. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. educated in privateschools in Northampton and Cambridge, Mass.; grad-uated Harvard, 1870; Leipzig, 1874; Assistantin Astor Library, New York 1876-80; engaged in liter-ary work ; is the author of several catalogues to scien-tific literature. ALFRED TUCKERMAN, , Expert inScientific Literature, was born in New YorkCity, January 15, 1848, son of Lucius and ElizaWolcott (Gibbs) Tuckerman. He is of a distin-
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. educated in privateschools in Northampton and Cambridge, Mass.; grad-uated Harvard, 1870; Leipzig, 1874; Assistantin Astor Library, New York 1876-80; engaged in liter-ary work ; is the author of several catalogues to scien-tific literature. ALFRED TUCKERMAN, , Expert inScientific Literature, was born in New YorkCity, January 15, 1848, son of Lucius and ElizaWolcott (Gibbs) Tuckerman. He is of a distin- VOL. IV. —22 guished New England family, being a great-grand-son of Edward Tuckerman, whose father bore thesame name. His grandparents were Rev. JosephTuckerman, (Harvard 1787), a native ofBoston and a friend and classmate of Chief-JusticeStory and Dr. William Ellery Channing, and Sarah,daughter of Samuel Gary, of Chelsea, Massachusetts,one of whose nieces was the wife of President Fel-ton of Harvard, and another married Professor LouisAgassiz. Henry Tuckerman, Edward Tuckerman(botanist), S. Parkman Tuckerman (musical com-poser), and Charles K. Tuckerman (United States. ALFRED TUCKERM.^N Minister to Greece), were all cousins of his fatherLucius Tuckerman, and Bayard Tuckerman is abrother. His maternal grandfather was ColonelGeorge Gibbs of Newport, Rhode Island, who be-queathed his collection of geological specimens andsome works of art to Yale, and he is a nephew ofWolcott Gibbs, , , Rumford Professor ofPhysics and Chemistry at Harvard. Having spenttwo years at school in Northampton, Massachusetts,he continued his preparatory studies in Cambridge,entering Harvard when eighteen years old. He close though not a forward student, and while notacquiring high rank in any special study he masteredthe entire curriculum to such an extent as to enablehim to make advantageous use of his studies in the 338 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS near future, and during his leisu
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