Finding Aid for the F.A.P. Barnard Collection (MUM00519)
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Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Original deposit received in 1977. Second accretion received in 1995.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Archives and Special Collections staff. Finding aid encoded by Kathryn Michaelis, July 2012.
Additions
No further additions are expected to this collection.
Alternative Formats
Box 1 contains photocopies of original materials that are owned by Columbia University.
Subject Terms
Formats
Biographical Note
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard joined the faculty of the University of Alabama in 1838 in the Departments of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. He remained in Alabama until 1854, when he accepted a position as a Professor of Mathematics, Astronomy, and Civil Engineering at the University of Mississippi. Two years later, he became President of the University of Mississippi. Shortly after the Civil War erupted, Barnard (and others) resigned their positions and the university closed for four years. Barnard assumed the presidency of Columbia University in New York in 1864 and remained there until his death in 1889.
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists largely of correspondence between F.A.P. Barnard and his brother, John Gross Barnard, and between F.A.P. Barnard and E.W. Hilgard during the years 1834-1886. Hilgard was a chemist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and was appointed state geologist of Mississippi in 1855. His office was located on the University of Mississippi campus. In 1868, Hilgard was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University. The collection also includes letters from Jacob Thompson, an original member of the Board of Trustees of The University of Mississippi, and others.
User Information
Preferred Citation
F.A.P. Barnard Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi
Access Restrictions
The F.A.P. Barnard Collection is open for research.
Box 1 contains photocopies of original materials owned by Columbia University. These materials may not be photocopied.
Copyright Restrictions
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Related Material
Resources at the University of Mississippi
For more resources related to the University of Mississippi, please see the Archives' University of Mississippi Subject Guide.
Resources at Other Repositories
Frederick A.P. Barnard Papers, Columbia University
Separated Material
The following items have been removed from this collection for cataloging:
"Gratitude Due for National Blessings a Discourse, Delivered at Oxford, Mississippi on Thanksgiving Day, F.A.P. Barnard," 20 November 1856. Call number: BV4305.B3 1857
Two papers on Academic Degrees I. on the regulation and control of the degree-conferring power II. On the origin and significancy of academic degrees, F.A.P. Barnard, 1880. Call number: LB2381 B27 1880
Arrangement
This collection consists of two boxes, each of which contains a separate accretion.