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H e came to this country in the late summer or early autumn
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classical teacher, fitting pupils for Harvard, etc. ; also teaches
mathematics and higher…
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boys kept by a Mr. Savory, a t Newburyport, Mass. From 1844
t o 1847 he attended the…
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partment of mineralogy and metallurgy.
In 1884, visited
Northern Europe, the fiords and glaciers of…
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THOMAS NEWTON WILLSON, A. M., son of James S. and Tirzah
(Humphreys) Willson, was born…
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(Boston,) and director of the Massachusetts Agricultural Exper-
imental Station, at Amherst, in 1883…
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road, Michigan ; in 1865-66, assistant engineer Pittsburgh, Fort
Wayne and Chicago…
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of civil engineering and applied mathematics, College of New
Jersey, Princeton, N. J., and was also…
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ical Engineers, Long Island Historical Society, and the Iron and
Steel Institute of…
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following year. H e has also delivered courses of lectures on
microscopy a t the Institute on…
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Journal, (Washington,) the Microscope, (Ann Arbor,) the MmthZy
Microscopical Joumal, (…
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was adopted in other institutions. After his resignation, he
went to Canada, and there engaged in…
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The following is a list of works written by Professor Whit-
field :
Observations…
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Description of new species of Palaeozoic fossils from Wiscon-
sin. By R. P. Whitfield, (Annual…
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Notice of a new cephalopod from the Niagara rocks of
By R. P. Whitfield, (Bulletin No…
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physics, and in 1878, professor of physics, which position he held
until his resignation in 1880.…
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professor of chemistry and natural science in 1882, and pro-
fessor of analytical…
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impression of a call to preach the gospel, this position was re-
signed. In the fall of 1870, he…
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1875, and then went abroad and spent some time as a student of
engineering in Paris,…
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with J. W. Murphy, of the class of 1848. Designed the drainage
of the city of Bergen, (now part of…
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fession in Bridgewater from 1864 to 1869, giving up the practice
on account of poor…
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JAMES R. PERCY, B. S., of Fowler’s Mills, Ohio, was born a t
Pike River, Canada East, September 18th…
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ics in the same institution. In 1872 he was elected to the chair
of civil and…
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more or less every year since. In 1855 he was granted a State
teacher’s certificate, by the State…
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laboratory, Cooper Union, New York; professor of analytical
chemistry,…