82 The Smithsonian Institution 



Point, New York, 1825. A. M., Yale, 1830. LL. D., University of the City 

 of New York, 1836; University of Pennsylvania, 1837; and Harvard, 1851. 

 Assistant Professor of Engineering in United States Military Academy, 1826. 

 Lieutenant of Engineers, i^'j-'zg. Engaged in constructing Fort Adams 

 and other public works. President of Girard College, Philadelphia, i^a-^g. 

 Professor of Mathematics in University of Pennsylvania, 1827-32. Professor 

 of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry in University of Pennsylvania, i828-*4i, 

 and i842-'43. Principal of Central High School, Philadelphia, i84i-'42. 

 Superintendent of Public Schools. Superintendent United States Coast Sur- 

 vey, November, i843-'67. Vice-President United States Sanitary Commis- 

 sion. President American Philosophical Society, 1855. President American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 1850. Original Member and 

 President National Academy of Sciences, 1863. 



GEORGE EDMUND BADGER. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 

 Regent elected by Congress, February 27, 1856; reflected January 17, 1859. 



Born in Newbern, North Carolina, April 13, 1795; died in Raleigh, North 

 Carolina, May n, 1866. A. B., Yale, 1813. A. M., Yale, 1825. LL. D., Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina, 1834; and Yale, 1848. Admitted to the Bar in 

 Raleigh, North Carolina. Major in War of 1812. North Carolina State 

 Legislature, i8i6-'2o. Judge of North Carolina Superior Court, i820-'25- 

 Secretary of the Navy, March, 1841. Member of U. S. Senate from North 

 Carolina, December 7, i846-March 3, 1855. 



GEORGE BANCROFT. 



CITY OF WASHINGTON. 

 Regent elected by Congress, December 11, 1874. 



Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, October 3, 1800; died in Washington 

 City, January 17, 1891. Educated in Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hamp- 

 shire. A. B., Harvard, 1817. Ph. D., University of Gottingen, 1820. D. C. L., 

 Oxford, 1849. D. J., University of Bonn, 1868. LL.D., Harvard, 1843; 

 and Union, 1840. L. H. D., Columbia, 1843. Tutor in Harvard. Principal 

 of Round Hill School, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1824. Elected to Massa- 

 chusetts Legislature, 1830. Collector of the Port of Boston, i838-'4i. Can- 

 didate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1844. Secretary of the Navy, 1845. 

 Acting Secretary of War, 1846. U. S. Minister to Great Britain, i846-'49. 

 U. S. Minister to Prussia, 1867. U. S. Minister to North German Confeder- 

 ation, 1868. U. S. Minister to Germany, i87i-'74. 



JAMES GABRIEL BERRET. 



CITY OF WASHINGTON. 

 Regent ex officio, as Mayor of Washington, June, i858-June, 1860. 



Born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 12, 1815. Member of House of 

 Delegates of Maryland, i837~'39. Clerk in Register of Treasury's office, 



