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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, i887-'88. 



CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR. 



NEW YORK. 

 Regent ex officio, 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, i88i-'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 



