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eng, Cornell, 88-91; prof. mech. eng, Iowa 

 State, 92- Managing ed, ' Iowa Eng.' F.A.A ; 

 Mech. Eng; Elec. Eng; Eng. Educ; Naval Eng; 

 Iowa Eng. Soc; Iowa Elec. Ass; West. Railway 

 Club; Int. Ass. Testing Materials. Properties 

 of lubricants ; steam-engine economics. 



Bixby, Lieut. Col. W(illiam) H(erbert), U. S. A, 



Engineer's Office, Room 510 Federal Building, 

 Chicago, Ills. Civil and military engineering. 

 Charlestown, Mass, Dec. 27, 49. Mass. Inst. 

 Tech, 66-67; grad, U. S. Mil. Acad, 73; U. S. A. 

 Postgrad. Eng. Sch, 75; Ecole des Ponts et 

 Chauss6es, 81. Asst. prof, eng, U. S. Mil. Acad, 

 75-79; U. S. engineer to attend French army 

 manceuvers, 80, and to examine and report on 

 iron fortifications in Europe, 81-82; capt, Corps 

 Engineers, U. S. A, 83-95, major, 95-04, lieut. 

 col, 0-'f- Adjt, U. S. Battalion Engineers, 83- 

 84; in charge various U. S. harbor, river, light- 

 house and fortification improvements, 84-; 

 Charleston earthquake eng. duty, 87 ; lecturer 

 coast defences, U. S. Naval War Col, 87 ; mem. 

 U. S. Boards on Long-span Suspension Bridges, 

 93; Steel and Portland Cement, 00. Chevalier 

 Legion d'honneur. F.A.A; Civil Eng; Mech. 

 Eng; Eng. Educ; Soc. Testing Materials; Na- 

 val Inst; U. S. Mil. Service Inst; Cavalry Ass; 

 Econ. Ass; Acad. Polit. and Social Sci; Nat. 

 Geog. Soc; Wash. Acad; British Ass; British 

 Inst. Civil Eng; Soc. des Ing. civile de France. 

 Graphical solutions; wind pressures; Portland 

 cement; iron for fortifications; bridges; canals; 

 river, harbor and lighthouse improvements. 

 River, canal and harbor improvements. 



Black, Dr. Homer V(an Valkenburg), 222 Wash- 

 ington St, Atlanta, Ga. Chemistry. Americus, 

 Ga, Jan. 16, 77. A.B, Georgia, 96; Ph.D, Hop- 

 kins, 00. Adj. prof, chem, Ga. Sch. Tech, 00-02, 

 junior prof, 02- M.A.A; Chem. Soc. Perman- 

 ganates of barium, strontium and calcium. 

 Cotton seed oil; analytical methods. 



Black, Otis Fisher, 10 Avon St, Cambridge, Mass. 

 Chemistry. Cambridge, March 10, 67. A.B, 

 Harvard, 91; fellow, Northwestern, 92-93, A.M, 

 93. Asst. chem, Harvard, 95-01, instr, 02- 

 Chem. Soc. Organic chemistry. Nitro deriva- 

 tives of mucobromic acid. 



Black, Lieut. Col. W(illiam) M(urray), U. S. A, 

 Engineer's Office, Portland, Me. Engineering. 

 Lancaster, Pa, Dec. 8, 55. Franklin and Mar- 

 shall, 70-73; grad, U. S. Mil. Acad, 77. Pro- 

 moted through all grades to lieut. col, Corps 

 Engineers, U. S. A, 77-; instr. practical mil. 

 eng, U. S. Mil. Acad, 82-S6; civil eng, U. S. 

 Eng. Sch, 91-95; commander, Eng. Sch. of 

 Application, 01-03. Engineer commissioner, 

 D. C, 97-98 ; lieut. col. and chief engineer, U. S. 

 Vols, Spanish -Am. War, and in charge cleaning 

 of Havana, Cuba. Rowland prize, Civil Eng, 

 93; Fry prize, U. S. Mil. Service Inst, 03. 

 Civil Eng; U. S. Mil. Service Inst; Soc. Am. 

 and For. Wars. Harbors on sandy coasts; im- 

 provements in practical military engineering 

 material and methods. Improvements in meth- 

 ods and materials of military engineering. 



Blackader, Dr. A(lexander) D(ougall), 236 Moun- 

 tain St, Montreal, Can. Medicine. Montreal, 

 June 19, 47. A.B, McGill, 70, M.D, CM, 72; 

 M.R.C.S, London, 74; Vienna, 84; Prague, 88. 

 Lecturer diseases of children, McGill, 81-, prof. 

 Pharmacol, and therapeut, 91- Assoc, ed, 

 'Montreal Med. Jour'; physician, Montreal 

 Gen. Hosp ; consulting physician, Sick Children 

 and Foundling Hosp. Am. Physicians; Pediat. 

 Soc. (pres, 93) ; Climat. Ass; Montreal Medico- 

 Chirurg. Soc. (pres, 96). Clinical medicine, 

 especially pediatrics; pharmacology. 



Blackman, Dr. M(aulsby) W(illett), Western Re- 

 serve Medical College, Cleveland, O. Zoology. 

 Lawrence, Kas, March 26, 76. A.B, Kansas, 01, 

 A.M, 02; Austin fellow, Harvard, 04-05, Ph.D, 

 05. Instr. zool. and histol, Kansas, 01-04; 

 comp. anat. and embryol, Med. Col, Western 

 Reserve, 05- Ohio Acad. Spermatogenesis of 

 Scolopendra. Spermatogenesis of Lithobius, 

 Scutigera and Geophilus. 



Blackmar, Prof. Frank W(ilson), 1115 Ohio St, 

 Lawrence, Kas. Sociology, Economics. West 

 Springfield, Pa, Nov. 3, 54. Ph.B, Pacific, 81, 

 A.M, 84; fellow, Hopkins, 88-89, Ph.D, 89. 

 Prof, math, Pacific, 82-86; instr. hist, Hopkins, 

 87-88; prof. hist, and sociol, Kansas, 89-99, 

 sociol. and econ, 99-, dean, Grad. Sch, 97- 

 F.A.A; Econ. Ass; Am. Hist. Ass; Anthrop. 

 Ass; Am. Geog. Soc; Kas. Hist. Soc; Kas. Ass. 

 Charities and Correction. Spanish-American 

 institutions; sociology; economic and social 

 problems. Economic history of the United 

 States. 



Blackwell, Dr. H(owafd) L(ane), 65 Burnet St, 

 East Orange, N. J. Physics. East Orange, 

 July 19, 76. A.B, Harvard, 99, A.M, 00, grad. 

 student, 01-05, Ph.D, 05. Eng. offices, Crocker- 

 Wheeler Co, 00-01 ; asst. physics, Harvard, 01, 

 research fellow, 05- Physical Soc; Elec. Eng. 

 Double refraction in an electrostatic field. 



Blair, Andrew A(lexander), 406 Locust St, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. *Chemistry. Woodford Co, Ky, 

 Sept. 20, 48. Grad, U. S. Naval Acad, 66. 

 Midshipman and ensign, U. S. N, 62-69; chief 

 chemist, U. S. Board to test iron, steel and 

 other metals, 75-78; Div. Mining Geol, U. S. 

 Geol. Surv, and Tenth Census, 79-81; consult- 

 ing chemist, 82- F.A.A; Chem. Soc; Soc. 

 Chem. Indust; Min. Eng; Philos. Soc. Chem- 

 ical analysis of iron and steel, ores and alloys. 

 Analysis of steel. 



Blair, Dr. Viliay Papin, Linmar Building, St. 

 Louis, Mo. Anatomy. St. Louis, 71. A.M, 

 Christian Brothers Col, 89; M.D, Washington 

 (St. Louis), 93. Instr, Med. Dept, Washington 

 (St. Louis), 94-97, demonstrator anat. and 

 lecturer osteol, 97-99, demonstrator anat. and 

 lecturer descriptive anat, 99-04, asst. prof, 

 anat, 0k~ Ass. Anat. 



Blaisdell, Dr. F(rank) E(llsworth), 1800 O'Farrell 

 St, San Francisco, Cal. Biology. Pittsfield, 

 N. H, March 13, 62. M.D, Cooper Med. Col, 

 San Francisco, 89. County entomologist, San 



