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to pursuing his studies in the Eternal City when the resignation of 

 his professorship would leave him in complete control of his time. 



He was much gratified by the reception in June, 1908, of the degree 

 of Doctor of Science from his Alma Mater in recognition of the value 

 of his contributions to original research. 



Elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1 880 he served on 

 the Library Committee from January, 1891, to June, 1892. He was a 

 member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Physio- 

 logical Society, and the Franklin Institute; but he devoted much more 

 time to the Academy and the Zoological Society than to the other 

 institutions with which he was connected. 



His last visit to the Academy was made a week before his departure 

 for Bar Harbor. He was then in his usual exuberant spirits, with but 

 little appearance of impaired health. Shortly after his arrival at his 

 summer home he complained of severe pain, which was supposed to 

 be intercostal neuralgia, but which, in connection with some difficulty 

 in swallowing, was doubtless symptomatic of grave digestive disturb- 

 ance. He was, however, able to attend to his many social duties, 

 and to keep up his interest in the work of his laboratory until September 

 6th, when he was taken with a severe hemorrhage from the stomach, 

 probably the effect of a gastric ulcer. A copious repetition of the 

 flow of blood the following day resulted in his death. Mrs. Chapman 

 survives him, childless. 



The funeral exerciser were held at Bar Harbor in St. Saviour's 

 Church on the 10th of September. The body was brought to Phil- 

 adelphia and buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in the presence of a few 

 relatives and intimate friends who had assembled at his residence, 

 No. 2047 Walnut Street, a few blocks from where he was born. 



The qualities which endeared Dr. Chapman to his schoolmates 

 persisted throughout his life. He remained to the end a boy, with a 

 cultivated mind, an unquenchable desire for the acquisition of know- 

 ledge, an intense enjoyment of life, and an unvarying self-possession, 

 the result of success, appreciation, and inheritance. His sense of 

 humor, his mental acuteness, his generosity, his sympathy with all 

 human endeavor, his possession of what his friend Weir Mitchell 

 finely calls "a boundless charity of attention," secured for him the 

 affectionate regard of many with whom he could not be supposed to 

 have much community of interest. 



In most intellectual centres, and characterizing almost every genera- 

 tion, certain men become famous as the authors of well told stories, 



