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In 1864 he was elected President of Columbia College 

 and remained in that office until 1888 when ill health neces- 

 sitated his retirement. During his administration he made many 

 changes and improvements in the methods of instruction and the 

 management of the University, and was also instrumental in 

 adding the Law School, the School of Mines, the School of 

 Political Science, and the Library of Economics. Barnard 

 College for women, which was named for him, was established 

 through his influence. In 1865 Dr. Barnard was president of 

 the board of experts in the American Bureau of Mines and in 

 1867 served as a commissioner to the Paris Exposition. He pub- 

 lished a report on machinery and industrial arts in 1868. 



He was a man of wide learning but among the sciences his 

 principal interest was in mathematics. Among his published 

 works are a " Treatise on Arithmetic," " Analytic Grammar with 

 Symbolic Illustrations," " Recent Progress of Science," the 

 " Metric System of Weights and Measures," " Letters on College 

 Government," and " History of the American Coast Survey." 



In i860 Professor Barnard was one of the party of astron- 

 omers who observed the eclipse of the sun in Labrador, and in 

 1862 he worked on Gilliss' observations of the stars of the 

 Southern Hemisphere. He was President of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science in 1 860, of the Amer- 

 ican Institute in 1872, and of the American Metrological Society. 



His death occurred in New York, April 27, 1889. He 

 bequeathed his estate to Columbia University with which he 

 had been so long connected. 



JOHN GROSS BARNARD 

 Born, May 19, 1815; died, May 14, 1882 



John Gross Barnard, born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, May 

 19, .1815, was descended on both sides from New England 

 ancestors. He obtained his early education in the village school 

 and from his uncle, who was a teacher at Hartford, Connecticut. 

 When 14 years old, an opportunity was ofifered him by General 

 Porter to enter the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. 



