Bache, ALEXANDER

DALLAS, LL.D., 1806-1867. Great grandson of Benjamin Franklin; prof. Univ. Pa. 1828; pres. Girard College 1836, where he established a magnetic a and meteorolog orological observatory; superintendent U. S. Coast Survey from 1843; first pres. National Academy of Sciences 1863. Magnetic Observations made at Girard College , 3 vols., 1840-47; Lectures on Switzerland , 1870.