born at Carskeoch, Ayrshire, was President of Princeton University from 1868 to 1888, and was the author of many works on philosophy.  John Fries Frazer (1812-72), Vice-Provost of the University of Pennsylvania (1858-68), was of Scottish ancestry.  Louis Agassiz described him as “the first of American physicists of his time.”  James Sidney Rollins (1812-88), of Ulster Scot origin, for his efforts on behalf of education in his state was declared by the Curators of the University of Missouri to have won the honorable title of “Pater Universitatis Missouriensis.”  Daniel Kirkwood (1814-95), mathematician and educator, grandson of Robert Kirkwood who came from Scotland c. 1731, was Professor of Mathematics at Indiana University (1856-86).  David Chassel, “of Scotch descent and Scotch characteristics,” was tutor to Professor James Hadley, America’s greatest Greek scholar.  Joshua Hall McIlvaine (1815-97), a distinguished comparative philologist, was President of Evelyn College, Princeton.  Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905), the “Nestor of elocutionary science,” inventor of the method of phonetic notation of “visible speech,” was born in Edinburgh.  Alexander Martin (1822-93), sixth President of De Pauw University, was born in Nairn, Scotland.  John Fraser (c. 1823-1878), second Chancellor of the University of Arkansas, was born in Cromarty, Scotland.  Malcolm MacVicar, born in Argyllshire in 1829, was famous as an educator, writer of text-books, and inventor of many devices to illustrate principles in arithmetic, astronomy and geography.  John Maclean (1798-1886), tenth President of Princeton University, was of Scottish parentage.  Matthew Henry Buckham (b. 1832), eleventh President of the University of Vermont, was born in England of Scottish parentage.  James Kennedy Patterson (b. 1833), first President of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky (1880-1901), was born in Glasgow.  David French Boyd (1834-99), second President of Louisiana State University, and his brother, Thomas Duckett Boyd, also a University President, were descended from John Boyd of Ayrshire, who emigrated to Maryland in 1633.  William Henry Scott (b. 1840), third President of Ohio State University and Professor of Philosophy there, was of Scottish ancestry.  Neil Gilmour, born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1840, was Superintendent of Public Instruction of New York State; and James MacAlister (1840-1913), born in Glasgow, was the first Superintendent of Schools in Philadelphia, where he introduced many reforms, notably in the Kindergarten and in co-ordination of teaching.  In 1891 he became President of the Drexel Institute and was also author of several works on education.  Thomas Davidson (1840-1900), philosopher, educator, and author, was born at Deer, Aberdeenshire.  John McLaren McBride (b. 1846), of Scottish parentage, was President of the University of South Carolina.  Gustavus Richard Glenn (b. 1848) descended from Nicholas Glenn, an emigrant from Scotland, filled several important