234 Miscellaneous Inidligence. 



tioa hoped for, he returned to St. Louis in June, : 



hist iu paralysis of the oerebelhim. He was bur 

 ChanooUor Chauveuet was horn in Miiford, in i 

 sylvania, and removed at an earlv a<re with liis 

 delphia. His lather, AVillium M. Cliauvc net 



Trofessor Uaehe in taking nieleorologieal observations ai 



position of instruetor in niathematies'^at tlie U. S. Naval A- 

 in Philadelphia. Shortly after, wlien it was proposed to i" 

 Naval Academy at Annapolis, the measure found a wan;. 

 cate in the youiig Professor, and when the institution w:i- 

 hshed in I84o, he was made one of the Board of Direino,-, 

 fessor of Astronomy and .Matlieniaties, and Director of the O^ 

 atory. For the nevt Ihurtcen vears he was acknowlediroJ a 

 chief agrnt in buildinu- up the Aradeniv. 

 , ^ In 1^59 he wa> elreu.l [;n)fe^M.r <>f_ Astronomy and Matlu 



offiTCd ti^ p!SJsso.-siliI)'of XanIn.M''hii(!M^ !ind Alltionm' 

 1 ale College, where the chair oi' Mathematics had al^o bft 

 his ilisposal a few years before, lie acce].te<l the profes^orsli 

 St. Louis, and began his work there in the autiunn oi 1^.')9. 'J 

 years later, on tlie death of his chis^tnate. Chancellor Iloyt. 

 office of Chancellor of the University was also given liim. 



In addition to his professional labors, Chancellor (liaa\ • 

 the author of several scientiiic works of recooni/e.l imr; 

 first was a text-book, entitled "Binomial Tlieorem an.: 

 nthms." (Philad., 1843. 92 pp. 8vo). The standard cli.ii. 

 his second work—" A Treatise on Plane and Spherical Tri. 

 etry," (Philad., 250 pp. Svo),— is attested l>y the fact that i:- 

 were greater in 1869, nineteen years after 'its first issue.! 

 any previous year, lu 1 863 he published a " .Manual of >[ 

 and J ractical Astronomy," (2 vols. 8vo, pp. 708, 0.;2, V\\\\^" 

 original and exhaustive character of which has been no:, 

 the late Professor Bond in this Journal, 2d series, vol. -xx^ 

 159 378. His last work, on Elementary Geometry, writtei. 

 his decline in health, was noticed in tlie last volume of tins .' 



Professor Chauvenet also furnished valuable contribat, 

 this Journal, to Gould's Astronomical Journal, to the Pro- 

 of the A^jierican Association etc Pie was a collaborate 

 preparation of the American 'Ephemeris and Nautical A : 

 lor which he furnished tables for correcting lunar dist;r. 

 method of finding the error and rate of a chronometer b} 

 altitudes, etc, 



|Ie married, 30 Dec, 1st:, Miss Catharine Ilenipb', of Pi.: 



