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Bache, Alexander Dallas

scientist, author, was born July 19, 1806, in Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated at West Point in 1825. In 1843 he was appointed superintendent of the United States coast survey; was one of the founders of the American association for the Promotion of Science; in 1855 was made president of the American Philosophical society; was an active and efficient member of the United States sanitary commission throughout the civil war; and in 1846 was made regent of the Smithsonian institution. In 1833 he edited Brewster's Optics, with notes; in 1840 to 1845 published Observations at the observatory of Girard college; and in 1834, Report of Experiments to Navigate the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal by Steam. He died Feb. 17, 1867, in Newport, R. I.