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of Edinburgh, Session 1867 - 68 . 
Magazine , a selection from which was published in three volumes. 
In 1852 he received the honour of a Baronetcy from the Earl of 
Derby during his short term of office. 
Although of a robust constitution, Sir Archibald was attacked 
with a severe affection of the throat in the beginning of May 
1867, and on the 23d of the same month he died at Possil House, 
near Glasgow, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. Sir Archibald 
was married in 1825 to the youngest daughter of Colonel Patrick 
Tytler, the brother of Lord Woodhouselee, who still survives him; 
and he has left a daughter, and two sons, who have both dis- 
tinguished themselves in the army. 
Alexander Dallas Bache, LL.D., an eminent natural philosopher 
and engineer, was a descendant of the celebrated Franklin. He 
graduated at the Military Academy at West Point in 1825, and held 
such a high rank in his class that he was immediately appointed 
Professor of Engineering in that institution, but he held the chair 
only for a year. After serving as an officer in the corps of Engineers, 
for three years, he was appointed, in 1827, to the chair of Natural 
Philosophy and Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, the 
duties of which he discharged with distinguished ability. In 1833, 
he was elected superintendent of the Girard College, which had been 
established in Philadelphia under the princely bequest of Stephen 
Girard. In 1843, on the death of Professor Karsler, he was appointed 
superintendent of the United States Survey, a position in which, for 
a period of twenty-three years, he exhibited high scientific acquire- 
ments and unrivalled administrative talents. His annual reports 
to Congress form a series of valuable contributions to science, and 
have been much admired in every part of Europe. While he was 
president of Girard College, between 1836 and 1841, he was directed 
by the Board of Trustees to report upon the state of education in 
Europe. With this view he spent a year abroad, accompanied by 
his wife, and published in 1839 the result of his inquiries. On this 
occasion he visited Scotland, and I had the great pleasure of a 
visit from this distinguished philosopher. 
When the Congress established, on the 3d March 1863, their 
National Academy of Science, he was unanimously elected their 
