NOVEMBER 3, 1899.] 
place required a love of science, along with a 
talent for organization. He brought these to 
bear upon the origination of knowledge, and by 
his scientific sympathy and ready recognition 
of others of his guild, he commanded honest 
homage and became the director, helper, and 
umpire in scientific disputation. Did the War 
Department require his aid in meteorology ? He 
gave the plan of weather signals. Did the 
Census Bureau ask his help? He planned the 
remarkable atlas as to rain-falls and temper- 
ature. Did the Coast Survey require scientific 
Suggestions, or the Centennial Commissioners 
his judgment, or the new library and the 
“School of Art’ a friend and adviser; or the 
Light House board laws of sound for fogs, and 
cheaper and better illumination? He freely 
gave what was gladly welcomed.. His institu- 
tion gave Agassiz opportunity to study fishes, 
Baird, birds, and all students encouragement 
to investigate our American archeology and 
ethnology, as well as our fauna and flora.* 
Those who are willing to know more of 
Henry’s great work need only consult 
‘The Memorial Volume,} published by the 
Smithsonian Institution shortly after his 
death. Jadd the last sentences of Goode’s 
sketch of him, which was published in the 
History of the First Half Century of the 
Smithsonian Institution : 
What Franklin was to the last century, 
Henry is to this, and as the years go by his 
fame is growing brighter. The memorial ser- 
vice in his honor, held in 1878, in the hall of 
the United States House of Representatives, 
was a national event. In 1883 his monument 
in bronze, by the greatest of American sculp- 
tors, was erected by Congress in the Smith- 
sonian Park. The bestowal of his name upon 
the unit of induction in 1893 was an indication 
of his foreign appreciation, while, as a still 
nobler tribute to his fame, his statue has been 
placed under the great rotunda of the National 
Library, the science of the world and of all 
time being symbolized by these two great men, 
Newton and Henry.{ 
*Tdem, p. 103. Address of Hon. S. S. Cox. 
+A Memorial of Joseph Henry, Washington, 1880. 
{The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896. The 
SCIENCE. 
629 
Beginning with 1850 the Association in- 
augurated the custom of holding a meeting 
in the spring of the year as well as one in 
the late summer. These earlier gatherings 
were held in the cities of the south and 
west, and the first of them, in March, 1850, 
was convened in Charleston, South Carolina, 
then a city of much scientific activity. 
Over this meeting Alexander Dallas Bache 
was chosen to preside. 
BACHE. 
Birth, education, and association com- 
bined to qualify Bache in an unusual de- 
gree for the many important duties to which 
he was called. He was the son of Richard 
Bache, one of the eight children of Sarah, 
the only daughter of Benjamin Franklin, 
and was born in Philadelphia in 1806. He 
was educated at the United States Military 
Academy in West Point and graduated at 
the head of the class of 1825 (of which he 
was the youngest member), with the un- 
usual distinction of completing that rigid 
course of four years without receiving a 
single demerit. An appointment in the 
Corps of Engineers followed, and after 
serving a year as assistant professor of en- 
gineering at West Point, he was assigned 
to duty under Colonel Joseph G. Totten, 
in Newport, Rhode Island. 
In 1829 he resigned from the army to ac- 
cept the chair of natural philosophy and 
chemistry in the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, in Philadelphia, where he remained 
until 1843, leading a life of great activity, 
for he was a guiding influence in nearly 
every scientific movement in the city of his 
birth. He was appointed chairman of one 
of the most important of the committees of 
the Franklin Institute, and was chosen as 
the expounder of the principles of the In- 
stitute at its public exhibitions. He was 
an active member of the American Philo- 
History of its First Half Century, Washington, 
1897, p. 156. ; 
