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AS the sub-title—"Scientist and Educator"— suggests, this is a biography of one whose influence and work not only enriched science, but also had a profound effect on educational development in the United States. In fact, in the words of Rear Admiral Leo Otis Colbert, the present director of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Bache was "one of the great personalities of nineteenth-century America". This man of wide interests was the grandson of a Yorkshireman, Richard Bache, of Settle, and the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin ; it is not surprising that he took such an interest in the development of science and education in Europe.
Alexander Dallas Bache, Scientist and Educator, 1806–1867
By Merle M. Odgers. (Pennsylvania Lives.) Pp. vii + 223. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1947.) 15s. net.
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ANTHONY, H. Alexander Dallas Bache, Scientist and Educator, 1806–1867. Nature 161, 909–910 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161909a0
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