318 



AMERICAN MEN OF SCIENCE 



Collaborator, ' Am. Jour. Anat.' Bronze medal, 

 Edinburgh, 98. M.A.A; Ass. Anat; Mo. Audu- 

 bon Soc; St. Louis Acad; St. Louis Biol. Club; 

 St Louis Med. Sci. Club. Section cutting of 

 decalcified human bodies; dissecting room rec- 

 ords for study of variations; preservation of 

 material. Cranium; structure and posture. 



Tesla, Dr. Nikola, 55 W. 27th St, New York, N. Y. 

 * Electrical engineering. Smiljan, Austria, 

 57. Polytech, Gratz; Prague and Budapest. 

 Electrical engineer and inventor. Hon. A.M, 

 Yale; LL.D, Columbia. F.A.A; Elec. Eng; 

 Philos. Soc. Electricity; electric oscillations. 



Test, Prof. W(illiam) H(enry), 716 Brown St, 

 Lafayette, Ind. Chemistry. Richmond, Ind, 

 Feb. 1, 71. B.S, Purdue, 92, M.S, 93. Asst. 

 chem, Purdue, 93-95, instr, 95-01, asst. prof, 

 01- Chem. Soc; Soc. Chem. Indust. Sugars; 

 water; fuels. Valuation of fuels. 



Thacher, Dr. John S(eymour), 839 Madison Ave, 

 New York, N. Y. Pathology, Medicine. New 

 Haven, Conn, June 10, 56. A.B, Yale, 77; 

 M.D, Columbia, 80. Pathologist, Presbyterian 

 Hosp, N. Y, 89-, attending physician, OS-; 

 demonstrator path, Columbia, 96-03, prof. clin. 

 med, 03- Am. Physicians; N. Y. Path. Soc; 

 N. Y. Acad. Med; N. Y. Co. Med. Soc; N. 

 Y. Clin. Soc. Pathology; clinical medicine. 



Thaler, Prof. J(oseph) A(uken), Bozeman, Mont. 

 Electrical engineering. Koessen, Austria, Sept. 

 29, 63. E.E, Minnesota, 00. Instr. math, Min- 

 nesota, 00-01; asst. prof. mech. eng, Mont. 

 Col. Agr. and Mech. Arts, 01-02; instr. mech, 

 Purdue, 02-03; prof. elec. eng, Mont. Col. Agr. 

 and Mech. Arts, 03- Elec. Eng; Eng. Educ; 

 Nat. Elec. Light Ass; Nat. Educ. Ass; Mont. 

 Eng. Soc. Effects of magnetism on the prop- 

 erties of iron and steel. 



Thatcher, R(oscoe) W(ilfred), Pullman, Wash. 

 Agricultural chemistry. Chatham Center, O, 

 Oct. 5, 72. B.S, Nebraska, 98, A.M, 01. Instr. 

 science, High Sch, Beatrice, Nebr, 99-00; asst. 

 chemist, Nebr. Agr. Exp. Sta, 00-02; chemist, 

 Wash. Agr. Exp. Sta, 02- Chem. Soc. A 

 rapid method for the estimation of sugar in 

 beets; the indirect weighing of quantitative pre- 

 cipitates; the enzymes of fruits; lime-sulphur 

 compounds. Wheat and flour investigations. 



Thaxter, Prof. Roland, 7 Scott St, Cambridge, 

 Mass. *Botany. Newton, Mass, Aug, 28, 58. 

 A.B, Harvard, 82, A.M. Ph.D, 88. Mycologist, 

 Conn. Agr. Exp. Sta, 88-91, asst. prof, crypt, 

 bot, Harvard, 91-01, prof, 01- F.A.A; Soc. 

 Nat; Soc. Plant Morph. and Physiol; Mycol. 

 Soc; Am. Acad; New Eng. Bot. Club; Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist; Bot. Gesell. Thallophytes ; 

 fungi; fungous parasites of insects. Laboul- 

 beniaceae. 



Thayer, Abbott H(anderson), Monadnock, N. H. 

 Painting. Boston, Mass, ,Aug. 12, 49. Chaun- 

 cey Hall Sch, Boston; Ecole des Beaux Arts, 

 Paris, 75-79. Artist, 79- Soc. Am. Artists 

 (pres. two years) ; Nat. Acad. Design; Insigne 

 Reale Romana Delle Belle Arti Denominata Di 



San Luca. Protective coloration of the animal 

 kingdom. 



Thayer, Dr. W(illiam) S(ydney), 406 Cathedral 

 St, Baltimore, Md. * Medicine. Milton, Mass, 

 June 23, 64. A.B, Harvard, 85, M.D, 89; Berlin 

 and Vienna, 89-90. Res. physician, Hopkins 

 Hosp, 91-98, assoc. med, Hopkins, 95, assoc. 

 prof, 96-05, prof. clin. med, 05-, assoc, Hop- 

 kins Hosp, 99-05, assoc. physician, 05- Twelfth 

 Int. Med. Cong, Moscow (hon. pres.). F.A.A; 

 Am. Physicians; Ass. Path, and Bact; Am. Med. 

 Ass; Md. Med. and Chirurg. Faculty; Wash. 

 Acad; hon. mem. Moscow Therapeut. Soc. Par- 

 asites and etiology of malaria; the blood in 

 different pathological conditions; the blood in 

 typhoid fever. Cardiac and vascular complica- 

 tions of typhoid fever; cardiac complications of 

 chorea. 



Thilly, Prof. Frank, Princeton, N. J. Philos- 

 ophy. Cincinnati, O, Aug. 18, 65. A.B, Cin- 

 cinnati, 87; Berlin, 87-89; Ph.D, Heidelberg, 

 91; fellow, Cornell, 91-92. Instr. philos, Cor- 

 nell, 92-93; prof, Missouri, 93-04; Princeton, 

 Oh- Asst, 'Philos. Rev,' and managing ed, 

 'School Rev,' 92-93. Philos. Ass; Psychol. 

 Ass; West. Philos. Ass. (pres, 00-02). His- 

 tory of philosophy; ethics; logic; metaphysics. 



Thorn, Dr. Charles, Storrs, Conn. Botany. Mi- 

 nonk, Ills, Nov. 11, 72. A.B, Lake Forest, 95, 

 A.M, 97; Ph.D, Missouri, 99. Instr. biol, 

 Missouri, 97-99, bot, 99-01, asst. prof, 01-02; 

 asst, Cornell, 02-04; cheese expert (mycologist) , 

 U. S. Dept. Agr, 0k~ F.A.A. Fertilization of 

 Aspidium; cell problems in some of the arche- 

 goniates; comparative morphology in some Hy- 

 menomycetes. Relations of molds to cheese 

 ripening. 

 Thomas, -Prof. B(enjamin) F(ranklin), University 

 Grounds, Columbus, O. * Physics. Palmyra, 

 O, Oct. 14, 50. B.S, Ripon, 74, M.S, 77; Ph.D, 

 Stevens, 80. Instr. math, and physics, Carle- 

 ton, 76-79; research asst, Stevens, 79-80; prof, 

 physics, Missouri, 80-85; Ohio State, 85- Mem. 

 Board of Exam, Int. Elec. Exhib, Phila, 84; 

 Jury Awards, Dept. Elec, Columbian Expos, 93. 

 F.A.A. (sec'y, B, 85, v. pres, 92) ; Physical Soc; 

 Elec. Eng. Rapidly varying phenomena in elec- 

 tric circuits; photometric standards; photom- 

 etry of arc and incandescent lights. Photo- 

 metric standards. 

 Thomas, Dr. Cyrus, Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 Washington. D. C. *Ethnology, Entomology. 

 Kingsport, Tenn, July 27, 25. Acad, and pub. 

 and private schools. Practised law till 65; 

 county clerk, Jackson Co, Ills, 50-53 ; minister, 

 Evang. Lutheran Church, 65-69; asst, U. S. 

 Geol. and Geog. Surveys of Territories (Hay- 

 den), 69-73; prof. nat. science, S. Ills. Nor. 

 Univ, 73-75; state entomologist, Ills, 74-75; 

 mem. TJ. S. Entom. Commission, 77-79 ; archeol- 

 ogist, Bur. Am. Ethnol, 82- Hon. Ph.D, Gettys- 

 burg. Acrididae of North America; noxious 

 and beneficial insects of Illinois ; mounds ; Maya 

 inscriptions and codices; the Cherokees and 

 Shawnees in prehistoric times; prehistoric 



