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He was elected first President of the Academy and served in 

 that capacity from the date of its organization until his death 

 in 1867. He was also a member of many important committees 

 appointed on behalf of the Government, notably those on 

 weights, measures and coinage, and on the collection of excise 

 duties on distilled spirits. 



(From Joseph Henry, in Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of 

 Sciences, vol. I, 1877, pp. i8i-2i2<f. See also B. A GouLD, "Address in com- 

 memoration of Alexander Dallas Bache," Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., vol. 17, 

 1869, pp. 1-56.) 



FREDERICK AUGUSTUS PORTER BARNARD 

 Born, May 5, 1809; died, April 27, 1889 



President Barnard, brother of General John G. Barnard, was 

 born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, May 5, 1809. He began the 

 study of Latin at an early age, but later turned his attention from 

 the classics to mathematics and allied branches of science. After 

 his graduation at Yale in 1828, he became a teacher in the 

 Hartford Grammar School and afterwards a tutor at Yale. 

 In 1 83 1 he was engaged as a teacher in the Deaf and Dumb 

 Asylum at Hartford, Connecticut, and subsequently taught at 

 the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and 

 Dumb. 



In 1837 he was connected with the University of Alabama in 

 the capacity of Professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathe- 

 matics for eleven years, and afterwards as Professor of Chemistry 

 until 1854. During his connection with the University, Pro- 

 fessor Barnard built an astronomical observatory for the insti- 

 tution. During this time he served as a member of a com- 

 mission to settle a dispute concerning the boundary between 

 Alabama and Florida. From 1854 to 1861 he was Professor 

 of Mathematics and Astronomy in the University of Mississippi, 

 was its president from 1856 to 1858, and chancellor from the 

 latter year until 1861. The outbreak of the Civil War caused 

 him to leave the South, and he then became director of printing 

 and lithography in connection with the map and chart depart- 

 ment of the United States Coast Survey. 



