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tlic latter in tlio years 19U8 and 1909. Since 181)7, he has been 

 President of the New York Linnaean Societ}^ and from 1910 

 to 1918 was Vice-President of the Explorers' Club. He holds 

 Honorary Membership in the N(nv Yoi'k Zoolojiical Society 

 and the Sociedad ornitolo^ica del Plata, and Foreign Mem- 

 bership in the Biitish Ornithological Union. In 1912, he was 

 awarded the first Linnaean medal, In^ the Linnaean Society of 

 New York, and in 1918 the National Academy of Sciences 

 bestowed on him the first Elliot medal, in recognition of his 

 work on Colombian birds. In 1913, the Honorary Dee;ree of 

 Doctor of Science was conferred on him by Brown Univeisity . 



During; the war, Dr. Chapman acted for a year (1917 

 1918) as Director of the Bureau of PubHcations of the Ameri- 

 can Red Cross, and for another year (1918-1919) served as 

 Amei'ican R(h1 Cross Commissioner to Latin America — an 

 office for which he was peculiarly fitted by his extensive South 

 American travels and the affiliations which he had formed in 

 the South American countiies. 



Those of us who know Dr. Chapman only casually, appre- 

 ciate his geniality. Those who have worked with him admire 

 his splendid executive ability, his professional enthusiasm 

 and his apparently unlimited capacity for accomplishment. 

 Those who know him onh' by reputation value his contribu- 

 tion to ornithological research and his achievement in broadly 

 popularizing natural history — especially ornitholo<iy — with- 

 out sacrificing; his serious investigations or losing the scientific 

 spirit. Those Museum folks who know Dr. Chapman both 

 professional!}^ and personally can g;ive all these reasons and a 

 numbei" of othei-s for the high esteem in which thev hold him. 



