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leisure of his maturer years in making a translation of Homer's "Iliad** in blank verse, which was published posthumously in 1S48. yir. Munford died at Richmond, Virginia, June 21, 1825.

Girardin, Louis Hue, was appointed pro- fessor of modern languages in William and Mary College, 1803; for several years he conducted a select school for girls in Rich- mond. He compiled volume iv. of Burk's "History of Virginia." He produced a magazine, "Amoenitates Graphicae," with six fine. hand-colored plates by Frederick Besler. Only the one number was ever printed.

Chapman, Nathaniel, was born in Sum- mer Hill, Fairfax county, May 28, 1780. He was educated at the academy at Alexandria, and graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1800; he then studied under Abernethy in London for one year, and took a two years* course at the University of Edinburgh, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He returned to the United States in 1804, established himself in practice in Philadel- phia, and rose to the front rank of the med- ical profession. He was assistant professor cf midwifery, 1810-13; professor of materia medica, 1813-16; and held the chair of the theory and practice of medicine, 1816-50, in the University of Pennsylvania. In 1817 he founded the Philadelphia Medical Insti- tute, and during twenty years delivered a summer course of lectures ; he was also lec- turer on clinics at the hospital of the Phila- delphia almshouse. He was president of the American Philosophical Society, of the American Medical Association. In 1820 he founded and for many years edited the

Physical Sciences." He published: "Select Speeches, Forensic and Parliamentary" (1808) ; "Elements of Therapeutics and Materia Medica" (1828); '^Lectures on Eruptive Fevers, Hemorrhages and Drop- sies, and on Gout and Rheumatism," and "Lectures on the Thoracic Viscera." He died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July i, 1853.
 * Thiladelphia Journal of the Medical and

Warrington, Lewis, was born at Wil- liamsburg, Virginia, November 3, 1782. He received a classical education and was graduated from William and Mary College hi 1798. He entered the navy as midship- man in 1800, and served under Preble in the war with Tripoli ; became a lieutenant in February, 1807, and was on the "Chesa- peake/* in her encounter with the '^Leopard.'* June 20. In 1812 he sailed in the "Congress* with Commander Rodgers' squadron in pur- suit of the British West India fleet. In 1813 he was made master, and placed in command of the ''Peacoek** with which he took nine- teen vessels, including the "Epenner,^* cap- tured off Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 29, 1814, after a close contest of forty-two min- utes: for this congress voted him a gold medal. Having made several prizes in the Bay of Biscay, he returned to Xew York in the fall, was commissioned captain, and sail- ed in Decatur's fleet. On June 30. 1815, he took the "XatitilHs*^ and three more East India vessels in the straits of Sunda, a region until then avoided by American cruisers ; these prizes had to be given up as peace had been declared before they were captured. He was in the Mediterranean, 1816-19; in command of the Norfolk navy- yard, 1820-24 and 1832-39: of the West

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