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MISCELLANEOUS. 



Art. XVIII. Biographical Notice of the late Archibald 

 Bruce, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica and Mine- 

 ralogy in the Medical Institution of the State of Nezo- 

 York, and Queen'' s College, Kezo- Jersey ; and Member of 

 various Learned Societies in America and Europe, With 

 a Portrait. 



(Communicated.) 



X^OCTOR Archibald Bruce, (the subject of this Memoir) 

 was a native of the city of New-York, in North America. He 

 was born in the month of February, in the year seventeen 

 hundred and seventy-seven. His father was, at that time, at 

 the head of the medical department of the British army, (then 

 stationed at New-York) to which he had been attached from 

 his youth, having been many years previously resident at New- 

 York, as surgeon to the artillery department ; where he was 

 married, in or about the year seventeen hundred and sixty- 

 seven, to Judith, a daughter of Nicholas Bayard, formerly of 

 the same city, at that time the widow of Jeremiah Van Rens- 

 selaer of Greenbush f by whom he had another son, (who died 

 an otficer in the British -army in Ireland) and a daughter, who 

 died while a child. 



William Bruce, (the father above-mentipned,) and his bro- 

 ther Archibald, together with a sister, were natives of the town 

 of Dumfries in Scotland, where their father was many years 

 resident as the parochial clergyman ; and so continued until 

 his decease, much respected. 



Both sons applied themselves to the science of medicine and 

 surgery. Wilham, as above stated, became a physician in the 

 British army, and died, in that station, of the yellow fever, in 

 the island of Barbadoes. And Archibald received a commis- 

 sion of surgeon in the British navy, in which he continued until 



