Chandler Robbins Gilman, an American physician, born at Marietta, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1802, died at Middletown, Conn., Sept. 26, 1865. During his childhood his father removed to Philadelphia. He took the degree of M. D. in 1824 at the university of Pennsylvania, and soon afterward removed to New York, where the whole of his active professional life was spent. In 1840 he was appointed professor of obstetrics and the diseases of women and children in the college of physicians and surgeons, to which was added in 1851 the subject of medical jurisprudence. In this chair Prof. Gil-man continued until his death, although for the last year or two he was incapacitated by failing health. His principal publications were: a translation, prepared with the assistance of Dr. Theodore Tellkampf, of Bischoff's monograph On the Periodical Discharge of the Ovum (New York, 1847); On the Relations of the Medical to the Legal Profession (1856); and an edition of Beck's Medical Jurisprudence" (Philadelphia, 1860).