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my college class, my scientific correspondents, and all the business fraternity 
of this city in its former palmy days. 
In 1839 I married at Marion, a Mrs. Mary Ann Hancock, of New Bern, 
North Carolina, who died at Rome, Georgia, in 1879, and I have no surviving 
children. A. W. CHAPMAN, LL.D. 
Apalachicola, March 13, 1898. 
While engaged if the practice of his profession, Dr. Chapman 
was closely identified with the public interest of his fellow-citizens. He 
filled the place of mayor and collector of customs from 1866 to 1870. 
Outside of these duties his spare time was given to his botanical pur- 
suits, involving a voluminous correspondence with his scientific con- 
temporaries. In acknowledgment of the merit of his labors he received 
honorary degrees from scientific associations in this country. In 1854 
he was made a member of the New Orleans Academy of Science; in 
1861 of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science; in 1866 of the 
Buffalo Society of Natural History and associate fellow of the Ameri- 
can Academy of Arts and Sciences; and in 1895, honorary member of 
the Botanical Society of America. 
Dr. Chapman was in every respect a perfectly normally constituted 
man, of fine physique, and dignified appearance, robust in health, vig- 
orous, and of untiring activity, which he retained <lmost unimpaired 
to the end of his years. He was remarkably free from interruptions 
by the ills man is generally heir too. The following incidents might 
serve as an illustration of the great physical and mental energy by 
which he was animated after he had already passed, by several years, 
the eighth decade of his life, and which will ever be cherished in 
the memory of the writer. When the deceased presented to me speci- 
mens of the beautiful and rare orchid, Calopogon multifiorus, he dictated 
a note to be made on the label, “ Collected by A. W. Chapman, walking 
thirteen miles for this plant, in his eighty-third year.” In the fall of 
1895 he accompanied the writer on a tedious trip made ina small skiff 
many miles up the Apalachicola river in search of an obscure ash which 
he observed thirty years before, but had not encountered afterwards. 
This he at once pointed out again. In March 1898 he joined Pro- 
fessor Sargent and the writer on a trip in a tow boat to the same 
localities. During the whole day, spent in the almost inaccessible 
palmetto and cypress Swamps, our aged companion showed the alacrity 
of the botanical collector in the best years of life. : 
At that time he looked hopefully forward to a busy season in the 
