444 FREDERICK AUGUSTUS PORTER BARNARD. 



1868. Iu this address, after a comprehensive survey of recent ad- 

 vances in the science of all the physical forces, in the widest meaning 

 of that phrase, culminating in the doctrine of the conservation and 

 correlation of force, he strenuously opposed the philosophy which 

 confuses mental or moral power with physical force. His last words 

 were : " In conclusion, gentlemen, thanking you for the kind attention 

 with which you have listened to me, permit me to congratulate you 

 on the cheering auspices under which you are once more assembled. 

 You are here in a strength which recalls the happy days when your 

 Association was in the zenith of its prosperity and its usefulness, and 

 which justifies the hope that a fresh career of still more fruitful labors 

 and of higher services to humanity is before it." When, at a later 

 day, the American Metrical Society was instituted, Dr. Barnard was 

 its President. 



Although Dr. Barnard made no great discovery in science, his 

 acquaintance with it was accurate and of wide range. Besides many 

 articles in the Cyclopaedia, he published eleven papers in the American 

 Journal of Science, and four in the Proceedings of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1859, as chairman 

 of a committee of twenty, he made an elaborate report to this As- 

 sociation on the History, Methods, and Results of the U. S. Coast 

 Survey. In 1860, he gave an interesting course of lectures in the 

 Smithsonian Institution, which were published in the Report of 1862. 

 In 1869, he published " Recent Progress in Science," and in 1871, a 

 volume on the Metric System. Dr. Barnard was no specialist ; his 

 love of knowledge included all the sciences, mathematical, physical, 

 and social ; and with it was blended a love of poetry and art. But 

 above all and through all he was an educator. For sixty years edu- 

 cation was the great subject of his thoughts and his professional 

 activity. In early life he published text-books on arithmetic and 

 grammar for schools and colleges. At a later period, he wrote a book 

 upon Art-Culture. He was a frequent contributor to Dr. Henry 

 Barnard's Journal of Commerce and Education. His essays and 

 reports on collegiate and university education, and his letters on col- 

 lege government, attracted attention throughout the country. Books 

 and the periodical and daily press equally served him for the dissemi- 

 nation of his independent views. His pamphlet on University Educa- 

 tion, addressed to the Trustees of the University of Mississippi, was a 

 plea for building up a university in this country; an idea afterwards 

 realized in more than one college, though at the time a voice crying 

 in the wilderness. 



