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chemistry at the Albany high school, 1876-87, and was one of the founders of the Albany College of Pharmacy in 1881, serving as professor of chemistry from its foundation, and as president of its faculty from 1883. He was an organizer of the alumni association of Albany Medical college its secretary, 1875-97, and registrar of the college from 1883, and director of the bureau of chemistry. New York state board of health, from 1881. He was married, Sept. 17, 1879, to May, daughter of Charles and Mary (Page) Newman of Albany, N.Y. He was a member of the board of medical examiners. University of the State of New York, 1882-91, and a member of the medical council froin 1901, being a member of the board of governors from 1884. He received the honor- ary degree of Ph.G. from the Albany College of Pharmacy and that of Ph.D. from Union college in 1882. He was elected a fellow of the Chemical society of London, and a member of various other scientific societies. He edited the Albany Medical Annals, 1882-87, and is the author of various con- tributions on chemical subjects to the leading scientific publications.

TUCKERMAN, Bayard, author, was born in New York city, July 2. 1855 ; son of Lucius and Elizabeth (Wolcott) Tuckerman ; grandson of Joseph and Sarah (Cary) Tuckerman and of George and Laura (Wolcott) Gibbs, and a de- scendant of Oliver Wolcott, signer, and of John Tuckerman of Devonshire, England, who landed in Boston in 1650. He was graduated from Har- vard in 1878 ; studied in Europe, and wrote on literary and historical subjects for periodicals. He was married, Sept. 26, 1882, to Anne, daugh- ter of the Rev. Dr. John Cotton Smith of New York. He became lecturer on English literature in Princeton university in 1898, a position he still held in 1903. He is the author of : History of English Prose Fiction (1882); Life of General Lafayette loith a Critical Estimate of his Char- acter and Public Acts (1889) ; and edited with an introduction, "Diary of Philip Hone" (1889); Peter Stuyvesant (1893); William Jay and the Ab- olition of Slavery (1893) ; Life of General Philip Schuyler (1903).

TUCKERMAN, Charles Keating, diplomat, was born in Boston, Mass., March 11, 1821 ; son of Henry Tuckerman, and brother of Henry Theodore Tuckerman (q.v.). He was liberally educated and was the first U.S. minister resident in Greece, serving, 1868-72, and subsequently made his home in Europe. He received the dec- oration of tlie Order of the Saviour from King George, in recognition of his services in Greece, He edited : A. R. Rangabe's " Greece : Her Pro- gress and Present Position " (1867), and is the author of : The Greeks of To-day (1873) ; Poems (London, 1885), and Personal Recollections of

Notable People (1895). He died in Florence, Italy, Feb. 26, 1896.

TUCKERMAN, Edward, lichenologist, was born in Boston, Dec. 7, 1817 ; nephew of Joseph Tuckerman (q.v.). He was graduated from Union college, A.B., 1837, A.M., 1840 ; from Har- vard college, LL.B., 1839, A.B., 1847, and from the Divinity school of Harvard in 1852, having spent the years 1841-42 in special study in Ger- many and Scandinavia. Upon his return from Europe he accompanied Asa Gray on a botanical excursion into New Hampshire, publishing an article descriptive of the specimens indigenous to that locality in the American Journal of Science. He was a lecturer on history in Amherst college, 1854-55, and 1858-73 : professor of history, 1855- 58, and of botany, 1858-86. Amlierst conferred the honorary degree of LL.D. upon him in 1875, and his name is perpetuated in the Tuckermania genus, so-called by Thomas Nuttall, and in " Tuckerman's Ravine," Mt. Washington, N.H. He was elected a fellow of the American Acad- emy of Arts and of Sciences in 1865 ; a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1868, and also held membership in various other scientific organizations at home and abroad. In addition to the examination and classification of the spe- cimens collected by the U.S. exploring expedi- tion, the U.S. geological surveys and those of the Pacific railroad, he assisted Samuel G. Drake in collecting material for his "Book of the Indians" and "Indian Wars," 1832-33. He edited John Josselyn's " New England's Rarities " (1860). His writings, largely on the subject of lichenology, of which he made a specialty, in- clude : Genera Lichenum (1872) ; A Catalogue of Plants growing without Cultivation u'ithin Thirty Miles of Amherst College (1882) ; A Synopsis of the North American Lichens (Fart I., 1882; Part II., posthumously, 1888), and contributions to the Proceedings of scientific societies ; to the New York Mercantile Journal (1832), and to the Churchman (1834-41), A memoir of his life was published by William G. Fariow (1887). He died in Amherst, Mass., March 15, 1886.

TUCKERMAN, Henry Theodore, author, was born in Boston, Mass., April 20, 1813 ; son of Henry Tuckerman, and grandson of Edward and Elizabeth (Harris) Tuckerman, the former con- nected with the organization of the first fire in- surance company of New England. He attended the public schools of Boston, and altliough pre- pared for college did not matriculate, owing to ill liealth. He spent the years 1833 and 1837-39 abroad, remaining nearly all the earliest year in Italy, and on the second trip visited Sicily, resid- ing for some time in Palermo and later in Flor- ence. He then returned to Boston and engaged in literature as a profession, his name soon be-