MRS. FRANK CHAPMAN, 

 FOUNDER OF CLUBS, 84 



Mrs. Fannie M. Bates Chapman, 

 wife of Dr. Frank M. Chapman, 

 former curator of birds at the 

 American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, died yesterday in a hospital at 

 Asheville, N. C., after a long ill- 

 ness, according to word received 

 here. Her age was 84. 



Sharing her husband's interest 

 in birds he headed the museum's 

 ornithology department from 1908 

 until his retirement several years 

 ago Mrs. Chapman accompanied 

 him many times on explorations in 

 South America. It was said she 

 was a competent bird-skinner. She 

 was a member of the Women's Ex- 

 plorers Club. 



Because of her knowledge of 

 Latin America Mrs. Chapman was 

 named during the first World War 

 to head the women's division of the 

 American Red Cross in South 

 America and toured the continent 

 on behalf of the organization. 



She was born in Scarsdale, N. Y., 

 the daughter of Alfred S. Bates 

 and Lucy Whitney Bates, in the 

 house occupied by Bates families 

 since late in the seventeenth cen- 

 tury. 



Mrs. Chapman was the founder 

 and first president of the Garden 

 Club of the Canal Zone, the Gar- 

 den Club of Onteora, N. Y., and 

 the Garden Club of Englewood. Be- 

 fore the first World War she was 

 president of the Women's Club of 

 Englewood and a leader in the 

 movement that formed the Fed- 

 erated Women's Clubs of New Jer- 

 sey and in the "Save the Pali- 

 sades" movement conducted by the 

 Federated Woman's Clubs. Mrs. 

 Chapman was active also in prison 

 reform in New Jersey and New 

 York. 



Besides Dr. Chapman, to whom 

 she was married in 1898, she leaves 

 a son, Capt. Frank M. Chapman 

 Jr. of the Marines, singer and hus- 

 band of Gladys Swarthout, Metro- 

 politan Opera singer, and two sons 

 and two daughters by a former 

 marriage to Aymar Embury, law- 

 yer, now dead, Aymar Embury 2d, 

 New York architect; Alfred Bates 

 Embury, Mrs. Lucy Embury Hub- 

 bell and Mrs. Suaar Embury Cleg- 

 horn. 



