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MISCELLANEOUS. 
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Arr. XVIII. Biographical Notice of the Late Ancumacp’ ies, 
M.D. Professor of Materia Medica and Mineralogy: in the 
~ Medical Institution of the State of New-York, and Queen’s Col- ~ 
lege, New-Jersey ; and Member ee various Learned aeahaias in 
| America and Europe. 
(Communicated.) 
Docror Archibald Bruce, (the subject of this Memoir). 
Was a native of the city of New-York, in North America. | He 
Was born in the month of February, in the year seventeen 
dred and seventy-seven.’ His father was, at that time, at 
the head of the medical department of the British army, 
stationed at New-York) to which he had been attached from 
his youth, having been many years previously resident at New- 
York, as make = to the artillery department; where he was 
about | year seventeen hundred and sixty- 
4 hi yard, formerly of . 
vi e, Jeremiah Van Rens- 
ad another son, (who died 
anda daughter, who 
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died While a child. 
illiam Bruce, (the father above icieeitoial) and his isha 
ther rchibatd together with a sister, were natives of the town 
of Dumfries. in Scotland, where their father was many years 
resident as the parochial aie rom and much sh dies 2: and so 
‘ontinued until his deceas 
Both sons applied Seda to the science of medicine and 
surgery. William, as above stated, became a physician in the 
British Army, and died in that station, of.the yellow fever, im 
the island of Barbadoes. | Archibald received a commission 
of ‘Surgeon in the British navyyi in which ies continued until 
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