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his reply to Dr. Horatio C. Wood's paper on medical education, pub- 

 lished at the beginning of the movement which has been productive 

 of such good results in the elevation of the medical profession, he 

 quotes approvingly Huxley's statement concerning the men who had 

 gone up for examination in the University of London, that he had 

 been struck with "the singular unreality of their knowledge of phys- 

 iology." He deprecates Dr. Wood's laudation of the courses of 

 instruction in Europe as contrasted with our own: "To establish in 

 this country a University of the German kind, we would first require 

 to have their gymnasia, then their primary schools, then more taxation 

 to support them, a national priesthood to regulate the ideas of the 

 faculty, and finally a standing army to keep the dissatisfied quiet. 

 A medical education is a good thing, but the privilege of saying what 

 we please, doing what we like, and spending our money as suits us 

 best, is better. If any American physician will give his lifetime to 

 the study of a specialty, and will lecture on that, and that alone, I 

 have no doubt he can make, like the German professor, a reputation 

 and a living — if he chooses to live like one." 



Years after, in considering the proposed act of the Legislature regu- 

 lating the practice of medicine and surgery, he gives his reasons for 

 believing that such an attempt would be rather to lower than to 

 elevate the standard of medical education in the Commonwealth. 

 Such opinions were expressed with a vigor and point which, while 

 they might fail to convince, certainly relieved his printed arguments 

 from dulness. 



Possessed of a wonderfully retentive memory he was always able to 

 illustrate his point of view and enforce his arguments by apt references 

 and quotations characterized by incisiveness and force. While ardently 

 devoted to scientific investigation, he was attentive to his many social 

 obligations; but if either had to be held in abeyance, his work had 

 always the precedence, a fact amply demonstrated by the varied 

 and extensive results of his industry, as recorded in the accompanying 

 bibliography. The value of his contributions to science was 

 recognized on his retirement by the Carnegie Foundation for the 

 Advancement of Teaching. 



It is fitting that Dr. Chapman should be remembered as a devoted 

 student of science who contributed liberally to the resources of the 

 Academy and was always active in advancing its interests at home 

 and abroad. He will dwell in the regard of his fellow members as a 

 genial associate, an intellectual stimulus, and a loyal friend. 



