Excerpt from Hospital Bulletin, 1914, Vol. 10 It has happened to me to be requested on two occasions in one year, the first in last January, the other now in December, as the year is drawing to its close, to act as one of the spokesmen of this Faculty in welcoming to our gallery the portraits of two most highly distinguished members of our profession and of this Faculty. The first of these portraits to which I refer is that of Dr. John Buckler, who died nearly 48 years ago. having devoted his long life almost up to its very end to active professional work, and to constant professional study - work and study in that department of our calling which is termed and regarded as medical in the stricter sense. Dr. Buckler was especially a physician, a wise, learned and skillful one. His reputation as such has been handed down to two generations who have succeeded him; hut I doubt whether there is a single member of our profession now living in this community who has had personal knowledge of Dr. Buckler or the advantage of learning from him in professional consultation except myself. For this reason, probably, I was asked to speak of Dr. Buckler on the occasion referred to, being, as it were, a connecting link between the profession of an elder day and that of the present time. The other portrait which I have been requested to take part in bringing before you tonight - and I hold it a privilege to do so - is that of Prof. Louis McLane Tiffany, who is held in the highest honor by every member of our calling in this community and by many throughout the length and breadth of our country and beyond it. As Dr. Buckler was known especially as a physician, so Dr. Tiffany has for many years been held in the highest repute as a surgeon from his eminent attainments in surgery on its pathological, its diagnostic and its operative sides. As I have suggested a reason for which I may have been requested to present the portrait of Dr. Buckler, so I suppose I may have been invited to be one of those who bring before you this portrait of Dr. Tiffany for a somewhat kindred reason. It is this - that I am the sole survivor, the last lingerer of that body which constituted the Faculty of the School of Medicine in the University of Maryland in 1868, the year in which Dr. Tiffany was graduated. My colleagues in that Faculty were Nathan R. Smith, Aikin, Miltenherger, McSherry, Johnston, Donaldson and Howard. And not only were they my colleagues, but my friends also. Chief among us, our leader and head, was Nathan Ryno Smith, and I may say that my friendship with him was especially warm and close, for he was for many years the friend of my father, who inscribed to him a volume of lectures on Medical Education, which he published, in these words: "To Nathan Ryno Smith, in testimony of the long and uninterrupted affection inspired by his virtues and worth." And so this special friendship came to me by inheritance, and brought me in constant attendance upon him in his old age, and by his own request for many months up to the end of his life, when he had passed his eightieth year. During the period of undergraduate study it was formerly the custom for students to read medicine in the office of a preceptor, and to witness and give assistance in minor surgery if the preceptor was a surgeon, a custom which, I believe, has passed away. In accordance with this custom Dr. Tiffany was in his undergraduate period an office pupil of Professor Smith, who for many years held the Chair of Surgery at the University of Maryland, which was destined, ere many further years had elapsed, to be occupied by Dr. Tiffany himself. As Professor Smith was always in the forefront of the surgery of his day, so Professor Tiffany with an equally firm hand held the post which has been so wonderfully advanced in the last quarter of a century. His election to the Chair of Surgery met the universal approval of the profession here, who recognized .
