BARNARD, Frederick Augustus Porter, American educator: b. Sheffield, Mass., 5 May 1809; d. 27 April 1889. He was graduated at Yale College in 18?-8; instructor there in 1830; professor of mathematics and natural philoso phy in the University of Alabama, 1837-48, and afterward of chemistry and natural history till 1854; professor of mathetnatics and astronomy in the University of Mississippi, 1854-61; its president in 1856-58, and its chancellor in 1858-61. He was president of Columbia Col lege, New Yorlc, in 1864-88. In 1860, he was appointed a member of the expedition to ob serve the eclipse of the sun in Labrador; was engaged in 1862 in reducing observations of the stars in the southern hemisphere; had charge of the publication of charts and maps of the United States Coast Survey in 1863; was named one of the original incorporators of the National Acad emy of Sciences in 1863; was one of the United States commissioners to the Paris Exposition in 1867; member of the American Philosophical Society, corresponding member of the Royal Society of Liege, and member of many other scientific and literary associations. Atnong his
publications are 'Letters on College Govern ment) (1854) ; (Report on Collegiate Educa tion' (1854) ; (Art Culture' (1854) ; (History of the American Coast Survey' (1857) ; 'Uni versity Education) (1858) ; (Undulatory The ory of Light' (1862) ; (Machinery and Proc esses of the Industrial Arts, and Apparatus of Exact Science' (1868) ; (Metric System of Weights and Measures' (1871) ; (Recent Progress of Science,' etc. Barnard College, affiliated with Columbia University, was named in his honor.