Home › B › Barnard (FREDERICK AUGUS- Art Gallery)

Barnard (FREDERICK AUGUS- Art Gallery)

FREDERICK AUGUS- Art Gallery, and the Northern Counties TUS PORTER, an American educator, born in Sheffield, Mass., May 5, 1809; College in 1828; instructor there in 1830; Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Alabama in 1837- 1848, and afterward of Chemistry and Natural History till 1854; Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in the University of Mississippi , 1854-1861; its president in 1856-1858 ; and its Chancellor in 1858-1861.

He was president of Columbia College, New York City, in 1864-1888. In 1860 he was appointed a member of the expedition to observe 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 Academy 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.

Among his publications are " Letters on College Government" (1854) "Report Education" (1854); "Art Culture" (1854); " History of the American Coast Survey" (1857); "University Education" (1858); Education" (1858) "Undulatory Theory and Procof Light" (1862); "M esses of the Industrial Arts, and Apparatus of Exact Science paratus of Exact Science" (1868) ; "Metand Measures" (1871); etc. He died in New York City, April 27, 1889.