Show PROF prop JOHN joeen W DRAPER the Anocia associated ted press which is is N very prompt in loading the editorial tables with pi piles I es of trivial political trash and frivolous society gos alp sip only varied by hideous details ot chocking crimes failed to report the departure from this field of in nestor and leader among american naturalists natura lists john wm win draper D LL D who died early on the morning odthe of the fth at his home on the hill of hastings onalle hudson in his K year was ivas born at st Hi helens lens near liverpool E england on may fth 1811 he received his early education in a careful manner his father being a clergyman and the study of chemistry and phy physics gies soon fascinating his unusually powerful mind he entered london university ver sity there he be devoted himself assiduously and successfully to the pur suit of investigations into the secrets of matter until 1833 when he crossed the atlantic finding severa several relatives in the U united cited states who had bad preceded him thither after three years indus industrious arious devoti devotion ion to scientific studies lie in V 1836 received the degree of doctor of medicine from the university of philadelphia and a few weeks after he lle was appointed professor at hamp den owney colle college ale va where he was active for t three years tears both in dispensing I of and adding to his already phenomenal fund knowledge in 1839 1899 lie was ellered and accepted the chair of chemistry and natural philosophy at the university of the city of new york which he lie continued to occupy until the time of ce all these years he hp levied devoted with indefatigable zeal and rare success to tho the favorite study of natural science in his early years already he made many important discoveries in optics calori cs electricity magnetism etc A specialty of great interest and value lvere were his researches into the influence of sunlight and artificial light on the growth of planta plants his essays were vere published in european scientific magazines such as the london and edinburg philo pai fo journal this course he chose on a account of the backward condition conditions of science in this country at the time in consequence cin consequence sequence of this how however everit it frequently happened in snafter after years that many so called discoveries were claimed by various men which prof draper had made and announced long years before to establish and fix the priority of his numerous and honorable claims in that direction he collected his early scientific essays in in a single volume published under the title of scientific memoirs airs but prof draper was also an author of no mean rank on the field of history his greatest work in that direction is his history of the american civil war published in three volumes between 1867 and 1870 this work called up much adverse criticism from the interested politicians and prejudiced mili tary gitil on account of its cool unimpassioned analytical presentation of the facts it another historical work that has been largely translated in europe is his Ili history story of the intellectual development of europe ca vols it is eminently preeminently pre pervaded by a spirit of skepticism leading the eminent author at times into inaccuracies although as a whole tho the work is an almost inexhaustible storehouse of scientific facts his conflict of religion and science produced great excitement at the time of its publication as it was written in estyle of bitterness more the pica plea of an interested attorney on one side of the case than an historians impartial exposition of the proa and cons of both sides nevertheless prof drapers life has been a useful one devoted to the interests of science and thereby to the promotion of tho the welfare ot of his fellow men tucson jan by thea the accidental cei dental discharge di ofa of a pistol in the jackson saloon here today to day three men were wounded none of the injuries arc are serious er iou |