I04 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



National Academy were connected with one or the other of 

 these societies, and that of the whole number of incorporators 

 only four were not members of any of them. It would seem 

 almost certain that the little group of men that guided the 

 Academy movement had these lists before them when engaged 

 in the selection of incorporators. Doubtless there were good 

 reasons why the fifty original members, or some of them, were not 

 notified of their inclusion in the list in advance of the passage of 

 the Act of Incorporation, but it is significant that only two 

 declined membership, or resigned in the months immediately 

 following that event. 



The Academy has published sketches of the lives of nearly 

 all the incorporators in the series known as the Biographical 

 Memoirs, of which seven volumes have been issued. It has not 

 seemed necessary or desirable to gather the same information 

 again from original sources, but an attempt has been made to 

 summarize, in the pages which follow, the principal events in 

 the lives of the original members. The matter has been derived 

 in the majority of cases from the Biographical Memoirs, and in 

 each instance the authority is cited. 



The original list of incorporators as it appears in the Act of 

 1863 is as follows: 



Louis Agassiz, Massachusetts. J. D. Dana, Connecticut. 



J. H. Alexander, Maryland. Charles H. Davis, United States 



S. Alexander, New Jersey. Navy, Massachusetts. 



A. D. Bache, at large. George Engelmann, St. Louis, Mis- 



F. A. P. Barnard, at large. souri. 



J. G. Barnard, United States Army, J. F. Frazer, Pennsylvania. 



IMassachusetts. Wolcott Gibbs, New York. 



W. H. C. Bartlett, United States J. M. Gilliss, United States Navy, 



Military Academy, Missouri. Kentucky. 



U. A. Boyden, Massachusetts. A. A. Gould, Massachusetts. 



Alexis Caswell, Rhode Island. B. A. Gould, Massachusetts. 



William Chauvenet, Missouri. Asa Gray, Massachusetts. 



J. H. C. Coffin, United States Naval Arnold Guyot, New Jersey. 



Academy, Maine. James Hall, New York. 



J. A. Dahlgren, United States Navy, Joseph Henry, at large. 



Pennsylvania. J. E. Hilgard, at large, Illinois. 



