94. Henry Draper. 
In 1866 he was elected to the chair of Physiology in the Medi- 
cal Department of the University and made Dean of the faculty. 
e managed the affairs of the college with signal ability and, 
by a liberal use of his own private means, brought it success- 
fully out of the trying position in which it was placed by the 
destruction by fire of its building in Fourteenth street. He 
severed his connection with the Medical School in 1873. For 
several years he had added Analytica! Chemistry to the branches 
e taught in the Academic Department. Upon the death of 
his father in January, 1882, he was elected to succeed him 
as Professor of Chemistry, and gave the instruction in both 
chairs until the close of the collegiate year, when he resigned 
his connection with the University entirely. 
Still a third portion of Professor Draper’s time, and this no 
inconsiderable portion, has been given during the past ten years 
to the management of the large business interests in his hands. 
In 1867 he had married the daughter of Courtlandt Palmer, 
Ksq., and upon his death in 1874, Dr. Draper was elected man- 
aging trustee of an immense estate, and was obliged to devote 
himself energetically to the work of reducing it to a solid in 
vestment basis. His success here has been as signal as in the 
work of scientific research and of instruction. 
In 1861 Dr. Draper was appointed Surgeon of the Twelfth 
New York Regiment and served as such with distinction. 
In 1876 he was appointed a Judge in the Photographic Section 
of the Centennial Exhibition. In 1877 he was elected a mem- 
ber of the National Academy of Sciences anda member of the 
American Philosophical Society. In 1879 he received the elec: 
tion of Fellow of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science. He was made a-member of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1881 and of the Astronom- 
ische Gesellschaft in 1875. In 1882 he received almost simul 
taneously the degree of LL.D. from his alma mater and from 
the University of Wisconsin. 
Professor Draper's abilities were many-sided. In science, he 
was eminent in astronomy, in physics, in chemistry and 10 
physiology. He was exceedingly able asa mechanician, as the 
telescopes in his observatory with their wonderfully accurate 
mountings, can testify. As a teacher he was clear, precise an 
considerate. As a business man he is said to have had no supe- 
it had been his custom for eight years, to join his friends, Gen- 
erals Marcy and Whipple of the U.S. army, fora month’s hunt 
