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*Baird, Spencer Fullerton, elected in 1864, naturalist, 

 icretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Barker, George Frederic, elected in 1876, physicist, 

 Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



*Chauvenet, William, original member, mathema- 

 tician, Professor of Mathematics and Chancellor of 

 Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., and author 

 of Chauvenet's mathematical text-books. 



irania, Philadelphia, fa. CMttenden, Russell Henry, elected in 1890, chemist, 



*Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter, original member, Professor of Physiological Chemistry at Yale Uni- 

 physicist, President of Columbia College, New York versity. New Haven, Conn. 



n *Clark, Henry James, elected in 1872, naturalist, Pro- 

 member, engineer, fessor of Veterinary Science in the Massachusetts Ag- 

 ricultural College, Amherstj Mass. 



*Coffin, James Henry, original member, meteorolo- 

 gist, Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at La- 

 fayette College, Easton, Pa., and author of various 

 mathematical text-books. 



*Coffin, John Huntington Crane, original member, 

 mathematician, Professor of Mathematics in United 

 States navy, on duty at the United States Naval 



ph 

 city. 



*Barnard, John Gross, original 



colonel in the United States Corps of Engineers, with' 

 brevet rank of major-general, United States army, and 

 chief engineer on the staif of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 

 during the Richmond campaign. 



Bartlett, William Holms Chambers, original member, 

 mathematician, Professor of Natural and Experimental 

 Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at 

 West Point, N. Y., until retired in 1871. 



ALEXANDER DALLAS BACHE, 

 President of N. A. S., 1863-1868. 



Bell, Alexander Graham, elected in 1883, physicist and 

 inventor of the telephone, Washington, D. C. 



BiDings, John Shaw, elected in 1883, physician, com- 

 piler of the Index Catalogue of the Surgeon-General's 

 Office, Washington, D. C., and Lecturer on Hygiene 

 and Sanitary Science at the School of Mines of Colum- 

 bia College, New York city. 



Boss, Lewis, elected in 1889, astronomer, Director of 

 the Dudley Observatory, Albany, N. Y. 



Bowditcn, Henry Pickering, elected in 1887, physician. 

 Professor of Physiology and Dean at Harvard Medical 

 College, Cambridge, Mass. 



*Boyden, Uriah Atherton, originally named as mem- 

 ber, but never became connected with the Academy, 

 inventor, improved very greatly the construction of 

 the turbine water wheel. 



Brewer, William Henry, elected in 1 880, chemist, Nor- 

 ton Professor of Agriculture at the Sheffield Scientific 

 School of Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 



Brooks, William Keith, elected in 1884, naturalist, 

 Professor of Morphology at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, in Baltimore, Md. 



Brown-Se'quard, Charles Edouard, elected in 1868, physi- 

 ologist, Professor of Experimental Medicine m the 

 College de France, Paris, France. 



Brush, George Jarvis, elected in 1868^, mineralogist, 

 Director of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni- 

 versity, New Haven, Conn. 



Casey, Thomas Lincoln, elected in 1890, engineer, in 

 command of the United States Corps of Engineers 

 with the rank of brigadier-general, and architect of 

 the Washington monument. 



*Caswell, Alexis, original member, physicist, Profess- 

 or of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and Presi- 

 dent, of Brown University. 



Chandler, Charles Frederick, elected in 1874, chem- 

 ist, Professor of Chemistry and dean of the faculty 

 of the School of Mines of Columbia College, New- 

 York city. 



Chandler, Seth Carlo, elected in 1 888, astronomer, for- 

 merly assistant at the Harvard Observatory, now in- 

 dependent investigator, Cambridge, Mass. 



Observatory in Washington, and subsequently in 

 charge of the " American Ephemeris and Nautical Al- 

 manac." Retired in 1877, and from 1848 till his death 

 senior professor in United States navy. 



Comstock, Cyrus Ballon, elected in* 1884, engineer, 

 -colonel in the United States Corps of Engineers, with 

 brevet rank of major-general of volunteers, and senior 

 aide-de-camp to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant during the 

 Kichmond campaign. 



*Cook, George Hammell, elected in 1888, geologist, 

 Professor of Geology and Agriculture at Rutgers Col- 

 lege, New Brunswick, N. J., and State Geologist of 

 New Jersey. 



Cooke, Josiah Parsons, elected in 1872, chemist, Pro- 

 essor of Chemistry and Director of the Chemical 

 Laboratory of Harvard University, and author of 

 " The New Chemistry." 



Cope, Edward Drinker, elected in 1872, paleontologist, 

 long connected with the various geological surveys of 

 the United States, and author of many books treating 

 of evolution. 



Cones, Elliott, elected in 1877, naturalist. Professor 

 of Biology in the Virginia Agricultural ana Mechani- 

 cal College, and writer on theosophy. 



Crafts, James Mason, elected in 1872, chemist, for- 

 merly Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology, and now independent investi- 

 gator, Boston, Mass. 



*Dahlgren, John Adolph, originally named as a mem- 

 ber, but never became connected Avith the Academy, 

 naval officer, rear-admiral in United States navy, and 

 in command of the South Atlantic blockading squad- 

 ron during 1863. 



*Dalton, John Call, elected in 1864, physiologist, 

 President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons 

 of Columbia, New York city, author of " Physiology." 



Dana, Edward Salisbury, elected in 1884, mineralo- 

 gist, curator of minerals at Peabody Museum of Yale 

 University, New Haven, Conn. 



Dana, James Dwight, original member, geologist, 

 Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at Yale Univer- 

 sity, senior editor of " American Journal of Science," 

 and author of text-books on geology and mineralogy. 



Davidson, George, elected in 1884, physicist, assistant 

 on the United States Coast Survey, and in charge of 

 Davidson Observatory, San Francisco, Cal. 



*Davis, Charles Henry, original member, rear- admi- 

 ral in United States navy, and long superintendent of 

 United States Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C. 



*Draper, Henry, elected in 1877, astronomer, leading 

 American authority on celestial photography. 



*Draper, John Christopher, elected in 1877, physicist, 

 Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of 

 the City of New York, and of Chemistry in its medi- 

 cal department, made the first photographic portrait 

 from life, and author of " History ot the American 

 Civil War" and "History of the Conflict between 

 Religion and Science." 



Dutton, Clarence Edward, elected in 1884, geologist, 

 major in the United States army, and formerly in 

 charge of the division of volcanic geology on the 

 United States Geological Survey. 



*Eads, James Buchanan, elected in 1872, civil en- 

 gineer, designer ot the St. Louis Bridge and of the 



