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Draper, John William

scientist, author, was born May 5, 1811, near Liverpool, England. He was a distinguished scientist who came from England to the United States in 1832, and from 1839 to 1881 was connected with the university of New York. He was the author of History of the Civil War in America; History of the Intellectual Development of Europe; The Future Civil Policy of America; Human Physiology; Elements of Chemistry; Text-Book of Natural Philosophy; Text-Book on Physiology; Researches in Actino-Chemistry; Scientific Memoirs; and History of the Conflict between Religion and Science. He died Jan. 4, 1882, in Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y.