Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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Elnlin william Bremer, IHILE., EEE., 1881-1882 llt is not every college in the country that has even one of its Professors listed in the Dictionary of National Biography, the great British authority. The following account of Dr. Draper, taken from the sixteenth volume of this extraordinary encyclopaedia, is worth a reading for itself and is of interqst locally for the mention of Hampden-Sidney College. Draper was Professor at Hampden-Sidney from IS36 to IS39. Here his capabilities for original scientific research found full play, a good physical and chemical laboratory having been organized by President Cushing. Draper himself added a good deal to the equipment, although funds were getting scant during his tenure of oflice. A batch of vouchers, purchases of scientific apparatus, signed by Draper and allowed by the Board of Trustees, is to be seen among the valuable documents deposited in the lVluseum.l ,'t.- '- I OHN WILLIAM DRAPER, Chemist, born at St, l-lelen's, near gg Liverpool, on May 5, l8I l, was educated at Woodhouse. Grove School. Here he showed scientific tastes, and, after some instruction from a private teacher, he completed his studies at University College, ig, ic London. Shortly after attaining his majority, Draper emigrated to the ' V l 'l l United States fin 18331, whither several members of his family had preceded him. l-le studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where . .'l ' . he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1836, presenting as his J - thesis an essay on The Crystallization of Camphor Under the lnllu- ence of light. Draper contributed several papers on physiological problems to the American fournal of Medical Sciences, which led to his appointment, in IS36, as professor of chemistry and physiology lsicl at Hampden-Sidney College, Vir- ginia. l-lere his capabilities for original scientific research found full play, and the publi- cation of his results brought him the offer of the professorship of chemistry and physiology in the University of New York, a post which he accepted in l839. ln 1841 he took an active part in organizing a medical department in connection with the university, acting as secretary until I850, when he succeeded Dr. Valentine Mott as president, an office which he held till 1873. Draper married youngg he had three sons and three daughters. Of his sons, Henry Draper lb. 1837, at Hampden-Sidneyl became famous as an astronomer and spectro- scopist, and John Christopher Draper attained equal celebrity for his researches in physiology. Their father spent the latter part of his life in a quiet retreat at Hastings, on the Hudson, a few miles from New York City. l'le died on January 4, I882, and was buried in Greenwood cemetery, Long Island. Draper distinguished himself in the department of molecular physics, of physiology, and of chemistry. The results of his work appeared mainly in the American journal of bcience, the fournal of the Franklin Institute, and the Philosophical Magazine. His principal papers were devoted to investigations concerning the phenomena of light and heat, and these their author collected and republished in one volume in I878 under the title of Scientific Memoirs-being experimental contributions to a Knowledge of Radiant Energy. ln I835 he published accurate experiments showing that Mrs. Somerville and 12