1. Quoted in Theodore Francis Jones, ed., New York University 1832:1932 (New York: The New York University Press, London: Humphrey Milford, and Oxford University Press, 1933), pp. 35-36.
2. Ibid.; also Joan Marans Dim and Mancy Murphy Cricco, The Miracle on Washington Square: New York University (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2001), as well as the article on NYU in Wikipedia and the NYU archives website < http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/arch/ >.
3. George F. Barker, “Memoir of John William Draper 1811-1832,” National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs 2 (1886), 349-388.
4. George F. Barker, “Memoir of Henry Draper 1837-1882,” Nat. Acad. Sci. Bio. Mem. 3 (1895), 81-139.
5. F.G. Reynolds, “The Viscosity Coefficient of Air, with an Inquiry on the Effect of Röntgen Rays Thereon. II.,” Physical Review 19 (1904), 37-47. Reynolds gives his affiliation as the College of the City of New York.