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as an impertinent artificial device, which might for the time be 

 safely ignored. His attention having been once called by the Editor 

 of the Proceedings, to the absence of punctuation marks in his 

 manuscripts, he replied, "Well! I will write a lot of commas, colons 

 and semi-colons and you may scatter them about as you please." 2 

 Some revision of diction and careful proof-reading were always, in 

 fact, necessary in connection with Chapman's literary work, not from 

 mere carelessness, and still less, it is scarcely necessary to say, from 

 incapacity, but because of a controlling desire to be rid of what was in 

 hand as promptly as possible so as to be free to go on with some other 

 task which had, in the meantime, established itself as of dominant 

 interest. 



Dr. Chapman's first contribution to the Proceedings of the Academy 

 ,was a report of remarks made at the meeting of 1873 on a species of 

 Delphinus. At the meeting of November 25 of the same year he 

 acknowledges his indebtedness to the Directors of the Zoological 

 Garden for the opportunity of dissecting a specimen of the Musanga, 

 the results of which he communicates verbally. 



Then in the third annual report of the Zoological Society of Philadel- 

 phia, it is stated that he had made dissections valuable to the compara- 

 tive anatomist and pathologist and that as a result thereof papers on 

 certain muscles in Ateles geoffroyi and Mucacus rheus and on the blood- 

 vessels in the rete mirabile of Bradypus didactylus had been published 

 in the Proceedings of the Academy. Subsequently his work as 

 Prosector of the Society, to which position he had been elected in 1874, 

 supplied him with material for contributions to the Proceedings on 

 the omentum of the Dog-faced Monkey, on the anatomy of the Giraffe, 

 the Elephant, the Manatee, the Capybara, the Chimpanzee, the 

 Amphiuma, the Macacus, the Ourang Outang, the Kangaroo, the 

 Echidna, the Hyaena, the Cryptobranchus, the Gibbon, the Chiromys, 

 and the Armadillo. 



Some of these articles were original contributions to science while 

 others were corroborations or corrections of the results obtained by 

 earlier anatomists. They frequently give evidence of familiarity 

 with the classics as well as with modern bibliography. 



In a detailed report to the Zoological Society in 1876 he endorses 



2 Dr. Chapman probably never heard of Lord Timothy Dexter, who, at the 

 conclusion of his unpunctuated A Pickle for the Knowing Ones or Plain Truths 

 in a Homespun Dress, supplies half a page of assorted marks with the note: 

 ". . . . the Nowing ones complane of my book the fust edition had no stops 

 I put in A nuf here and they may peper and salt it as they plese." 



