine medicine (Washington, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., 1948–1954) A bibliography of aviation medicine (Springfield, Ill., Baltimore, Md., C.C. Thomas, 1942) United States Army Medical Service. Preventive Medicine in World War II - a multi-volume series which he edited with his wife Phebe Margaret Hoff (Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army) including Volume II. Environmental Hygiene Volume III: Personal Health Measures and Immunization, Volume IV. Communicable Diseases Transmitted Chiefly through Respiratory and Alimentary Tracts. Volume VI: Communicable Diseases: Malaria Volume VII. Communicable Diseases: Arthropodborne Diseases Other than Milaria Volume IX. Special Fields. A New Holmesian Treasure Trove (The Problem of Biffley Vicarage), Novella, Baker Street Journal [V14,#3-4,09-12/1964] (with Phebe M. Hoff) References 1906 births 1985 deaths American physiologists Amateur radio people Alumni of the London Hospital Medical College Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford People from Thomas County, Kansas Yale University faculty United States Navy personnel of World War II Scientists from Kansas United States Navy officers