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The value of Dr. Barnard's many services to science and education 

 were recognized by academies and seats of learning. He was elected 

 an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

 in 1860. He was included among those named in the act of incor- 

 poration of the National Academy of Science by Congress, in 18G3, 

 was chairman of an important committee on weights, measures, and 

 coinage, and Foreign Secretary for a time. In 1871 he was chosen a 

 member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. He was also 

 a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Liege. He received 

 the degree of LL. D. from Jefferson College in 1855, and from Yale 

 in 1859 ; and the degree of S. T. D. from the University of Missis- 

 sippi in 18G1. The Regents of the University of New York made 

 him a Doctor of Letters in 1872. 



It is understood that Dr. Barnard, devoted to the end to the cause 

 of education, and faithful to the College which had adopted and hon- 

 ored him, and to which he had given twenty years of his ripened 

 thought, has left his whole property (about 80,000 dollars) to Colum- 

 bia College, to be available after the death of Mrs. Barnard. 



JOHN CALL DALTON. 



John Call Dalton was born in Chelmsford, Mass., on February 

 2, 1825. He was the sou of John Call Dalton,a practitioner of medi- 

 cine of unusual attainments and great success in his profession. 



The subject of this notice was a graduate of Harvard College, of 

 the class of 1844, and received his degree in medicine from the same 

 institution in 1847. He at once devoted himself to the study of 

 experimental physiology and comparative pathology. After a short 

 residence in Boston, he was appointed to the Professorship of Physi- 

 ology in the medical department of the University of Buffalo. He 

 subsequently occupied the same position in the Vermont Medical Col- 

 lege, and in the Long Island College Hospital. In 1861 he became 

 assistant surgeon of the New York Seventh Regiment, and, later, 

 Brigade Surgeon U. S. Volunteers, serving in many important medical 

 duties till February 14, 1864. 



In 1864 he besan his active work in New York and was until his 

 death, on February 12, 1889, connected with the College of Phy- 

 sicians and Surgeons, at first as Professor of Physiology, and from 

 1883 as its President. 



Dr. Dalton was distinctly a teacher. To a thorough knowledge of 

 his subject he added the skill of a successful experimenter, and a com- 



