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AMERICAN MEN OF SCIENCE 



Weather Bur, 92-93; physicist, Smithsonian 

 Inst, 93-95; Hazard prof, physics, Brown, 95-, 

 dean, grad. dept, 03- Asst. to Prof. Kohlrausch, 

 Wiirzburg, 79-80 ; mem. council, Carnegie Insti- 

 tution, 02. Rumford medal, 00. Int. Cong:. 

 Radiol, 05, 10 (mem. comite d'honneur). Nat. 

 Acad; A. A. (v. pres, 97); Physical Soc. (pres, 



05, 06) ; Philos. Soc; Ass. Prof. (mem. council, 

 18-); Am. Acad; cor. mem. British Ass; hon. 

 mem. Royal Inst. Magnetism; iron carburets; 

 high temperatures; high pressures; thermody- 

 namics; pliysical geology; atmospheric conden- 

 sation; ionization; ionization and nuclcation of 

 gases and the atmosphere; interferometry; 

 measurement of ' g. ' 



Bascom, Dr. F(lorence), Bryn Mawr, Pa. *Geol- 

 ogy. Williamstown, Mass. A.B, B.L, Wiscon- 

 sin, 82, B.S, 84. A.M. 87; Ph.D, Hopkins, 93. 

 Instr. geol. and petrog, Ohio State, 93-95; 

 lecturer and assoc. prof, geol, Bryn Mawr, 95- 



06, prof, 06- Assoc, ed. 'Am. Creologist.' 96-: 

 geol. asst, U. S. Geol. Surv, 96-01, asst. geol- 

 ogist, 01-09, geologist, 09- A.A; Geol. Soc: 

 Min. and Metal. Soc; Seismol. Soc; Min. Eng: 

 Am. Geog. Soc; Wash. Acad; Phila. Geog. Soc; 

 Phila. Acad. Ancient lavas and the crystalline 

 schists; geology of eastern Pennsylvania; pe- 

 trography of the Neponset area, Boston basin; 

 Philadelphia and Trenton geologic folios; geo- 

 logic folio.i of the Pennsylvania Piedmont prov- 

 ince. 



Base, Dr. Daniel, 390.1 Alto Ave. Baltimore. 

 :Md. Chemistry. Baltimore, Sept. 6, 69. Grad, 

 Baltimore City Col, 88 ; A.B, Hopkins, 91, Ph.D, 

 95. Prof. chem. and plant histol, Md. Col. 

 Pharm, 95-20 ; assoc. prof, chem, Col. Physicians 

 and Surg. Baltimore, 00-04; prof. anal, chem, 

 Maryland, 04-10; chemist, Hynson, Westcoit 

 and Dunning. A.A; Chem. Soc; Pharmaceut. 

 As. 



Baskerville, Prof. Charles, College of the City of 

 New York, New York, N. Y. *Chemistry. 

 Deer Brook, Miss, June 18, 70. Mississippi, 

 86-87; Virginia, 88-90; Vanderbilt, 91; B.S, 

 North Carolina, 92, Ph.D, 94; Berlin, 93. Asst. 

 chem. North Carolina, 92, in.str, 94, asst. prof, 

 95-98, assoc. prof, 98-00, prof, and director, 

 chem. lab, 00-04; Col. City of N. Y, Oi- Asst. 

 to state geologist, N. C, 92-94; asst. chemist. 

 N. C. Geol. Surv, 94-00, chemist, 00-04. Long- 

 streth prize, Franklin Inst, 12. U. S. delegate. 

 Int. Cong. Applied Chem, London, 09 (chair- 

 man, sect. anal. chem). A.A. (sec'y, C, 98, gen. 

 sec'y, 00, v. pres, 03); Chem. Soc. (chairman, 

 N. C. and N. Y. sections) ; Electrochem. Soc. 

 (chairman, N. Y. sect); Soc. Chem. Indust; 

 Chem. Eng; Wash. Acad; N. C. Acad, (pres); 

 N. Y. Acad. (v. pros, 13); N. Y. Cliemists CIul) 

 (sec'y); fel. London Chem. Soc. Rare eartlis, 

 especially zirconium, thorium and praeseody- 

 mium; reaction of nietnls with concentrated sul- 

 f)liuric acid; universal distribution of certain 

 elements, as titanium; analysis of titaniferous 

 iron ores; existence of carolinium ; new salts of 

 rare earth; atomic weight of thorium and prae- 

 .seodymium; lanthanates, neodymates, praeseo- 

 dymates and lanth.nnalums; thorates; varial)ility 

 of preparations; injury to vegetation caused by 

 noxious gases; oil shales of Canada; ethyl ether; 



chemistry of anesthetics; wood alcohol; oil-ether 

 colonicanesthesia ; refining vegetable and animal 

 oils; recovering paper; solvents for i^hosgene; 

 oil-ethyl chlorid mixture; chlorin as preventive 

 for influenza; occupational diseases in chemical 

 industries. 



Basquin, Dr. Olin H(anson), 225 Kedzie St, 

 Evanston, 111. ^Physic6. Dows. Iowa, Jan. 30, 

 69. A.B, Ohio Wesleyan, 92 ; A.B, Harvard, 94 ; 

 A.M, Northwestern, 95, Ph.D, 01. Chief engi- 

 neer, Luxfer Prism Companies, 97-00; assoc. 

 prof, physics. Northwestern, 01-09, prof, applied 

 mechanics, 09- Eng. Educ; Soc. Automotive 

 Eng; West. Soc. Eng. Distribution of daylight; 

 arc spectrum of hydrogen; steam meter; direc- 

 tion of stress in beams; endurance tests; shear- 

 ing tests; columns under eccentric loads. 



Bass, Prof. C(harles) C(assedy), 1216 Broadway, 

 New Orleans, La. -Medicine. 0&rley, Miss. 

 Jan. 29, 75. M.D, Tulane, 99. Instr. med, 

 Tulane, 0.5-07, lab. clin. med, 07-09, director, 

 09-14, prof. exp. med, 12-, director, lab. clin. 

 and trop. med, 14- Head, Tulane exped. for 

 study of malaria, 12-; chairman, commission for 

 study of malaria, S. Med. Ass, 13. A.A; Am. 

 Med. Ass. (mem. committee on scientific re- 

 searches, 13); Am. Physicians; Soc. Baet ; Soc. 

 Trop. Med; Soc. Clin. Invest; Micros. Soc; New 

 Orleans Acad. Hookworm ; pellagra ; typhoid 

 fever; malaria; pyorrhea alveolaris; laboratory 

 methods. 



Bass, Col. Edgar W(ales), U. S. A. (retired), Bar 

 Harbor, Maine. Mathematics, Astronomy. 

 Prairie du Cliien, Wis, Oct. 30, 43. Grad, U. S. 

 Mil. Acad, 68. OfEcer, corps of engineers, 

 U.S.A, 68-78; prof, math, U. S. Mil. Acad. 78- 

 98; col, retired, 98. U. S. Vol. Army, 62-64; 

 instr. philos, U. S. Mil. Acad. 69-74, 76-78; 

 asst. astronomer, I^. S. transit of Venus exped. 

 to New Zealand, 74-75; solar eclipse exped. to 

 Colo, 78. A.A; Math. Soc; Archeol. Inst; Mil. 

 Order Loyal Legion. Trigonometry; diflFerential 

 calculus. 



Bass, Prof. Frederic (Herbert), University of 

 Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Engineering. 

 Hyde Park, Mass, June 19, 75. B.S, Mass. Inst. 

 Tech, 01. Eng. asst. Metropolitan Water Works 

 of Mass, 96-99, 01 ; ongineer and director, eng. 

 dir, Minn. State Board of Health, 06-15; prof, 

 mimic, and sanit. eng, Minnesota, 11- Consult- 

 ing engineer, League of Minn. Municipalities. 

 Civil Eng; Pub. Health Ass; Water Works Ass. 



Basset, Dr. G(ardner) C(heney), Reed College, 

 Portland, Oregon. Psychology. Boston, Mass. 

 Juno 17. 73. A.B, Clark, 11; fellow, Hopkin.s. 

 12-13, Ph.D, 13. Res. investigator, psychol. and 

 neur, sta. for exp. evolution, Carnegie Institu- 

 tion, 13-14; prof, psychol, Pittsburgh, 14-19; 

 asst. prof, Stanford, 19-20; prof, Beed, SO- 

 A.A; Psychol. Ass; Soc. Zool; Eugenics Re- 

 search .\ss. Neurology; eugenics. 



Bassett, Dr. V(ictor) H(ugo), 402 Henry St, East 

 Sav:tnnah, Ga. Pathology. Aledo, 111, May 7, 

 71. A.B, Knox, 96; M.D, Hopkins, 03, 'fel- 

 low, 04-05. Asst. chem, Wisconsin, 96-98, asst. 

 bacteriologist, Exp. Sta, 98-99; instr. bacter, 

 Northwestern, 03-04; prof. path. Wisconsin Col. 

 Physicians and Surg, 05-06; asst. prof, Mar- 

 quette. 07-08; city bacteriologist. Savannah, Ga. 



