104 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
National Academy were connected with one or the other of 
these societies, and that of the whole number of incorporators 
only four were not members of any of them. It would seem 
almost certain that the little group of men that guided the 
Academy movement had these lists before them when engaged 
in the selection of incorporators. Doubtless there were good 
reasons why the fifty original members, or some of them, were not 
notified of their inclusion in the list in advance of the passage of 
the Act of Incorporation, but it is significant that only two 
declined membership, or resigned in the months immediately 
following that event. 
The Academy has published sketches of the lives of nearly 
all the incorporators in the series known as the Biographical 
Memoirs, of which seven volumes have been issued. It has not 
seemed necessary or desirable to gather the same information 
again from original sources, but an attempt has been made to 
summarize, in the pages which follow, the principal events in 
the lives of the original members. The matter has been derived 
in the majority of cases from the Biographical Memoirs, and in 
each instance the authority is cited. 
The original list of incorporators as it appears in the Act of 
1863 is as follows: 
Louis Acassiz, Massachusetts. 
J. H. ALEXANDER, Maryland. 
5S. ALEXANDER, New Jersey. 
A. D. Bacueg, at large. 
F. A. P. BARNARD, at large. 
J. G. Barnarp, United States Army, 
Massachusetts. 
W. H. C. Barrett, United States 
Military Academy, Missouri. 
U. A. BoypEN, Massachusetts. 
ALeExis CASweELL, Rhode Island. 
WILLIAM CHAUVENET, Missouri. 
J. H. C. Corrin, United States Naval 
Academy, Maine. 
J. A. DAHLGREN, United States Navy, 
Pennsylvania. 
J. D. Dana, Connecticut. 
CuHaritres H. Davis, United States 
Navy, Massachusetts. 
GerorGE ENGELMANN, St. Louis, Mis- 
souri. 
J. F. Frazer, Pennsylvania. 
Wotcorr Gipss, New York. 
J. M. Gtuiss, United States Navy, 
Kentucky. 
A. A. GouLp, Massachusetts. 
B. A. Goutp, Massachusetts. 
Asa Gray, Massachusetts. 
ARNOLD Guyot, New Jersey. 
James Hatt, New York. 
JosepH Henry, at large. 
J. E. Hitearp, at large, Illinois. 
