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	Alexander Dallas Bache (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867), was a charter member of the Academy and its first President, a position he held from its founding in 1863 until his death in 1867.
		Bache organized and oversaw operations, putting to use such then-new technologies as the electric telegraph and photography.
		As President of the new Academy, Bache was instrumental in setting the institution on a firm foundation.
	www.nas.edu /history/members/bache.html (123 words)

	NOAA History - Profiles in Time/Giants of Science/Alexander Dallas Bache
		His mother was Sophia Burret Dallas, daughter of Alexander J. Dallas, and sister of George M. Dallas, whose names are well known in the history of this country, the former as Secretary of the Treasury, and the latter as Vice-President of the United States, and subsequently as minister to the Court of St. James.
		Professor Bache, with his enlightened appreciation of the value of abstract science, kept constantly in view the various problems relative to the physics of the globe, which are directly or even incidentally connected with the survey of the coast, and ever cherished the hope of being permitted to complete his labors by their solution.
		Alexander Dallas Bache possessed, or we may perhaps say originally inherited, a mind of strong general powers, with no faculty in excess or in deficiency, but, as a whole, capable of unusual expansion or development in any direction which early training or the education of life might determine.
	www.history.noaa.gov /giants/bache.html (6586 words)

	Bache I
		Alexander Dallas Bache--born on 19 July 1806 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania--graduated from the Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1825 and served in the Army for three years.
		Bache was a regent of the Smithsonian Institution from 1846.
		Bache was assigned to the steam sloop Juniata on the European Station.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/b1/bache-i.htm (629 words)

	Alexander Dallas Bache - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Dallas Bache (July 19, 1806 – February 17, 1867), American physicist, great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was born in Philadelphia.
		After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1825, he acted as assistant professor there for some time, and as a lieutenant in the corps of engineers he was engaged for a short time in the erection of coastal fortifications.
		See an 1858 map Preliminary chart of entrance to Brazos River, Texas / from a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A. Bache ; triangulation by J.S. Williams ; topography by J.M. Wampler ; hydrography by the parties under the command of E.J. De Haven and J.K. Duer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Dallas_Bache (348 words)

	A. D. Bache Collection, American Philosophical Society
		Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an important scientific reformer during the early nineteenth century.
		Bache was an active member of the American Philosphical Society and the Franklin Institute, seeking to raise the professional standards of both institutions and urging them to place a stronger emphasis on original research.
		Although Bache was unable to apply the report at Girard College because of its delayed opening, it proved useful in overhauling the curriculum of Philadelphia's Central High School, where he was superintendent from 1839-1842, and was widely influential among American educational reformers, helping to introduce the Prussian educational model to the United States.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/b/bachead.htm (2404 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > George Mifflin Dallas, 11th Vice President (1845-1849)
		Alexander Dallas, a politically well-connected Philadelphia lawyer, served as secretary for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and reporter for the opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts then meeting in that city, which was at the time the nation's capital and leading commercial center.
		Dallas continued to be sensitive about the administration's distribution of major appointments, as he sought to strengthen his Pennsylvania political base in order to weaken the Buchanan faction and enhance his own presidential prospects.
		Dallas told his wife that he was tempted to return home, leaving his Senate duties to a president pro tempore, but he felt obligated to remain at the Capitol for the important business of receiving the presidential electoral ballots, addressed to his attention, that were then arriving from the individual states.
	senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_George_Dallas.htm (6119 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: BACHE, ALEXANDER DALLAS
		Alexander Dallas Bache was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 19, 1806, the eldest child of Sophia (Dallas) and Richard Bache.
		Bache graduated from the Military Academy at West Point in 1825 and served in the Corps of Engineers.
		From 1843 to 1861 Bache served as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and much of the coast of Texas was surveyed by teams working under his direction.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/fba1.html (316 words)

	Alexander Dallas Bache Biography / Biography of Alexander Dallas Bache Biography
		American educator and scientist Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was the first president of the National Academy of Sciences.
		Alexander Bache, the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1806.
		Bache's interest in the broader problems of education became a full-time occupation in 1836, when he accepted the presidency of a new college for the education of "poor male white orphan children." The college bore the name of its benefactor, Stephen Girard, a wealthy Philadelphia merchant who had died in 1831.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-alexander-dallas-bache (527 words)

	BACHE1
		Bache was not merely an academic concerned with interesting, although marginally useful, phenomena; he was also concerned with the establishment of a uniform system of weights and measures; and, like Hassler, he was an advocate of the metric system.
		Bache's modus operandi was quite different; he understood, better than anyone, the strength of the growing scientific infrastructure of the nation and used that strength as a political and moral tool.
		Bache was quite astute politically; besides gaining the constituency of the states in which he had crews conducting operations, he attempted to address all of the concerns voiced in the Congressional investigation of the Survey under Hassler early in his tenure.
	www.lib.noaa.gov /edocs/BACHE1.htm (8593 words)

	NOAA Ocean Explorer: History: Early Years (1807-1865)
		Bache proved to be a thoroughly modern science administrator, a great leader, and a man with virtually unlimited vision.
		Bache envisioned a system of transects taken across the Gulf Stream at right angles to the assumed axis of the current, with repeated observations, at different times of the year, over an extended period of years.
		Bache's captains discovered and named the "cold wall," the high-temperature-gradient zone that marks the transition between the cooler inshore waters north of Cape Hatteras and the warm Gulf Stream waters.
	oceanexplorer.noaa.gov /history/early/early.html (813 words)

	American Prometheus -- The American System
		Bache was the "chief" of this science and intelligence grouping, which functioned together, for the single purpose of national development, with the rest of the Philadelphia top command: political economist Henry Carey, and the industrial leaders grouped around the Pennsylvania Railroad.
		Alexander Dallas Bache's lab assistant in 1833, assistant to the state geological survey in 1836, and taught in the Philadelphia school system from 1837 until 1844.
		Alexander Holley was hired by Andréw Carnegie for the construction, in the midst of the Panic of 1873, of the world's greatest and most modern plant, the J. Edgar Thomson steel works.
	members.tripod.com /~american_almanac/prometh2.htm (9106 words)

	Ocean Currents Exploration: 2. Density-driven currents - Getting Your Bearings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alexander Dallas Bache, second superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey.
		But, it was Franklin’s great grandson, Alexander Dallas Bache, who made significant progress in the study of the Gulf Stream.
		Bache assumed, although he had no scientific data to prove it, that there was a cold current running underneath the Gulf Stream.
	www.studyofplace.com /Activities/Activity.cfm?ActivityId=8&ActivityItemId=56&ActivityItemPageSequenceNumber=1 (478 words)

	Richard Bache - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His wife, Sarah Bache (1744-1808), was widely known for patriotism and benevolence.
		Their son, also Richard Bache, served in the Republic of Texas Navy and was elected as a Representative to the Second Texas Legislature in 1847.
		U.S. Navy surgeon Benjamin Franklin Bache (1801–1881) and the physicist Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867) were grandsons of the elder Richard Bache (and great-grandsons of Benjamin Franklin).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Bache (131 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, The National Academy of Sciences: The First Hundred Years, 1863-1963 (1978) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bache that all the institutions in which he was interested the Coast Survey, Lighthouse Board, the Smithsonian, the Commission, and the Academ~were prospering.25 To distract her fretting husband as he seemed to mend, Mrs.
		Bache considered taking him on an overland journey to California that summer, but was persuaded by Henry it was impossible "on account of the Indians" and because no military troops were going out as escort.
		The income of the $40,000 estate was to be devoted to "the prosecution of researches in physical and natural science by assisting experimentalists and ob- servers," and administered by his designated representatives of physics, natural history, and mathematics and their successors, any two of whom in agreement might determine the subjects and sums for research.
	www.nap.edu /openbook/0309025184/html/79.html (5969 words)

	For "Our Age and Country:" Nineteenth-Century Art Education at Central High School; essay by Amy Werbel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Bache was instructed as a child at a private academy in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
		Bache was the product of another type of institution as well, however, and it was these later experiences that the educator drew upon in devising the Central program.
		Odgers notes that Bache probably graduated from the Clermont Academy or Seminary, at the time under the direction of John Sanderson, whom Bache later termed his "beloved preceptor." Sanderson was an aggressive proponent of classical education who upheld the cause in debate with educational reformers.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/3aa/3aa248.htm (3344 words)

	Commander George Mifflin Bache, USN - an inventory of his collection at the Navy Department Library
		George Mifflin Bache [2nd] was born in Washington, DC on 12 November 1840.
		Note: It appears likely that George Mifflin Bache [2nd] was the son of the Commander George Mifflin Bache [1st] of the US Coast Survey who perished in a gale off Cape Hatteras, 8 September 1846.
		A contemporary journal on rigging that appears to have been kept by his uncle, Alexander Dallas Bache, who was made Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, is included in the collection as well.
	www.history.navy.mil /library/manuscript/bache_george.htm (622 words)

	Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bache played a central role in the organization of a number of key scientific institutions, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Smithsonian Institution, and the National Academy of Sciences.
		In the middle of the nineteenth century, Bache became the most important leader of the scientific community through his control of the United States Coast Survey, which he superintended from 1843 until his death in 1867.
		Using richly detailed archival records, Slotten pursues an analysis of Bache and the Coast Survey that illuminates important themes in the history of science in the United States, including the interrelationship among political culture, patterns of patronage, and the institutional practice of science in the United States.
	www.cambridge.org /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521433959 (494 words)

	Online Exclusive: Surveying D.C. Sites (full version) - Archives - Point of Beginning
		Bache was at all of the First Order stations in Maine until 1859 as the survey extended to the border with British North America (now New Brunswick, Canada).
		The giant Alexander Dallas Bache monument is most impressive, but situated next to it, in the form of a broken ships mast carved from white marble, is a monument to Dallas’ brother, George Mifflin Bache, and 10 of the crewmembers of the Brig Peter G. Washington, who was lost at sea.
		Bache was charting the “Atlantic Cold Wall” and the Gulf Stream and began his thermal sections in July off the coast of Sandy Hook.
	www.pobonline.com /CDA/Archives/3336817cac0f6010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0____ (2635 words)

	Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The main focus of the book is an analysis of the activities of Alexander Dallas Bache, great grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the acknowledged ‘chief’ of the American scientific community during the second third of the nineteenth century.
		Bache became the most important leader of the scientific community through his control of the United States Coast Survey, which he superintended from 1843 until his death in 1867.
		Using richly detailed archival records, Slotten pursues an analysis of Bache and the Coast Survey that illuminates important themes in the history of science in the United States.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521433959&print=y (257 words)

	Coastal Survey Maps, Antique Coast Maps - Art Source International - Art Source International
		By the time of Hassler's death in 1843 the foundation for the survey of the coast had been laid and the detailed surveys of the ports and harbors were begun at New York.
		Hassler was succeeded by Alexander Dallas Bache, a great grandson of Benjamin Franklin and grandson of Alexander Dallas, Madison's Secretary of the Treasury.
		Bache's academic and intellectual credentials were impeccable, and he followed Hassler's plan faithfully, adapting it to fit the needs of the expanding United States.
	www.rare-maps.com /antiquemaps_cs.cfm (911 words)

	Bache Coat of Arms, Family Crest
		The Bache family's name is derived from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain.
		Their name originated with an early member who was a person with a hunched back, or some other peculiarity of the back or spine.
		It is hard to say exactly when man first came to the lands that were to become the British Isles, but it can be said with certainty that Paleolithic tribes were flourishing there by 8000 BC.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp/s.Bache/Origin.EN/sId./qx/coatofarms_details.htm (1246 words)

	HHR6b
		Bache was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1828-1941) and superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey (1843-1867).
		During the Civil War Bache served on the U.S. Sanitary Commission with Olmsted.
		After Bache's death, C.P. Patterson, who worked for Bache, sent a sketch to Olmsted requesting his aid in erecting a monument to Bache.
	www.homestead.com /hereibe/HHR6b.html (470 words)

	Record Unit 7053 - Alexander Dallas Bache Papers, 1821-1869
		Materials include correspondence, 1836-1838, while Bache was in Europe conducting a study of education for Girard College; correspondence with scientific figures; and personal correspondence.
		Letters written during the period of Bache's visit to Europe, including England and the Continent; correspondence regarding details of his visitations to educational institutions and reports to Nicholas Biddle, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Girard College; and correspondence with scientific figures, including Michael Faraday and Joseph Henry.
		This series includes correspondence, 1849, 1853-1854, mostly from scientific institutions and important figures, endorsing Bache's administration of the Survey; two reports, one printed on the Survey, 1849, by a committee on the Franklin Institute and the American Philosophical Society; and related materials.
	siarchives.si.edu /findingaids/FARU7053.htm (526 words)

	NOAA Photo Library - Historic C&GS Album - Oceanography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		That expedition was a defining moment in the science of oceanography; but the United States had a thriving oceanographic heritage extending back to the Eighteenth Century observations of the Gulf Stream by American whaling captains and the subsequent mapping of that great river of the sea by Benjamin Franklin.
		Gulf Stream studies were continued in the Nineteenth Century by Alexander Dallas Bache, Franklin's grandson.
		However, the underlying philosophy of observation and parameters to be observed remains the same for today's oceanographers as they were for Bache's captains 150 years ago.
	www.photolib.noaa.gov /historic/c&gs/oceanography.html (467 words)

	ALEXANDER DALLAS BACHE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 04/05/1849
		Alexander, who I understand is likely to be in the Senate from Maryland in place of Mr.
		He was succeeded by Thomas G. Pratt, former Governor of Maryland, not by Alexander.
		Physicist ALEXANDER D. BACHE was Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey (1843-1867) when he wrote this letter.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2003/scientists/ALEXANDER_DALLAS_BACHE.htm (251 words)

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