ANNALS 



OF 



PHILOSOPHY. 



JULY, 1819. 



Article I. 



Biographical Notice of the late Archibald Bruce, M.D. Professor 

 of Materia Medico, and Mineralogy in the Medical Institution 

 of the State of New York, and Queen's College, New Jersey, 

 and Member of various learned Societies in America and 

 Europe.* 



Doctor 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 1777. His 

 father was at that time at the head of the medical department of 

 the British army (then stationed at New York) to which he had 

 been attached from his youth, having been many years pre- 

 viously resident at New York, as surgeon to the artillery depart- 

 ment; where he was married, in or about the year 1767, to 

 Judith, a daughter of Nicholas Bayard, formerly of the same 

 city, at that time the widow of Jeremiah Van Renselaer of 

 Greenbush ; by whom he had another son (who died an officer 

 in the British army in Ireland), and a daughter (who died while a 

 child). 



William Bruce (the father above-mentioned) and his brother 

 Archibald, together with a sister, were natives of the town of 

 Dumfries, in Scotland, where their father was many years resi- 

 dent as the parochial clergyman ; and so continued until his 

 decease, much respected. 



Both sons applied themselves to the science of medicine and 

 surgery. William, as above stated, became a physician in the 



» From Silliman's American Journal of Science, ol. i. p. 299. 



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