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Shidy, L(eland) P(erry), 1617 Marion St, N. W, 

 Washington, D. C. Mathematical physics. St. 

 Louis, Mo, July 27, 51. Missouri, 70-72; 

 Columbian, 85-S7. Computer, U. S. Coast and 

 Geod. Surv, 73-, chief, Tidal Div, 97- MA.A; 

 Nat. Geog. Soc; Wash. Philos. Soc. Tides and 

 tidal phenomena. 



Shimek, Prof. B(ohumil), 529 Brown St, Iowa 

 City, la. Botany. Near Shueyville, la, June 

 25, 61. C.E, Iowa, 83, M.S, 02. Instr, Iowa 

 City Acad, 83-85 ; High Sch, Iowa City, 85-88 ; 

 zool, Nebraska, 88-90; bot, Iowa, 90-96, asst. 

 prof, 96-02, prof, Col. of Pharmacy, 96-02, 

 physiol. bot, 02- Special field work, U. S. 

 Bur. Forestry, 99-03. FA. A; Soc. Nat; Bot. 

 Cent. States; Forestry Ass; Geol. Soc; Iowa 

 Acad; cor. mem. Davenport Acad; Iowa Park 

 and Forestry Ass. Ferns; liverworts; plant 

 ecology; forestry in Iowa; New Mexican desert 

 floras; the loess. Plant distribution in Iowa; 

 starch in the plant; the fauna and origin of the 

 loess; the history of xerophytes. 



Shimer, Dr. H(ervey) W(oodburn), Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. Geol- 

 ogy. Martin's Creek, Pa, April 17, 72. Gettys- 

 burg, 91-93; A.B, Lafayette, 99, A.M, 01; Ph.D, 

 Columbia, 04; Harvard, 04-05. Tutor modern 

 lang, Lafayette, 99-01 ; asst. paleont, Columbia, 

 01-03; non-res. lecturer stratig. geol, Mass. Inst. 

 Tech, 03, instr, 03- M.A.A; Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. Stratigraphy; paleontology. Old age in 

 brachiopods; stratigraphic work in central New 

 York. 



Shimer, Dr. Porter W(illiam), Paxinosa Ave, 

 Easton, Pa. * Chemistry. Shimerville, Pa, 

 March 13, 57. E.M, Lafayette, 78, Ph.D, 99. 

 Chief chemist, Thomas Iron Co, 78-79; chief 

 asst. in Chem. Lab. of Dr. Thomas M. Drown, 

 79-85; proprietor, Chem. and Metal. Lao, 85- 

 Res. lecturer on iron and steel, Lafayette, 94- 

 02. John Scott medal and premium, 01. Mem. 

 Int. Steel Standards Committee. F.A.A; Chem. 

 Soc; Min. Eng; Franklin Inst. Methods and 

 apparatus used in analytical chemistry; appli- 

 cation of chemistry to metallurgical problems; 

 discovered titanium carbid. A new system of 

 nitration in quantitative chemical analysis; 

 metallurgy. 



Shinn, Dr. M(ilicent) W(ashburn), Niles, Cal. 

 Psychology, Pedagogy. Niles, April 15, 58. 

 A.B, California, 80, Ph.D, 98. Teacher, pub. 

 schools, 75-76; ed, 'San Francisco Commercial 

 Herald,' 79-81; teacher, pub. schools, 81-82; 

 ed, ' Overland Monthly,' 83-94. Mem. Advisory 

 Council on Educ. Congresses, Columbian Expos, 

 93; chairman, Child-study Cong, Midwinter 

 Fair, San Francisco, 94. Wash. Women's 

 Anthrop. Soc. Development of the senses in 

 infancy; development of instinctive movements; 

 primary education. Development oi memory 

 and association in infancy. 



Shinn, Dr. Owen Louis, 1714 Willington St, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. Chemistry. Philadelphia, July 

 30, 71. B.S, Pennsylvania, 93, Ph.D, 96. Instr. 

 chem, Pennsylvania, 93-05, asst. prof, 05- Chem. 



Soc. Atomic weight of tungsten; some obser- 

 vations on molybdenum ; complex thiosulphates. 

 Some vanadium compounds. 



Shirrea, Prof. D(avid) A(lexander), 919 Dorches- 

 ter St, Montreal, Can. Neurology. Aberdeen, 

 Scotland, March 14, 66. M.B, Aberdeen, 87, 

 CM, M.D, 90. Asst. clin. neurologist, Royal 

 Victoria Hosp, Montreal, 00-04; prof, neur, 

 Vermont, 01-; lecturer path, McGill, 03-; con- 

 suiting neurologist, Protestant Hosp. for Insane 

 Verdun, Montreal, 03-; neurologist, Montreal 

 Gen. Hosp, OJf- Hon. surgeon, Rutland R. R. 

 Ass. Path, and Bact; Boston Soc. Psychiat. and 

 Neur; British Med. Ass. Neurology; neuro- 

 pathology; subacute degenerations of the spinal 

 cord resulting from various toxins; different 

 forms of pressure paralysis; regeneration in the 

 spinal cord of man. Vasomotor, trophic and 

 neuromuscular diseases. 



Short, Prof. R(obert) L(ouis), Urbana, Ills. 

 Mathematics. Danville, Ills, Sept. 18, 66. A.B, 

 Chaddock, 90; Illinois; Northwestern; Munich, 

 97-98. Tutor math. Wesleyan Sem, 85-87; 

 instr, Chaddock, 87-90, prof, 93-94; v. pres. 

 and prof, math, Ft. Worth, 94-97; instr, High 

 Sch, Quincy, Ills, 98-99; Illinois, 00-01, asst. 

 prof, 01- Eng. Educ. Modern geometry. 

 Classification of integrals. 



Shreve, Dr. Forrest, Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore, Md. Botany. Easton, Md, July 8, 

 78. A.B, Hopkins, 01, Ph.D, 05, Bruce fellow, 

 05-06. Instr. in charge phanerogamic bot, 

 Biol. Lab, Cold Spring Harbor, 04-05. Devel- 

 opment of Sarracenia. Transpiration and mois- 

 ture relations of vegetation in mountain forests 

 of Jamaica; a botanical survey of Maryland. 



Shufeldt, Dr. R(obert) W(ilson), 471 W. 145th St, 

 New York, N. Y. *Zoology, Biology. New 

 York, Dec. 1, 50. Cornell, 74; M.D, Colum- 

 bian, 76. Capt.'s clerk and signal officer, U. S. 

 N, 64, hydrographer, Hydrog. Office, 74; lieut, 

 Med. Dept, U. S. A, 76-81, capt, 81-04, major, 

 04, retired, 04. Hon. curator, Smithsonian Inst, 

 82-83 ; m charge, Dept. Comp. Anat, U. S. Army 

 Med. Mus, 83; assoc. zool, Smithsonian Inst; ed. 

 nat. hist, departments of several magazines and 

 journals; judge, Columbian Expos, 93. Fel. 

 Ornith. Union; N. Y. Medico-Legal Soc. (trus- 

 tee) ; cor. mem. London Zool. Soc; Soc. Ital. 

 d'Antrop, Etnol. e Psicol. comp; PAlliance 

 scientifique universelle. Anatomy of verte- 

 brates; psychological phenomena; biology; ex- 

 ploration; a classification of birds; osteology 

 of various groups of birds; studies of the 

 human form; anatomy of Vertebrata. Game 

 mammals of United States. 



Shute, Dr. D(aniel) Kerfoot, 1719 De Sales St, N 

 W, Washington, D. C. Anatomy, Ophthalmol 

 ogy. Alexandria, Va, Oct. 22, 58. A.B, Co 

 lumbian, 79. M.D, 83; Royal Ophthal. Hosp 

 London, 88-89. Prosector to chair of anat 

 George Washington, 86-87, lecturer, 87-88, prof ) 

 88- M.A.A; Ass. Anat; Am. Med. Ass; D. C 

 Med. Ass; D. C. Med. Soc; Wash. Acad; Wash 



