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AMERICAN MEN OF SCIENCE 



A.A; Philos. Soc; Soc. Nat; Ass. Econ. Entom. 

 (pres, 03, 08) ; Entom. Soc. (v. pres, 10, pres, 

 12); Ecol. Soc; Soc. Prom. A^r. Sci; Wash. 

 Acad; St. Louis Acad; Soc. entom. de France. 

 Economic entomology of Illinois; food of birds, 

 fishes and insects; contagious diseases of in- 

 sects; Entoniostraca of North America; ichthy- 

 ology of Illinois; local distribution and ecology 

 of Illinois birds and fishes. 



Forbes, Dr. William T(rowbridge) M(errifield), 

 23 Trowbridge Road, Worcester, Mass. Ento- 

 mology. Westborough, Mass, 85. A.B, Amherst, 

 06; Cornell, 08-09; Ph.D, Clark, 10; Harvard, 

 10. Infstr. biol, Robert Col, Constantinople, 

 06-08; zool. and entom, Rutgers, 10-11; asst. 

 and later instr. entom, Cornell, 15- With Cor- 

 nell exped. to Asia Elinor, 07; South America, 

 20, A.A; Entom. Soc; N. Y. Entom. Soc; Cam- 

 bridge Entom. Club. Lepidoptera ; geology. 



Forbush, E(dward) H(owe), Westboro, Mass. 

 Ornithology. Quincy, Mass, April 24, 58. Wil- 

 low Park Sem; Hinman Commercial Col. Cura- 

 tor, V. pres, pres. and managing director, 

 Worcester Nat. Hist. Soc, 80-91; field director, 

 Mass. State Board Agr, 91-00, ornithologist, 

 94-, director, div. ornith, 20- State ornithol- 

 ogist, Mass, 08. Fel. Ornith. Union; Worcester 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. Economic entomology and or- 

 nithology. 



Force, Prof. John Nivison, 2704 Derby St, 

 Berkeley, Calif. Medicine. Areata, Calif, Oct. 

 2, 77. B.S, 98, M.D, 01, M.S, 10, Grad. P.H, 

 3 5. Acting asst. surgeon, TT. S. Pub. Health 

 Service, 08; surgeon, U. S. Coast Surv, 02-08; 

 assoe. prof, epidemiol, California, 11- Capt, 

 M.C, 18-19. Pub. Health Ass; Soc. Bact; 

 Am, Med. Ass. Communicable diseases; epi- 

 demiology; smallpox vaccination. 



Ford, Prof, Arthur H(illyer), Iowa City, Iowa. 

 Electrical engineering. Chicago, 111, Feb. 6, 74. 

 B.S, Wisconsin, 95, fellow, 95-97, E.E, 96; fel- 

 low, Columbia, 97-98. Acting prof. elec. eng, 

 Colorado, 00-01; prof, Ga. Tech, 01-05; Iowa, 

 05- A.A; Elec. Ehg; Eng. Educ; Ilium. Eng, 

 Soc; Iowa Eng. Soc. (sec'y, 06-10). Hystere- 

 sis in sheet iron and steel; testing alternating 

 current transformers; induction coils; automo- 

 bile headlights; power line interference with 

 telephones. 



Ford, Prof. Francis C(hipman), 229 N. Mayfield 

 Ave, Cliicago, 111. Anatomy. Niles, Mich, 

 June 26, 65. A.B, Michigan, 88, M.D, 90. Trof. 

 an<it, Nat. Med. Col, 97-00; Dunham Med. Col, 

 00-03; Hahnemann Med. Col, 06- Ass. Anat; 

 Inst. Homeop. Regional anatomj'; male and 

 female perineum ; spinal cord. 



Ford, Dr. Lester E, 16 Wendell St, Cambridge, 

 Mass. Mathematics, Life insurance. Rich Hill, 

 Mo, Oct. 29, 86. A.B, Missouri, 11, A.M, 12; 

 Harvard, 13, Ph.D, 17, traveling fellow, at Paris, 

 15-16. Lecturer math, Edinburgh, 14-15, 16- 

 17; instr. math, and life insurance, Harvard, 17. 

 Head, dept. math, F. A. Cent. Officers' Train- 

 ing Sch, 18. Math. Soc; Edinburgh Math. Soc. 

 Actuarial science; automorphic functions; math- 

 ematics for field nrtillory. 



Ford, Prof, W (alter) B(urton), University of 

 Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. *Mathematics. 



Oneonta, N. Y, May 18, 74. A.B, Harvard, 97, 

 A.M, 98, Ph.D, 05. Instr. math, Albanv Acad, 

 00-#l ; Michigan, 01-03 ; Williams, 04-05 ; prof, 

 Michigan, 05- Math. Soc. (chairman, Chicago 

 sect, 15-17); Math. Ass. C chairman, library 

 committee, 17); Soc. math, de France; Circolo 

 Mat. di Palermo. The convergence of the series 

 developments "of mathematical physics ; the 

 analytic extension of functions of a complex 

 variable; divergent series; linear difference 

 equations; calculus of residues. 



Ford, Dr. William Ebenezer, Jr, Yale Station, 

 New Haven, Conn. Mineralogy. Westville, Conn, 

 Feb. 18, 78. Ph.B, Yale, 99, Ph.D, 03. AsFt, 

 miner, Yale, 00-03, instr, 03-06, asst. prof, 06- 

 20, prof, 20- Optical Soc; Geol. Soc; Am. 

 Acad; Conn. Acad. Chemical composition and 

 crystallography of minerals. 



Ford, Dr. W(imam) W(ebber), School of Hygiene 

 and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore, Md. *B.ygiene, Bacteriology. Nor- 

 walk, Ohio, Dec. 15, 71. A.B, Western Re- 

 serve, 93; M.D, Hopkins, 98; D.P.H, McGill, 

 00, fellow, 99-01 ; research fellow. Rockefeller 

 Inst, 01-03. Instr. bacter, med. sch, HopMns, 

 03-05, assoc, 05-06, assoc. prof, bacter, and 

 hygiene and lecturer legal med, 06-17, bacter, 

 sch. hygiene and pub. health, IT- A.A; Soc, 

 Nat; Soc. Bact; Soc. Pharmacol; Ass. Path, 

 and Bact; Soc. Exp. Biol; Am. Physicians; 

 Pub. Health Ass. Diseases of the liver; intes- 

 tinal bacteria; agglutinations; classification of 

 intestinal bacteria; toxins and antitoxins; poi- 

 sonous fungi ; Amanita phalloides ; Amanita 

 muscaria; spore bearing bacteria in milk, water 

 and soil; toxins and hemotoxins of Bacterium 

 Welchii ; pollution of milk ; Rhus toxicodendron ; 

 poisonous glucosids; water supplies; sewage; 

 typhoid fever; cattle poisons, 



Fordyce, Geo(rge) L(incoln), Youngstown. Ohio. 

 Ornithology. Pub. sch. A.A; mem. Ornith. 

 Union; Audubon Soc; Wilson Ornith. Club, 

 Migration of birds in the vicinity of Youngs- 

 town, Ohio, 



de Forest, H(oward), University Club, Lawrence, 

 Kans. Botany. New York, N, Y, Nov. 2, 72. 

 B.S, Princeton, 95; M.F, Yale, 11; fellow, Chi- 

 cago, 19-20, Ph.D, 20. Field asst, U. S. Forest 

 Service, 10, forest asst, 11-12; acting asst. prof. 

 forestry, Missouri, 13; asst. prof. Kansas, 20- 

 A.A; Ecol. Soc; Forestry Ass. 



de Forest, Dr. Lee, 1391 Sedgwick Ave, New 

 York, N. Y. Eadio engineering. Ph.B, Yale, 

 96, Ph.D, 99; hon. Sc.D, Syracuse, 19. Chief 

 engineer, tech. director and v. pres, Am. de- 

 Forest Wireless Telegraph Co; pres. and gen. 

 manager, de Forest Eadio Telephone and Tele- 

 graph Co. and Lee de Forest, Inc. Gold medal. 

 La. Purcha.se Expos, 04; Panama-Pacific Expos, 

 15. Elec. Eng; Radio Eng; Franklin Inst; N. 

 Y. Elec. Soc. Radio phenomena; detectors and 

 amplifiers in radio signalling. 



Forman, Prof. A(lexander) H(ardie), West Vir- 

 ginia University, Morgantown, W. Va. Elec- 

 trical engineering. Grafton, W. Va, June 12, 

 83. B.S, M.E, West Virginia, 06, E.E, 08; fel- 

 low, Cornell, 08-09, M.M.E, 09, Ph.D, 11, In 

 research div, eng. dept, Westinghouse Elec. and 



