Draper, John William. An American chemist, physiologist, and author. Born in England in 1811. He took his degree of M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. Became successively professor of natural sciences in Hampden-Sidney College, VA, and, in 1841, professor of chemistry in New York University, and, in 1850, of physiology. Of his numerous works we may mention "Human Physiology, Statical and Dynamical; or the Conditions and Course of the Life of Man," in 1856; and a "History of the American Civil War," in 1867-70. Died 1882.

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