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General Officers 



GENERAL OFFICERS, 1848-1940 



Roll of the Presidents 



*William B. Rogers (geology) (Acting until 

 the election of President Rcdfield) 



♦W. C. Redfield (geology) 1848 



*Joseph Henry (physics) 1849 



*A. D. Bache (geography) 1850 



♦Louis Agassiz (zoology) 1851 



(No meeting in 1852) 



♦Benjamin Peirce (physics) 1853 



*James D. Dana (anthropology) 1854 



*John Torrey (botany) 1855 



♦James Hall (geology) 1856 



♦J. W. Bailey (chemistry) 1857 



*Jeffries Wyman (medicine) 1858 



* Stephen Alexander (astronomy) 1859 



♦Isaac Lea (geology) i860 



(No meetings 1861-1865 and no presidents) 



*F. A. P. Barnard (astronomy) 1866 



♦J. S. Newberry (geology) 1867 



*B. A. Gould (astronomy) 1868 



*J. W. Foster (geography) 1869 



*Wm. Chauvenet (mathematics) 1870 



♦Asa Gray (botany) 1871 



*J. Lawrence Smith (chemistry) 1872 



* Joseph Lovering (physics) 1873 



*J. L. LeConte (entomology) 1874 



♦J. E. Hilgard (geography) 1875 



♦William B. Rogers (geology) 1876 



* Simon Newcomb (astronomy) 1877 



*0. C. Marsh (geology) 1878 



♦G. F. Barker (chemistry) 1879 



♦Lewis H. Morgan (anthropology) .... 1880 



*G. J. Brush (geology) 1881 



♦J. W. Dawson (geology) 1882 



*C. A. Young (astronomy) 1883 



*J. P. Lesley (geology) 1884 



*H. A. Newton (mathematics) 1885 



*Edward S. Morse (zoology) 1886 



♦S. P. Langley (physics) 1887 



*J. W. Powell (geology) 1888 



*T. C. Mendenhall (physics) 1889 



♦G. Lincoln Goodale (botany) 1890 



* Albert B. Prescott (chemistry) 1891 



♦Joseph LeConte (geology) 1892 



♦William Harkness (astronomy) 1893 



♦Daniel G. Brinton (anthropology) .... 1894 



♦E. W. Morley (chemistry) 1895 



♦Edward D. Cope (zoology) 1896 



♦Theodore Gill (zoology) (successor to 



Edward D. Cope, deceased.) 



♦Wolcott Gibbs (chemistry) 



*F. W. Putnam (anthropology) 



♦Edward Orton (geology) 



*R. S. Woodward (mathematics) 



*C. S. Minot (medicine) 



♦Asaph Hall (astronomy) 



(first meeting) 



♦Ira Remsen (chemistry) 



(second meeting) 



♦Carroll D. Wright (economics) 



*W. G. Farlow (botany) 



*C. M. Woodward (mathematics) 



♦Wm. H. Welch (medicine) 



♦E. L. Nichols (physics) 



*T. C. Chamberlin (geology) 



♦David S. Jordan (biology) 



♦A. A. Michelson (physics) 



♦Charles E. Bessey (botany) 



♦E. C. Pickering (astronomy) 



♦Edmund B. Wilson (zoology) 



♦Charles W. Eliot (education) 



♦W. W. Campbell (astronomy) 



♦Charles Richard Van Hise (geology) . . 

 ♦Theodore W. Richards (chemistry) . . . 

 ♦John Merle Coulter (botany) 



Simon Flexner (medicine) 



L. O. Howard (entomology) 



♦E. H. Moore (mathematics) 



♦J. Playfair McMurrich (anatomy) 

 ♦Charles D. Walcott (paleontology)... 



J. McKeen Cattell (psychology) 



♦Michael I. Pupin (engineering) 



L. H. Bailey (horticulture) 



♦Arthur A. Noyes (chemistry) 



♦Henry Fairfield Osborn (paleontology) 



Robert A. Millikan (physics) 



Thomas H. Morgan (zoology) 



Franz Boas (anthropology) 



♦John J. Abel (pharmacology) 



Henry N. Russell (astronomy) 



Edward L. Thorndike (psychology) . . . 



Karl T. Compton (physics) 



Edwin G. Conklin (biology) 



George D. Birkhoff (mathematics) . . . 



Wesley C. Mitchell (economics) 



Walter B. Cannon (physiology) 



Albert F. Blakeslee (genetics) 



Asterisk denotes person is deceased. 



