692 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. 



Bruce, Archibald. Physician and mineralogist.. 



Born in New York City in February, 1777; died in New York, February 22, 1818. 

 During a two years' tour of Europe he collected a valuable mineralogical cabinet, 

 and returned to the United .States in 1803, to enter on the practice of medicine. 

 Assisted in organization of College of Physicians and Surgeons of State of New York. 

 Established Journal of American Mineralogy. Professor of materia medica and 

 mineralogy in College of Physicians of New York and Rutger's College, New Jersey. 

 Biogr. Am. Jour. Sci., I, 1819, pp. 299-304. 



Buckley, Samuel Botsford. Botanist. 



Born near Penn Yan, in Yates County, New York, May 9, 1809; died in Austin, 



Tex. , February 18, 1884. Graduate of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. ,1836. 



Taught botany in Illinois, Alabama, and other Southern States. Discovered zeuglo- 



don skeleton in Clarke County, Ala., in 1841. In 1866-67, State geologist of Texas. 



Bull. Torrey Botanical Club, XI. 



Chamberlin, Thomas Crowder. Geologist. 



Born in Mattoon, 111., September 25, 1843. Graduate of Beloit, 1866. Professor 

 of natural science, State normal school, Whitewater, Wis., 1869-1873; professor of 

 geology, Beloit, 1882-1887; president of University of Wisconsin, 1887-1892. Assist- 

 ant State geologist Wisconsin. 1873-1876; chief geologist Wisconsin, 1876; United 

 States geologist in charge of glacial division since 1882; geologist of Peary Relief 

 Expedition, 1894. Since 1892 head professor of geology, University of Chicago. 



Chance, Henry Martyn. Mining engineer and geologist. 



Born in Philadelphia, January 18, 1856. Graduated from University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, 1874. Assistant geologist, Pennsylvania geological survey, 1874-1884. 



Church, Johx Adams. Metallurgist and .mining engineer. 



Born in Rochester, N. Y., April 5, 1843. Graduated from Columbia in 1867. Acting 

 professor of mineralogy and metallurgy, Columbia School of Mines; editor Engi- 

 neering and Mining Journal, 1872-1874; for some time connected with U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey; professor mining and metallurgy, Ohio State University, 1878-1881. 



Claypole, Edward Waller. Geologist. 



Born in Ross, Hereford, England, June 1, 1835; died in Long Beach, Cal., August 

 17, 1901. Came to United 'States in 1872 and became professor of natural science at 

 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1873. In 1881-1883, connected with 

 second geological survey of Pennsylvania. In 1883, appointed professor of natural 

 science in Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio. In 1898 to time of his death, professor of 

 geology and biology at Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, Cal. 



Biogr. Theo. B. Comstock and Geo. M. Richardson. Amer. Geol., XXIX, 1902, No. 1, pp. 1-47. 



T. B. Comstock. Bull. Geol. Soc. of America, XIII, Feb., 1903, pp. 487-97. 



Cleaveland, Parker. Chemist and mineralogist. 



Born in Essex, Mass., January 15, 1780; died in Brunswick, Me., October 16, 1858. 

 Graduated at Harvard in 1799. In 1805, appointed professor of mathematics, natural 

 philosophy, chemistry, and mineralogy in Bowdoin College, and continued to teach 

 these branches (with exception of mathematics) until time of his death. Is best 

 remembered as a teacher and mineralogist. 

 Biogr. Am. Jour. Sci., XXVI, 1858, pp. 448-9. 



Collett, John. Geologist. 



Born in Eugene, Ind., January 10, 1828; died in Indianapolis, Ind., March 15, 

 1899. Graduated from Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1847. From 1869 

 to 1879 assistant under E. T. Cox in State survey of Indiana, and in last-named year 

 made State geologist and statistician. 1880 appointed geologist in chief for a term of 

 four years. At the end of his term of service he retired to private life. 



