116 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
He was elected first President of the Academy and served in 
that capacity from the date of its organization until his death 
in 1867. He was also a member of many important committees 
appointed on behalf of the Government, notably those on 
weights, measures and coinage, and on the collection of excise 
duties on distilled spirits. 
(From JosEpH HENRY, in Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of 
Sciences, vol. 1, 1877, pp. 181-212d. See also B. A Gou p, “ Address in com- 
memoration of Alexander Dallas Bache,’ Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., vol. 17, 
1869, pp. 1-56.) 
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS PORTER BARNARD 
Born, May 5, 1809; died, April 27, 1889 
President Barnard, brother of General John G. Barnard, was 
born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, May 5, 1809. He began the 
study of Latin at an early age, but later turned his attention from 
the classics to mathematics and allied branches of science. After 
his graduation at Yale in 1828, he became a teacher in the 
Hartford Grammar School and afterwards a tutor at Yale. 
In 1831 he was engaged as a teacher in the Deaf and Dumb 
Asylum at Hartford, Connecticut, and subsequently taught at 
the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and 
Dumb. 
In 1837 he was connected with the University of Alabama in 
the capacity of Professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathe- 
matics for eleven years, and afterwards as Professor of Chemistry 
until 1854. During his connection with the University, Pro- 
fessor Barnard built an astronomical observatory for the insti- 
tution. During this time he served as a member of a com- 
mission to settle a dispute concerning the boundary between 
Alabama and Florida. From 1854 to 1861 he was Professor 
of Mathematics and Astronomy in the University of Mississippi, 
was its president from 1856 to 1858, and chancellor from the 
latter year until 1861. The outbreak of the Civil War caused 
him to leave the South, and he then became director of printing 
and lithography in connection with the map and chart depart- 
ment of the United States Coast Survey. 
