Ix RICHARD ALEXANDER FULLERTON .PENROSE, M.D., LL.D. 



keen sense of humor, poetic fancy and eloquence were inimitable. 

 But certain rules of the art might be learned by a study of Penrose's 

 lectures. They were as carefully prepared as an actor studies his 

 part. Emphasis, inflection, gesture and expression received scrupu- 

 lously careful attention. A judicious admixture of the gay with 

 the grave relieved the tedium of an hour's address. Each important 

 point was brought out in bold relief, sometimes by a certain circum- 

 locution in its introduction, often by an amusing anecdote, again 

 by unexpected antitheses or apparent paradoxes and occasionally 

 by moving his audience at one moment to roars of laughter and at 

 the next to a hushed and solemn silence. 



I cannot confine myself, Mr. President, to a cold analysis of Dr. 

 Penrose's qualities as a medical teacher. Many of his fellow mem- 

 bers in this venerable society were his personal friends and I am 

 proud to be numbered among them. They must expect to hear, as I 

 feel it my duty to pay, an inadequate tribute to the man himself. 

 His oldest brother was described as the " kind and amiable Pen- 

 rose." The description is equally applicable to the younger brother. 

 He fairly radiated kindliness. A harsh, unkind or ungenerous 

 thought was absolutely foreign to his nature. He was affable, cour- 

 teous, cordial to all degrees of men ; but a consciousness of dis- 

 tinction in birth, connections and position gave him an innate dignity 

 which forbade undue familiarity or lack of respect. 



He had some odd and whimsical views on men and things, 

 giving his conversation a fascinating piquancy. In one of his 

 amiable foibles, he was like that most lovable character in fiction, 

 Colonel Newcome. His friends were perfection itself. He could 

 see no fault in them. His enthusiastic partisanship for people 

 he liked reminds one of Essex endeavoring to secure the attorney 

 generalship for his friend Bacon and saying to Sir Robert Cecil, 

 " I will spend all my power, might, authority and amity, and with 

 tooth and nail procure the same for him against whomsoever." 



An incident in our association illustrates what I mean. He had 

 determined to do all in his power to make me his successor. As 

 the first step in that direction he told me to prepare a lecture as 

 carefully as I could and to commit it to memory. When it was 

 ready I was given a letter dated two days later, ostensibly received 



