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201	Name:	Thomas Barnsley
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	10/28/1726
	Death Date:	11/11/1771

	Thomas Barnsley (c. 28 October 1726–11 November 1771) was a military officer and public officeholder, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Sheffield, England, he joined the army in young adulthood and by 1755 had become sergeant-major of the Thirtieth Regiment of Foot, then stationed in Ireland. He was then promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Royal American Regiment of Foot, a unique unit of the British army raised entirely in the colonies. Barnsely passed the next eight years in military posts along the New York and Pennsylvania frontiers. In 1758, he was wounded in a failed expedition against Fort Carillon (later renamed Ticonderoga) and was even falsely reported to have been scalped. Overall, however, his responsibilities were largely administrative: he served as regimental paymaster and deputy quartermaster general and made frequent trips to Philadelphia and New York City to coordinate supplies and settle accounts. In 1759 he purchased a captaincy, and by 1762 he was in command of Fort Pitt, where he established an impressive garden. When the fighting subsided, Barnsely chose to remain in Pennsylvania, purchasing land on Neshaminy Creek in Bensalem Township. In 1764 he was appointed a justice of the peace for Bucks County, a position he held for the rest of his life. (PI)

202	Name:	William Barnwell
	Year Elected:	1802
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

203	Name:	Dr. Teodolinda Barolini
	Institution:	Columbia University
	Year Elected:	2002
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	402b
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1951

	Teodolinda Barolini is one of the leading Dante scholars of our time, perhaps best known for her book The Undivine 'Comedy': Detheologizing Dante, which moves beyond Dante's own determination of the reader's experience to search for the poet's real narrative techniques. She was awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Modern Language Assosication and the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America for her book Dante's Poets: Textuality and Truth in the 'Comedy'. She also has a wide range of interests in Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, particularly poetry, and she is currently preparing a commentary to Dante's lyrics for the Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli. Teodolinda Barolini received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1978 and served as assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley until 1983 when she moved to New York University. In 1992, she joined the faculty of Columbia University, where she is currently the Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian. From 1992-2004 she led Columbia's Italian Department as chair and director of graduate studies, while at the same time serving as president of the Dante Society of America from 1997-2003. In 1996 she received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia. Dr. Barolini is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002.

204	Name:	Dr. James Barr
	Institution:	Vanderbilt University
	Year Elected:	1993
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1924
	Death Date:	October 14, 2006

205	Name:	Dr. Larry M. Bartels
	Institution:	Vanderbilt University
	Year Elected:	2019
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1956

	Larry M. Bartels is Professor of Political Science, May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science, and Co-director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California in 1983. He started his career at the University of Rochester, then moved to Princeton University as Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs of the Woodrow Wilson School, followed by the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs. Larry Bartels is a leading scholar of US politics, having made landmark contributions to the study of public opinion, electoral politics, public policy, and political representation. His recent books include Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age and Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (with Christopher Achen). Unequal Democracy demonstrates with great care the emergence of a partisan political pattern to the size of the gap between the rich and the poor. Republican presidents have allowed income inequality to expand, while Democratic presidents generally have not. In Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government, Bartels challenges the popular version of democracy that presumes that voting is undertaken by the omnipotent, sovereign citizens. Instead, he argues that voters tend to base their decision-making on partisan loyalties, leaving the current democratic system open to exploitation by powerful, unscrupulous actors. He has won the Gladys M. Kammerer Award in 2009 and the Warren E. Miller Prize in 2014, both from the American Political Science Association, the David O. Sears Award of the International Society of Political Psychology in 2017, and the Earl Sutherland Prize for Career Achievement in Research from Vanderbilt University in 2017. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1995), the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2010), and the National Academy of Sciences (2012). In addition to the above, he is the author of Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice (1988) and editor of (with L. Vavreck) Campaign Reform: Insights and Evidence. Larry Bartels was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.

206	Name:	Roberts Bartholow
	Year Elected:	1880
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1822
	Death Date:	5/10/04

207	Name:	W.H.C. Bartlett
	Year Elected:	1840
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	2/11/1893

208	Name:	Harley H. Bartlett
	Year Elected:	1929
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1887
	Death Date:	2/21/60

209	Name:	Dr. Paul D. Bartlett
	Institution:	Harvard University & Texas Christian University
	Year Elected:	1978
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1907
	Death Date:	10/11/97

210	Name:	Thomas Barton
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1728
	Death Date:	5/25/1780

	Thomas Barton (1728–25 May 1780) was an Anglican minister and natural historian, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Ireland and educated at the University of Dublin, Barton emigrated to a small town outside Philadelphia in 1751, moving into the city in 1752, where he taught at the Academy of Philadelphia. After two years, he went to London for Anglican ordination, returning to a small frontier congregation in Adams County, PA, a region at the heart of the imperial conflict with French-allied Indians during the Seven Years’ War (1754–63). He served as a chaplain in 1758 before finding a more lucrative position at St. James in Lancaster. He founded the Lancaster Library Company and from Thomas Penn received books, globes, a planetarium, and a telescope. There Barton nurtured his interest in natural history, sending back to Penn some of his more novel samples; Barton also nurtured an interest in astronomy, which he imparted as mentor and lifelong friend to brother-in-law and APS member David Rittenhouse. Barton further exploited his connections to support his growing family, gaining a life tenancy on a proprietary farm in 1767, among other emoluments. His complicated views on Native Americans—Barton believed in developing English civilization and commerce and had seen the effects of native warmaking, but he also aspired to the soul-saving conversion of native peoples—helps explain his otherwise infamous explanation of the Paxton massacre. Despite claiming neutrality, he was forced to close St. James in 1776, in part because he refused to abjure the king, owing to his being Head of the Church of England. In 1778 Barton sought to leave. He sold his property, but before taking flight, fell ill in 1779 and died in New York in 1780. Sons William and Benjamin Smith Barton both were APS members. (PI)

211	Name:	William Barton
	Year Elected:	1787
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

212	Name:	Benjamin Smith Barton
	Year Elected:	1789
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1766
	Death Date:	12/19/1815

213	Name:	Richard P. Barton
	Year Elected:	1792
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	1/-/1821

214	Name:	W.P.C. Barton
	Year Elected:	1813
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	2/28/1856

215	Name:	George A. Barton
	Year Elected:	1911
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1859
	Death Date:	6/28/42

216	Name:	Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton
	Institution:	California Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	1999
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1952

	Jacqueline K. Barton is the John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, Emerita at the California Institute of Technology. She earned her A.B. at Barnard College and her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry at Columbia University (1979). After a postdoctoral fellowship at Bell Laboratories and Yale University, she became an assistant professor at Hunter College, City University of New York. Soon after, she returned to Columbia University, becoming Professor of Chemistry in 1986. In the fall of 1989, she joined the faculty at Caltech, and from 2009-2019, she served as Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Professor Barton has pioneered the application of transition metal complexes to probe recognition and reactions of double helical DNA. In particular, she has carried out studies to elucidate electron transfer chemistry mediated by the DNA double helix, a basis for understanding long range DNA-mediated signaling in DNA damage, repair, and replication. Through this research, she has trained more than 100 graduate and postdoctoral students. Professor Barton has also served the chemistry community through her service on government and industrial boards. She served as a Director of the Dow Chemical Company for over twenty years and currently serves as a Director of Gilead Sciences. Professor Barton has received many awards. These include the NSF Waterman Award, the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Pure Chemistry, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and the National Academy of Sciences Award in the Chemical Sciences. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. She received the 2010 National Medal of Science from President Obama, the 2015 ACS Priestley Medal, the highest award of the ACS, and the 2023 the Welch Award in Chemistry. Jacqueline Barton was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1999 and became Vice President in 2021.

217	Name:	Isaac Bartram
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	11/17/1725
	Death Date:	6/22/1801

	Isaac Bartram (17 November 1725–c. 22 June 1801) was a chemist, apothecary, and naturalist and a member of the Young Junto, elected in 1759. Born outside Philadelphia on the farm of his father, APS founding member John Bartram, Isaac ran an apothecary shop with his half-brother and fellow Young Junto member Moses Bartram; the shop also employed renowned surgeon and APS member James Hutchinson as an apprentice. The Bartram brothers signed the 1765 Non-Importation Agreement and later parted company amicably to establish independent shops. At the meetings of the Young Junto, Isaac submitted queries concerning electricity and the creation of a more sustainable timber supply in the region. He also presented papers on botany and conducted experiments to distill liquor from persimmons as a substitute for Caribbean rum. He is credited with proposing the creation of a class of foreign elected members to increase the society’s prestige. He served on committees that oversaw the unification of the American Society and American Philosophical Society, produced the first volume of the APS Transactions, and sought to augment the Society’s collections. He was also an early manager of the Silk Society, a director of the Library Company, an elected member of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, and a contributor to the Philadelphia Dispensary and Pennsylvania Hospital. In addition to his father and his brother Moses, another half-brother, William Bartram, was a member of the American Society. (PI)

218	Name:	John Bartram
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1701
	Death Date:	9/22/1777

	John Bartram (23 May 1699–22 September 1777) was a botanist, horticulturist, explorer, and early ethnographer, and a founding member of the American Philosophical Society, both in its original and revived forms. Born into a Quaker family in Marple, Pennsylvania, Bartram had little formal education, yet he attained international renown for his contributions to the study of American plants. Bartram’s career received encouragement from James Logan, who provided early training, from Benjamin Franklin, who secured him free access to the collections of the Library Company, and from his long-term correspondent Peter Collinson, a London-based Royal Society fellow who provided introductions to the era’s most prominent scientists. Through Collinson, Bartram became a paid collector of plant specimens and seeds—as well as fossils, reptiles, insects, birds, mammals, and indigenous artifacts—for English naturalists. This financial support allowed him to conduct more extensive collecting trips that took him from New York, Ohio, and Canada to Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Collinson also facilitated the publication of a number of Bartram’s letters in the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions as well as his Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters (1751). In 1765, Bartram was named botanist to the king. He was famous for the eight-acre garden he built on his farmlands on the banks of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River. Containing rare plants collected during his excursions, it is often cited as the first botanical garden in North America. His proposal to Franklin concerning an ambitious survey of the American West seems to have inspired Thomas Jefferson’s instructions to Lewis and Clark. His sons William, Isaac, and Moses Bartram were APS members. (PI, ANB, DNB, DAB)

219	Name:	Moses Bartram
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	8/25/1732
	Death Date:	12/25/1809

	Moses Bartram (25 August 1732–25 December 1809) was an apothecary and naturalist and a member of the Young Junto, elected c. 1766. The son of founding APS member John Bartram, he was born on the family farm at Kingsessing near Philadelphia. After taking to sea as a common sailor in 1751, he found himself stranded in London where his father’s correspondent and Royal Society Fellow Peter Collinson paid his passage back to Philadelphia. Following a voyage to the Mediterranean, he settled down to run an apothecary shop with his half-brother and fellow Young Junto member Isaac Bartram. At the meetings of Young Junto—renamed the American Society shortly after his election—he submitted queries on somnambulism, on the influence of lakes on adjacent climates, and on the Mediterranean’s salinity and currents. He continued to correspond with Collinson, informing him about the experiments he conducted with an American species of locust. He also presented an influential paper on silkworm cultivation to the American Society that informed the creation of the Silk Society (of which he became a manager). When the American Society and American Philosophical Society united in 1769, he served on the former’s unification committee. During the American Revolution, Bartram held bureaucratic and active service roles. In 1776, he was disowned by his local Friend’s Meeting for this affront to Quaker pacifism and played an active role thereafter in founding a new meeting, the Society of Free Quakers, with other disowned Friends. He was also a member of the Humane Society and the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, a donor to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and a street commissioner. In addition to his father and half-brother Isaac, his brother William Bartram was also a member of the American Society. (PI)

220	Name:	William Bartram
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	4/9/1739
	Death Date:	7/22/1823

	William Bartram (9 April 1739–22 July 1823) was a planter, botanist, and illustrator, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born outside Philadelphia to founding member John Bartram, William had by nineteen published naturalist sketches in Britain. Despite efforts his father’s urging into medicine or commerce, William’s dab hand and early success at naturalist illustration, combined with a 1765 tour of Florida with his father, rendered the young man a lover of the natural world. Despite his father’s pleas to take up profitable employ, William gathered around him a few patrons and set out on a four year adventure through the southern colonies in 1773. Putting his journals into form took the better part of a decade; during the same he planted a well-visited experimental garden concerned more with uniquity than beauty. His 1791 publication was a pathbreaking work of exploration and naturalism, blurring poetic romanticism, breathless travelogue, and scientific observations, all finely illustrated. It was his magnum opus: excepting his illustrating the majority of plates for fellow APS member Benjamin Smith Barton’s Elements of Botany (1803), Bartram produced only a few short works of observation and otherwise retired to his garden for his final decades. He died a man of little wealth in 1823. Brother Moses Bartram and half-brother Isaac Bartram were both APS members. (PI)

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