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Chief, Forestry Div, U. S. Dept. Agr, 86-98; 

 director, N. Y. State Col. Forestry, 98-03. 

 Hon. curator, Nat. Mus, 87-; mem. Jury of 

 Awards, Columbian Expos, 93; chief, Forestry 

 Dept, Atlanta Expos, 95; mem. Jury of Awards, 

 Pan- Am. Expos, 01; La. Purchase Expos, 04. 

 LL.D, Wisconsin, 96; Queen's (Can.), 03. 

 F.A.A. (sec'y, F, 88, I, 90, 91, v. pres, 95); 

 Forestry Ass. (v. pres, 98-04) ; Soc. Prom. Agr. 

 Sci; life mem. Min. Eng; Ass. Protection of 

 Adirondacks; British Arboric Soc; hon. mem. 

 St. Petersburg Acad; etc. Forestry; timber 

 physics; economics; forest meteorology. 



Ferrin, Pres. W(illiam) N(elson), Forest Grove, 

 Ore. Mathematics. Barton, Vt, Oct. 11, 54. 

 A.B, Vermont, 75, A.M, 78. Instr. math, 

 Pacific, 77-81, Vermont prof, 81-, dean, Acad. 

 Faculty, 00-03, pres, 03- Hon. LL.D, Vermont, 

 02. Math. Soc. 



Ferris, Dr. H(arry) B(urr), 118 York St, New 

 Haven, Conn. Anatomy, Histology, Embry- 

 ology. Old Greenwich, Conn, May 21, 65. A.B, 

 Yale, 87, M.D, 90. Instr. anat, Med. Dept, 

 Yale, 92-94, asst. prof, 94-96, prof, 96- Col- 

 laborator, 'Am. Jour. Anat.' Soc. Nat; Ass. 

 Anat; Soc. Zool; Micros. Soc; Conn. Acad; 

 Conn. Med. Soc; New Haven City and Co. Med. 

 Societies. Mitosis in cancer. Double optic 

 atrophy, tracing of optic tracts; early forma- 

 tion of the Wolffian duct in the chick. 



Ferry, Prof. E(rvin) S(idney), 622 Ferry St, La- 

 fayette, Ind. Physics. Croydon, N. H, June 

 14, 68. B.S, Cornell, 89, grad. student, 91-93; 

 Hopkins, 93-94; Upsala, 97-98. Prof. nat. 

 science, Kalamazoo, 89-91; instr. physics, Wis- 

 consin, 95-99; prof, Purdue, 99- Physical Soc; 

 Astron. and Astrophys. Soc; Electrochem. Soc. 

 Radiation; physiological optics; specific induc- 

 tive capacity. Electrochemistry. 



Ferry, Prof. Frederick C(arlos), Williamstown, 

 Mass. Mathematics. Braintree, Vt, Jan. 22, 

 68. A.B, Williams, 91, A.M, 94; A.M, Har- 

 vard, 95; Ph.D, Clark, 98; Christiania, 98-99. 

 Instr. math, and classics, Williams, 91-94, asst. 

 prof, math, 99-02, prof, 02-, dean of Faculty, 

 02-03, dean of Col, 03- Math. Soc. Geometry; 

 the special geometries of particular surfaces. 

 Geometry on the crunodal cubic cone and on 

 the cubic scroll of the first kind and of the 

 second kind. 



Fessenden, Prof. R(eginald) A(ubrey), National 

 Electric Light Company, Eighth and Water Sts, 

 Washington, D. C. *Physics, Engineering. 

 Milton, Que, Oct. 6, 66. Bishop's Col, Que. 

 Principal, Whitney Inst, Bermuda, 85-86; in- 

 specting engineer, Edison Machine Works, 86- 

 87; head chemist, Edison Lab, 87-90; electri- 

 cian, Westinghouse Elec. and Mfg. Co, 90- 

 91 ; prof. elec. eng, Purdue, 92-93 ; elec. eng. and 

 postgrad, math, Western Univ. of Pa, 93-00; 

 special agent, U. 8. Weather Bur, 00- Chemist, 

 Stanley Elec. Co, 92-93. F.A.A. (sec'y, B, 

 00) ; Elec. Eng; Nat. Geog. Soc; Soc. Prom. 

 Quaternions; West. Pa. Soc. Eng. (sec'y) ; 

 Wash. Philos. Soc; British Ass. Electrical 



theory of matter; nature of electricity and mag- 

 netism; nature of gravitation and inertia; hys- 

 teresis in social, moral and economic functions; 

 design of electrical machines, instruments and 

 methods; development of qualitative mathe- 

 matics; electric radiation; magnetism; electro- 

 magnetic rotation of light. Velocity of light in 

 electrostatic field ; wireless telegraphy ; economic 

 hysteresis as applied to tariff schedules. 



Fewkes, Dr. J (esse) Walter, Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, Washington, D. C. *Ethnology. 

 Newton, Mass, Nov. 14, 50. A.B, Harvard, 75, 

 A.M, Ph.D, 77; Leipzig, 78-80. Asst, Mus. 

 Comp. Zool, Harvard, 81-89; ed, 'Jour, of 

 Ethnol. and Archeol,' 90-94; ethnologist, Bur. 

 Am. Ethnol, 95- F.A.A; Soc. Nat; Folk-lore 

 Soc; fel. Am. Acad; Wash. Anthrop. Soc; 

 Anthrop. Gesell. American archeology and 

 ethnology. 



Fiebeger, Col. G(ustave) J(oseph), West Point, 

 N. Y. Engineering. Akron, 0, May 9, 58. 

 Grad, U. S. Mil. Acad, 79, Eng. Sch. of Applica- 

 tion, 79-82. Officer, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A. 

 79-96; instr. and later asst. prof, eng, U. 8. 

 Mil. Acad, 83-88, prof, 96- Mem. Board of 

 Trustees, Thayer Eng. Sch, Dartmouth. Civil 

 Eng. 



Field, Dr. Cyrus W(est), 1190 Madison Ave, New 

 York, N. Y. Pathology, Bacteriology. New 

 York, April 27, 78. M.D, Yale, 00. Asst, Path. 

 Lab, Presbyterian Hosp, N. Y. City, 00-03; 

 bacteriologist, Research Lab, Dept. Health, N. Y. 

 City, 03-; prof, path, Fordham, 05- Tutor path, 

 Columbia, 02. Ass. Path, and Bact; Soc. Exp. 

 Biol, and Med ; N. Y. Path. Soc. Tetanus toxin ; 

 etiology of scarlet fever and measles; typhoid 

 infection from oysters. 



Field, Dr. George W(ilton), Sharon, Mass. *Biol- 

 ogy. North Bridgewater, Mass, Sept. 29, 63. 

 A.B, Brown, 87, A.M, 90; Ph.D, Hopkins, 92; 

 Smithsonian Table, Naples Zool. Sta. and 

 Munich, 92-93. Asst. biol, Hopkins, 91-92; 

 assoc. prof, cellular biol, Brown, 93-96; biol- 

 ogist, R. I. Agr. Exp. Sta, 96-01; instr. econ. 

 biol, Mass. Inst. Tech, and director, Sharon Biol. 

 Observatory, 01 ; biologist, Mass. Commission 

 on Fisheries and Game, 03, chairman, 0^~ 

 M.A.A; Soc. Nat; Soc. Zool; Mass. Audubon 

 Soc. (director) ; British Ass. Morphology and 

 physiology of echinoderms; planktology; biol- 

 ogy of birds. Factors which determine sex and 

 the secondary sex characteristics; removal of 

 the odors and tastes in drinking water due to 

 the presence of micro-organisms; biology of 

 edible fish and shell-fish. 



Field, Dr. Herbert Haviland, Kolliker Str. 9, 

 Zurich, Switzerland. Zoology, Anatomy. 

 Brooklyn, April 25, 68. Brooklvn Polytech, 

 82-86; A.B, Harvard, 88, A.M, 90, Ph.D, 91; 

 Freiburg, 91-92; Leipzig, 92-93; Paris, 93-95. 

 Director, Concilium Bibliographiciim, 95- Hon. 

 asst. zool, Univ. Mus, Harvard, 02- Library 

 Ass; Zool. Gesell; Anat. Gesell; Soc. zool. de 

 France; Schweiz. Nat. Gesell; hon. mem. 

 Leipzig Nat. Gesell; Zurich Nat. Gesell. De- 



