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for the civil offices in India. He also was an ex- aminer for the Ferguson scholarship open to grad- uates of Scottish universities. He visited the principal German universities in 1858, and those of the United States in 1866, and was called to

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the presidency of the College of New Jersey at Princeton, in 1868, succeeding Dr. John Mac- lean. He was inaugurated in October, 1868, and was professor of biblical instruction and of psy- chology and the history of philosophy. During his administration the number of students in- creased from 264 to 603, a dozen new fellowships were founded, the number of prof essors increased from seventeen to forty-one, the standard of scholarship was raised, the number of buildings was greatly enlarged, the number of books and apparatus was trebled, and the sum of $3,000,000 was added to the funds of the institution, which he raised to the dignity of a university. He resigned the presidency of Princeton university in February, 1887, and his professorship in 1890. He was made president emeritus with his salary continued from his resignation. On April 1, 1891, his eightieth birthday, a silver bowl was pre- sented by the faculty, a gold pitcher by the faculty and alumni during his administration, and a silver cup by the Princeton club of New York city. He was a member of the American Philosophical society ; a fellov;^ of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; a delegate to the general assembly of the Presbyterian church at Philadel- phia, Pa., in 1870, and to the tercentenary cele- bration of the reformation in Scotland at Phila- delphia in 1872, where he presented a scheme for the organization of the Presbyterian alliance ; a moderator of the conference at London, England, which organized the alliance in 1875, and a dele- gate to Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1877. His last public appearance was at the International Con- gress of Education at the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, July, 1893. In 1889 a full length heroic-size tablet of Dr. McCosh, executed by Augustus St. Gaudens, was placed on the walls of Marquand chapel by the class of 1879. He received the honorary degrees : A.M. from Aber-

deen, 1850, LL.D. from Harvard, 1868, and from Queen's university, Ireland; D.D. from Brown and from Washington and Jefferson, 1868, and Litt.D. from Queen's, Ireland, 1882. He contrib- uted articles on various controversial subjects to leading British and American reviews and magazines, and is the author of : The Wheat arid Chaff: a Contribution toward the History of the Disruption at the Scottish Ecclesiastical Establish- ment (18id) ; The Method of the Divine Oovemment, Physical and Moral (1850, 11th ed., 1874); Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation, with Dr. George Dickie (1855) ; TJie Intuitions of the Minds Inductively Investigated (1860, 3d rev. ed., 1872); The Supernatural in RcUition to the Natural (1862); Examination of MilVs Philosophy : Being a Defense of Fundamental Truth (1866); Tfie Laws of Discursive Thought: Being a Treatise on Formal Logic (1869, rev. ed., 1890); ChHstianity and Positivism (1871); The Scottish Philosophy (1874); Ideas in Nature overlooked by Dr. Tyndall (1875); The Development Hypothesis: is it Suffi- cient ? (1876); Tlie Emotions (1880) ; Realistic Phil- osophy Defended in a Philosophic Series (2 vols., 1887); Psychology: the Cognitive Powers (1886); Psychology: the Motive Powers (1887); The Relig- ious Aspect of Evolution (1888) ; First and Funda- mental Truths (1889); The Tests of Various Kinds of Truth (1889); The Prevailing Types of Philos- ophy : Can they Logically Reach Reality f (1890); Our Moral Nature (1892); Philosophy of Reality (1894). See " Life," by William M. Sloane (1896). for complete bibliography. He died at Princeton, N. J., Nov. 16, 1894, and is buried in the Pres- ident's lot in the Princeton cemetery.

McCOSKRY, Samuel Allen, first bishop of Michigan and 32d in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 4, 1804. His maternal grandfather, the Rev. Dr. Charles Nisbet, was president of Dickin- son college. He was a cadet at the U.S. Military academy, 1820-22, and was graduated at Dickin- son college, Pa., A.B., 1825, A.M., 1828. He studied law and was admitted to the bar at Carlisle, Pa., in 1825, and while prac- tising his profession, _..., 1825-31, served as dep- /? t J / '/^ / ^ uty-attorney- general ^^^t:!^ ^^lI^^ of Cumberland coun- ty, 1828-30. He pursued theological studies under Bishop H. U. Onderdonk. 1831-33 ; was ordained deacon in Christ church, Reading,