New-York tribune., 1884-12-19
COPIES OF ATrIDAv1Ts.

ssa Of fEe- York ciy and County Of Eer Ior G ss cav.
fsdySe BaIsT S No S'9 y " I4,t Thtyesath ST. tLe
Or of New YOrk, born IN the = lie VI 'iaIe ~
tSe EroS lie Medicine. Paris. France Ana d'lonent
fuTsaer says that by authority oi N"I P"nl' "o H"'
beSa practising '"e1''i'' '''''' ' FoupYcE BuErR.
svorr ~ before ne this ith day of October 1-~0.
G. NJ. SMITH, Commissioner OF Deeds y l. =
hmdayit Of F. Barker practising medicine Filed
& S,1. o. Neo York cyoaa contyot Neg, York; ss n,r
4 Patrick Keenan, Clerk OF the sad CITY ana So'nof
an oerk Of the supreme Ccurt OF SAD sa'e lol Sau
~, H. r,enai phy sicians ada, 1t lle in my Office
and that the same IS correct transcript 'her" AN"
'ps Wines, whcreof have hcrcunto subscribed my
nae AND ofiN Ncd my official SEAL this fourteenth Gay oi
- 1-sl IATElCk ksLNAA, ClclA.
ett which took place between tho Investigating Com.
nnee aud the secretary Oh tie SeAoo' oI -'e"'4' d"
Tansl: ,,.......,nr.n,s
Request the keeper of the archives I" pT,e % 10 Go
=, WT Forlycc Barker or b. Foriycc BaTkcr or lcJa-
%asn n Foriycc barker secretary OF the Faculty;
PAaIs. June 1G 1883
Not In the Archives. = O",' 'l'i," 'l' In,
TIE tables of theses from 1910 olSl5, inclusive, nave
bees looked through; al the parerSi eohpe'I& PIE & I m f
the six years have been eXainc ana tic l.' a'nV @
6a.~',"in {. CHENALLlkh
IseAIJ FACULTY OF MrpIgyE OF pAEIs'
u -esr,, from the prescribed Investigations of the
ar~siycs and at the library OF the Faculty ih"t no uato
erNs OF the medical studies thal nave n'em may m ~
S.ys. a., Mr. Harker or Forlycc or Benjamin IRON l~4o
20 $50 II possible that foreigner should nav
Srs,lvei diploma doctor of medicine unless hls name
be Inscribed IN the archives
TIE COMMITTEES FINDINGS
The main part OF the report of the Committee on
E,hies. which concerns itself with the testimony III
RECITATION of the charges against tho president OF
The Academy of Medicine. Is given below
- I'm fl eli all
pas.onnte statement IN which the i0!IO"lhB points are
H., ~ at the suggestion OF friends in Paris. who
were members of the Faculty. he unicrWeht
ersmnations In a number Of departments WIN llc IN
Seu,iou of taking degree from the school oi Nccn"
rsat nj studio, and examinations were intcraptcd hy
Ais hcing called home ON account oi me ""'i"s H9'
Tsst vhie awaiting steamer in which TO rcnrn lie
tectiycd letter from Professor orni, i1nn M ] -. tl1
fscrlty informing him that diploma W"ild ne tr"D'i
6im at some daic IN the near future ANA tai ne rPcd
rr,1r,l home and rcnqshing his claim To the diploma
"a hg could not comply with the necessary 'oiht"h>.
a@s, i,,cen years after In lSGl. not having ia the
uesntime heard anything further about the
diploma. he was dining IN Lm49 9,,,Ntn Ni,m - -;
PuIc Instruction, when rrousseau publicly referred -
his fDr Barkes being graduate o IaIls ihch ne nm
mcdlacly discaimed The titlc ana related tHe ia1,s
shoye stated. upon which IrOusscau affirmed lhdt ne
knew thai diploma had been made out for Df Barker
q he himself had taken special interest IN H. ana I''t
Shr diloua must be here In the department of
the Minister OF Pubc Instruction, and Appealed 10 mat
Ofcer who then present to have IL searchc" iol.
That IA few days later returning from a tempo, p}I
vary alscucc from Paris, he found At his hotel a ron
sdireSse 10 M TrOusseau. and marked rs coming from
the Nlnstcr OF Public instruction. ana when contained
his diploma from school OF Medicine in Paris, dated
In lSi5. ...,,.o, ,,. orri..,
IN New.York he showed this diploma 10 number oi ms
friend, gathered at his house 10 welcome him TWO Ol
whom are still living ana remember The occurrence.
That some years later u discovered thdt lh- uo
ma with ali his diplomas received prior To l-o2, was
Loaf presumably the occasion OF his removal from
Union place To hi- house in MadisOn-aVe.
This statement from a man OF the high character
o. DIR Barker coupled with the fact that he ddnO caim
thai he had Paris degree un his return from Paris IN
1851 and when he had already been twenty years In
practce during sixteen Of which he had been professor
and when he had been the recipient ol many professional
honors among them the ycepresldcucy OF the Academy
And tLc sdency Of the Medical society OF the state Of
York and when Paris degree could add nothing TO
6s reputalion might well be deemed slinclet answer
a. mere negative evidence depending for s validity upon
Inc assumption that record cannot DC Incomplete .
Hut I'm addition 10 this there is the evidence o Two we'll
tuoWn gentlemen who remember and explain the Pars
diploma and who recall different Incidents IN connection
with the occasion which place the accuracy OF thelr re
collection beyond possibility OF doubt lIhc letters are
eummaril red above Both these letters show tha the
writers not only remember the diploma but that ther
was arrested by the difference between s dat
and the time It's reception Dr DOrsmus Is well Vercd
3n the French guage IN which the diploma was written
the negative evidence OF the records whose general ac
curacy and completeness they have no means Of cstmat
against the positive testimony OF these credible wit
pesses.
IL the unanimous decision OF the committee that the
witnesses must be believed against tle negative inf
ence from the records and that the charge and spcc
cations not sustained.