FREDEUICK AUGUSTUS PORTER BARNARD. 4-13 



in the office of the U. S. Coast Survey. In 1864, Mr. McCulloch, Pro- 

 fessor of Physics in Columbia College, N. Y., resigned, and linked his 

 fortunes with the Southern Confederacy. Professor Barnard applied 

 fur the vacant office ; but the Trustees made him President. 



President Barnard for many years had been interested in the im- 

 provement of education of every grade, and had claimed for science 

 its proper place in the curriculum. At his accession to the presi- 

 dency, the managers of Columbia College were induced by him to 

 enlarge the sphere of collegiate education by the establishment of the 

 School of Mines with an independent faculty. The friendly rivalry 

 between this department and the classical has invigorated both, and 

 brought greater numbers and more funds to the College. The cen- 

 tennial celebration of the revival and confirmation by the Legislature 

 of the State of New York of the Royal Charter granted in 1754, 

 which occurred on April 13, 1887, took place under circumstances 

 of great present prosperity, and of rich promises for the future. 



The labors of Dr. Barnard were never limited by his professional 

 duties. When the American Astronomical Expedition was organized 

 by the Superintendent of the U. S. Coast Survey, under the authority 

 of Congress, for the purpose of observing the solar eclipse of July 17, 

 1860, Professor Stephen Alexander was chief, and President Barnard 

 one of a large corps of able assistants. Mr. Alexander made the 

 report on the observations taken on Cape Chadleigh in Labrador, and 

 Mr. Barnard furnished an account of them for the American Journal 

 of Science. In 1867 Dr. Barnard was appointed one of the U. S. 

 Commissioners to the Universal Exposition in Paris, and his report 

 was printed by Congress. He was also Assistant Commissioner 

 General to the Exposition of 1878. He received the Cross of Officer 

 of Legion of Honor from the French Ministry, and a gold medal for 

 his work as editor in chief of Johnson's Cycloptedia. 



Dr. Barnard joined the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science at the seventh meeting, held at New York in 1846. He 

 was elected President of the fifteenth meptiug, which was expected to 

 convene at Na!5hville, Tenn., on April 15, 1861. But that meeting 

 was prevented by the impending civil war. In 1866 Dr. Barnard 

 thought that the time had come for renewing the meetings, and, in 

 co-operation with Joseph Levering, the Permanent Secretary, he 

 arranged for a meeting in Buffalo, beginning on August 15, over 

 which he presided. Absence in Europe prevented him from giving 

 his valedictory address as retiring President at the next meeting, in 

 Burlington, Vt., but it was delivered at the meeting in Chicago ih 



