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fellow-laborer, and his friendship and co-operation were warmly
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classification,-this
small floret, I say, is the first I now recollect
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Bishop, and delivered a short course of lectures on Botany.
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- ranks among the pioneers of the new era of the natural sciences
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sciences and the modern languages in the flourishing Female
Seminary a t Monticello, Ill.…
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degree of LL. D. from Union College, and Ph. D. from the Uni-
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year he was appointed repeater of mathematics and physics ;
in 1849, adjunct professor…
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September, 1872, principal assistant engineer Texas Pacific rail-
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September, 1855, he was appointed professor of geodosy and
topographical drawing in the Institute.…
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In 1873 he was appointed chief engineer of the Dansville Water
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Missouri Gazetteer,” octavo, 1823 ; “Chemistry,” 1831, For a
complete list of Dr. Beck’s writings,…
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dy and graduated with his class in 1833. In December of that
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EBENEZER EMMONS, A. M., M. D., was born a t Middlefield, Mass.,
May 1 7 , 1796. H e fitted for…
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JOHN WRIGHT, M. D., son of John and Hannah (Dawson)
Wright, was born in Troy, N. Y.,…
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and Classical School in West Newton two years, until 1874.
Was principal of Sawin…
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appeared in the following order : 1860, ‘(Descriptive Geometry;”
1861, ‘‘ Projections,” first…
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REV. N. S. S. BEMAN, D. D., LL. D., was appointed professor
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Cambrian and Lower Silurian of Murchison. (388 pages quarto,
with IOO plates, 1847.)
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VI, have been re-produced in photolithography, and with the
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Boundary survey, and others. Also numerous papers published
in scientific journals and transactions…
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ber of the Academiz Czsareae Leopoldina-Carolinie German-
icie Naturae Curiosorum. In 1882 the King…