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ington (St. Louis), 98-02; prof, Stoarthmore, 

 02- M.A.A; Chem. Soc; Soc. Chem. Indust; 

 Chem. Gesell. Diazo-compounds ; chemistry of 

 Portland cements; action of chemicals on wood 

 fiber. Action of chemicals on wood fiber; 

 phenol ethers; relative efficiency of antiseptics 

 towards various organisms. 



Allen, Dr. B(ennet) M(ills), Science Hall, Madison, 

 Wis. Embryology. Greencastle, Ind, July 4, 

 77. Ph.B, De Pauw, 98; Cornell, 99; Ph.D, 

 Chicago, 03. Instr. anat, Wisconsin, 03- 

 M.A.A; Soc. Nat; Ass. Anat. Embryonic de- 

 velopment of ovary and testis of the mammals; 

 anatomy of Hirudo; eye of Bdellostoma. Em- 

 bryonic development of ovary and testis of the 

 turtle. 



Allen, Prof. C(alvin) Frank (Francis), Montview 

 St, West Roxbury, Mass. Engineering. Rox- 

 bury, Mass, July 10, 51. B.S, Mass. Inst. Tech, 

 72. Civil engineer, Water Works and Sewerage, 

 72-78; railroad engineer, 79-85; attorney-at- 

 law, 85-86; asst. prof, later assoc. prof, and 

 prof, railroad eng, Mass. Inst. Tech, 87- Civil 

 Eng; Eng. Educ. (sec'y and pres.) ; Am. R. R. 

 Eng. and Maintenance of Way Ass; Statist. 

 Ass; Mass. Highway Ass, (pres.) ; Boston Soc. 

 Civil Eng. (pres, 99-00). Railroad engineer- 

 ing. 



Allen, Prof. Charles E(lmer), 810 W. Johnson St, 

 Madison, Wis. Botany. Horicon, Wis, Oct. 4, 

 72. B.S, Wisconsin, 99, Ph.D, 04. Instr. lot, 

 Wisconsin, 01-04, asst. prof, 0k~ Research asst, 

 Carnegie Inst, 04-05. Nat. Cent, States; Bot. 

 Cent. States. Middle lamella in thickened cell 

 walls; spindle formation in pollen-mother-cells 

 of larch; nuclear division and chromosome re- 

 duction in pollen-mother-cells of lily. Germina- 

 tion of egg and chromosome reduction in Coleo- 

 chsete; chromosome reduction in Rhodophyceae. 



Allen, Prof. Charles M(etcalf), 8 Dean St, Wor- 

 cester, Mass. Mechanical engineering. Walpole, 

 Mass, Dec. 12, 71. B.S, Worcester, 94, M.S, 99. 

 Asst. mech. eng, Worcester, 95-97, instr. hydraul. 

 and lab. work, 97-02, asst. prof. exp. eng, 02- 

 M.A.A; Mech. Eng; Eng. Educ; assoc. Civil Eng. 

 Absorption dynamometers; application of the 

 steam-engine indicator to rowing. Absorption 

 dynamometers of large powers; water-wheel 

 flow recorders for wheels under variable heads 

 and with variable gate openings. 



Allen, Charles R(icketson), New Bedford, Mass. 

 Chemistry, Education, Physics. New Bedford, 

 Aug. 6, 62. B.S, Mass. Inst. Tech, 85; A.M, 

 Harvard, 02. Senior teacher science, High Sch, 

 New Bedford, 86- Asst. gen. chem, Mass. Inst. 

 Tech, 86; private asst. to Prof. Wolcott Gibbs, 

 Harvard, 86. Chem. Soc; Eastern Ass. Phys- 

 ics Teachers; New Eng. Ass. Chem. Teachers. 

 Nitrogen in sewage; dissociation of acetylene. 

 Education. 



Allen, Dr. E(dwin) W(est), 1725 Riggs Place, 

 Washington, D. C. Agriculture, Agricultural 

 chemistry. Amherst, Mass, Oct. 28, 64. B.S, 

 Mass. Agr. Col, 85; Ph.D, Gottingen, 90. Asst. 

 chemist, Mass. Agr. Exp. Sta, 85-88 ; asst, Office 



of Exp. Stations, U. S. Dept. Agr, 90-93, asst. 

 director, 93- Ed, 'Exp. Sta. Record,' 95- 

 M.A.A; Chem. Soc; Chem. Gesell. Chemistry 

 of carbohydrates; organization and work of 

 agricultural experiment stations of the world. 



Allen, Dr. E(ugene) T(homas), 1348 Roanoke St, 

 Washington, D. C. *Chemistry. Athol, Mass, 

 April 2, 64. A.B, Amherst, 87 ; Ph.D, Hopkins, 

 92 ; Harvard, 93-95. Assoc, chem, Woman's Col. 

 of Baltimore, 90-91 ; acting prof, Colorado, 92- 

 93; prof, Sch. of Mines, Missouri, 95-00; chem. 

 geologist, U. S. Geol. Surv, 00- Instr, Summer 

 Sch, Harvard, 93-94. Chem. Soc. Inorganic 

 chemistry. Application of weak bases, espe- 

 cially phenyl hydrazin, to chemical analysis; 

 rock magmas. 



Allen, Dr. Frank, University of Manitoba, Winni- 

 peg, Can. Experimental physics. Canterbury, 

 N. B, Feb. 6, 74. A.B, New Brunswick, 95: 

 A.M, Cornell, 00, Ph.D, 02. Principal, High 

 Sch, Moncton, N. B, 95-99; instr. physics, Cor- 

 nell, 01-04; prof, Manitoba, 0k- F.A.A; Phys- 

 ical Soc. Color vision; efficiency of liquid air 

 production; electrostriction. Color vision; alu- 

 minum cell. 

 - Allen, Dr. J(oel) A(saph), American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York, N. Y. * Vertebrate 

 zoology. Springfield, Mass, July 19, 38. Law- 

 rence Sci. Sch, Harvard, 62-67, Humboldt 

 scholar, 71. Asst. ornith, Mus. Comp. Zool, 

 Harvard, 71-85; curator mammalogy and 

 ornith, Am. Mtis. Nat. Hist, 85- Chief, Sci- 

 entific Staff of Govt. Exped, North. Pacific R. 

 R. Surv, 73 ; special collaborator, U. S. Geol. 

 and Geog. Surv. (Hayden), 78-83; ed, 'Bui. 

 Nuttall Ornith. Club,' 76-83; 'The Auk,' 84-; 

 ' Bulletin ' and ' Memoirs,' Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, 

 87- Hon. Ph.D, Indiana, 86. Nat. Acad; Soc. 

 Nat; fel. Ornith. Union (pres, 83-91); Geog. 

 Ass; Philos. Soc; Am. Acad; fel. N. Y. Acad, 

 (v. pres, 92-93) ; Wash. Acad; for. mem. Brit- 

 ish Ornith. Union; for. mem. London Zool. Soc; 

 etc. American mammals and birds; geograph- 

 ical zoology. North American Rodentia and 

 Pinnipedia; mammals of Patagonia; mammals 

 and birds of northeastern Siberia and of Colom- 

 bia; the genus Didelphys. 

 Allen, Prof. John R(obins), 226 S. Ingalls St, Ann 

 Arbor, Mich. Mechanical engineering. Mil- 

 waukee, Wis, July 23, 69. B.S, Michigan, 92, 

 M.E, 96. Sec'y, L. K. Comstock Construction 

 Co, 93-95; instr. mech. eng, Michigan, 96-99, 

 asst. prof, 99-02, junior prof, 02- Consulting 

 engineer, Detroit. M.A.A; Mech. Eng; Detroit 

 Eng. Soc. Heating and ventilation. Manufac- 

 ture of peat into a fuel. 

 Allen, Joseph, 162 E. 79th St, New York, N. Y. 

 Mathematics. New Bedford, Mass, March 21, 

 70. A.B, A.M, Harvard, 92, grad. student, 92- 

 94. Instr. math, Cornell, 94-97; Col. City of 

 N. Y, 97- Math. Soc. Analytical geometry. 

 Allen, Kenneth, Water Department, Atlantic City, 

 N. J. Hydraulic and sanitary engineering. 

 New Bedford, Mass, April 6, 57. C.E, Rensse- 

 laer, 79. Consulting engineer, 85-89; city 



