Hartshorne.] 1«^0 [Oct. 11, 



addressed to him in regard to it by them, he was as- 

 sured on behalf of the members of the Society, that all 

 continued to recognize him as "the most worthy repre- 

 sentative it could have, not only where it holds its 

 meetings, but in its correspondence with other learned 

 bodies like itself." 



After his retirement from active service in the Chair 

 of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University 

 of Pennsylvania, he was made Emeritus Professor. 

 He became also, soon afterwards, a member of the 

 Board of Trustees of the University. In that Board, 

 as Chairman of its Committee on the Medical Depart- 

 ment, he exercised for many years an influence upon 

 its affairs more important, perhaps, than that of any 

 other individual member. 



His distinctions were not confined to his own city. 

 The College of New Jersey bestowed upon him the de- 

 gree of LL.D. Besides being made honorary or cor- 

 responding, member of the New York Academy of 

 Medicine, and the Medical Societies of Massachusetts 

 and Rhode Island, the same honor was conferred upon 

 him by the Societe de Pharmacie of Paris, the Medico- 

 Chirtirgical Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Col- 

 lege of Physicians of Dublin ; the Silesian Society fo?^ 

 Native Ctdture of Breslau, L' Academia de Qidriti 

 of Rome, and the Societas CcEsarea Natures- Curio- 

 sorimi of Moscow, Russia. He attended, as a guest, 

 two meetings of the British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, in 1848 and 1861. In the 



