Bruce, Archibald
physician, educator, was born in February, 1777, in New York. In 1807 he was appointed professor of materia medica and mineralogy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, being the first to fill such a chair in the United States. After 1812 he filled the same chair in Queen's, now Rutgers, college, New Jersey. He projected the American Mineralogical Journal in 1810, and edited it until 1814. His chemical analysis of native magnesia from New Jersey made known to science the mineral now called after him, Brucite. He died Feb. 22, 1818, in New York.