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seum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1859. Professor 

 (non-resident) of Natural History, Cornell University, 1868. Director 

 Penikese Island School of Natural History, 1873. Original member National 

 Academy of Sciences, 1863. Received Monthyon prize from the Academy 

 of Paris, and Wollaston medal from the London Geological Society. 



JAMES BURRILL ANGELL. 



MICHIGAN. 

 Regent elected by Congress, January 19, 1887 ; reflected January 9, 1893. 



Born in Scituate, Rhode Island, January 7, 1829. Educated in Seekonk, 

 Massachusetts, and North Scituate, Rhode Island. A. B., Brown, 1849. LL. D., 

 Brown, 1868 ; and Columbia, 1887. Professor of Modern Languages and Lit- 

 erature in Brown University, 1853. Editor Providence Daily Journal, i86o-'66. 

 President of University of Vermont, i866-'7i. President of University of 

 Michigan, i87i-'96. U. S. Minister to China, i88o-'82. Commissioner to 

 negotiate a new treaty with China. Commissioner to form treaty with Great 

 Britain in settlement of the fisheries dispute, i8&j-8S. 



CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR. 



NEW YORK. 

 Regent ex qfficio, as Vice-President of the United States, March 4, 1881. 



Born in Fairfield, Vermont, October 5, 1830; died in New York City, No- 

 vember 18, 1886. A. B., Union, 1848. LL. D., Princeton, 1884; and 

 Union, 1884. Principal of an Academy in North Pownal, Bennington County, 

 Vermont, 1851. Admitted to the Bar, New York, 1853. Engineer-in-Chief, 

 as Brigadier-General on Governor Morgan's staff, January i, 1861. Acting 

 Quartermaster-General of New York. Inspector-General, 1862. Collector of 

 the Port of New York, i87i-'78. Vice-President of the United States, 1881. 

 President of the United States, July 20, 1881-84. 



WILLIAM BACKHOUSE ASTOR. 



NEW YORK. 

 Regent elected by Congress, March 2, 1861. 



Born in New York City, September 19, 1792 ; died in New York, November 

 24, 1875. Educated in public schools, New York; later in Heidelberg and 

 Gottingen. Engaged with his father John Jacob Astor in trade with China, 

 i8i5- ( 27. President of the American Fur Company, 1827. Gave $550,000 

 to the Astor Library. 



ALEXANDER DALLAS BACHE. 



CITY OF WASHINGTON. 



Regent elected by Congress, August 10, 1846; reflected January 13, 1853, 



January 17, 1859. 



Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 19, 1806; died in Newport, Rhode 

 Island, February 17, 1867. Graduated United States Military Academy, West 



