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Richmond, Utah, April 6, 84. B.S, Utah Col, 05 ; 

 Cornell, 10-11; M.S, Chicago, 12; A.M, Har- 

 vard, 13; Ph.D, Washington (St. Louis), 15. 

 Teacher nat. science, high sch, Springville, Utah, 

 05-06; agr. inspector. Bur. Agr, P. I, 06-08, 

 supt, Exp. Sta, 08-10; asst. Mo. Bot. Garden, 

 13-15; director, dept. agr, Idaho Tech. Inst, 15- 

 17; prof, hort, Utah Col, 17- A.A; Soc. Hort. 

 Sci; Phytopath. Soc; Utah Acad. Distilled 

 Avater and growing plants; exosinosis from plant 

 tissues; tomato breeding; canning crops. 



Merrill, O(scar) C(harles), Federal Power Commis- 

 sion, Washington, D. C. Civil engineering. Man- 

 chester, Maine, July 30, 74. A.B, Bates, 99; 

 B.S, Mass. Inst. Tech, 05. Instr. civil eng, Cali- 

 fornia, 05-06; water power investigator. Wash, 

 Oregon and Calif, 06-08; dist. engineer, U. S. 

 Forest Service, 09-12, chief engineer, 12- 

 20 ; executive sec 'y, Fed. Power Commission, 20- 

 Chairman, hoard of surveys and maps, Fed. 

 Govt, 20- Civil Eng; Wash. Acad; Wash. Soc. 

 Eng. (director, 19-). Water powers. 



Merrill, Dr. Paul W(illard), Mt. Wilson Observa- 

 tory, Pasadena, Calif. *Astronomy. Minne- 

 apolis, Minn, Aug. 15, 87. A.B, Stanford, 08; 

 Ph.D, California, 13. Asst. and fellow, Lick Ob- 

 servatory, 09-13; instr. astron, Michigan, 13- 

 16; asst. physicist and assoc physicist, Bur. 

 Standards, 16-18; mem. staff, Mt. Wilson Ob- 

 servatory, Carnegie Institution, J9- A.A; 

 Astron. Soc; Physical Soc; Pacific Astron. Soc. 

 Wave-lengths of spectrum lines; stellar spectro- 

 scopy. 



Merriman, Mansfield, 1071 Madison Ave, New 

 York, N. Y. *Civil engineering. Mechanics. 

 Southington, Conn, March 27, 48. Ph.B, Yale, 

 71, C.E, 72, Ph.D, 76; hon. Sc.D, Pennsylvania, 

 06 ; LL!D, Lehigh, 13. Asst. engineer, corps en- 

 gineers, U.S.A. 73 ; instr. civil eng, Sheffield Sci. 

 Sch, Y^ale, 74-78; prof, Lehigh, 78-07; con- 

 sulting engineer, 07- Acting asst, U. S. Coast 

 and Geod. Surv, 80-85; assoc. ed, 'Appleton's 

 Cyclopedia,' 92-96; ed-in-ehief, 'Am. Civil Eng. 

 Pocket Book,' 08- A.A. (v. pres, 94); Math. 

 Soc; Civil Eng; Eng. Educ. (pres, 96); Philos. 

 Soc; Int. Ass. Test. Mat. (pres. Am. sect, 99, 

 15). Mechanics and strength of materials; hy- 

 draulics; theory of equations; least squares. 



Merritt, Prof. Ernest (George), 39 East Ave, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. *Physics. Indianapolis, Ind, 

 April 28, 65. Purdue, 81-82; M.E, Cornell, 86, 

 87-88; Berlin, 93-94. Instr. physics, Cornell, 

 82-92, asst. prof, 92-03, prof, 03-, dean, grad. 

 sch, 09-13. Assoc, ed, 'Physical Review.' Nat. 

 Acad; A.A. (sec'y, B, 95, v. pres, 00) ; Physical 

 Soc. (sec'y, 99-12, ed, 'Bui,' v. pres, 13, pres, 

 14, 15) ; Am. Acad. Efficiency of glow lamps; 

 infra-red dichroism; photography of manometric 

 flame; conduction in arc gases; reflected cathode 

 rays; photo-electric raj^s; conductivity of gases 

 due to presence of incandescent carbon; lumi- 

 nescence. 



Merritt, Dr. John W(esley), Sapulpa Refining 

 Co, Sapulpa, Okla. Geology. Atchison Co, Mo, 

 Feb. 8, 85. B.S, Northwestern, 10, fellow, 11- 

 12, M.S, 12; fellow, Wisconsin, 16-17, Ph.D, 17. 

 Instr. geol, Dartmouth, 12-16; geologist, Rox- 

 ana Petroleum Co, 16-18, Sapulpa Ref. Co, 18- 



Mem, U. S. Gcol. Surv, 13-14. Ass. Petrol. 

 Geol. Petroleum geology ; metamorphism. 



Merrow, Prof. Harriet Lathrop, Merrow, Conn. 

 Botany. Merrow, Sept. 8, 58. B.S, Wellesley, 

 86, A.M, 93; Michigan, 91-92. Teacher science, 

 high sch, Plymouth, Mass, 87-88; Harcourt 

 Place, Gambler, Ohio, 88-91 ; grad. asst, Michi- 

 gan, 93-94; prof, lot, R. I. Col, 95- A.A; 

 Bot. Soc. Parasitic fungi. 



Mershon, Ealph D(avenport), 65 W. 54th St, New 

 York, N. Y. Electrical engineering. Zanes- 

 ville, Ohio, July 14, 68. M.E, Ohio State, 90; 

 Sc.D, Tufts, 18. Student asst. physics, Ohio 

 State, 90, asst. elec. eng, 90-91; engineer and 

 designer, Westinghouse Elec. and Mfg. Co, Pitts- 

 burgh and N. Y. City, 91-97; chief engineer, 

 Colo. Elec. Power Co, Canon City and Cripple 

 Creek, 97-98; engineer and designer. Westing- 

 house Elec. and Mfg. Co, 98-00; consulting elec. 

 and mech. engineer, 00- Engineer, Victoria 

 Falls Power Co, South Africa, 05-; major and 

 lieut. col, corps engineers, 17-19. John Scott 

 medal, Franklin Inst. A.A; Elec. Eng. (v. pres, 

 02-05, pres, 12); Mech. Eng; Civil Engj Elec- 

 trochem. Soc; Franklin Inst; Can. Soc. Civil 

 Eng; British Inst. Elec. Eng. Air losses occur- 

 ring on transmission lines at high voltages. 



Merwin, B(ruce) Welch, The University Mu- 

 seum, Philadelphia, Pa. Archeology. lola, 

 Kans, Feb. 27, 89. A.B, B.S, Kansas, 11. Instr, 

 high sch, Paris, Tenn, 11-12; Jerome and Lewis- 

 ton, Idaho, 12-13 ; supt. schools, Savonburg, 

 Kans, 13-14; asst. curator, univ. museum, Penn- 

 sylvania, 15- Asst. director, Pcabody Museum 

 expcd. to Ohio, OS, director, 11, Tenn, 13. An- 

 throp. Ass. (acting see'y-treas, 18, mem. council, 

 19); Kans. Acad. Mounds of Henry County, 

 Tenn, and vicinity. 



Merwin, Dr. H(ert)ert) E(ugene), Geophysical 

 Laboratory, Washington, D. C. Geophysics. 

 Newton, Kans, Feb. 20, 78. B.S, Harvard, 08, 

 Ph.D, 11. Asst. physiog. and teaching fellow 

 miner, and petrol, Harvard, 07-09; asst. petrol- 

 ogist, geophys. lah, Carnegie Institutions, 09- 

 17, peirologist, 17- Physical Soc; Geol. Soc; 

 Wash. Acad; Wash. Geol. Soc; Wash. Philos. 

 Soc. Glacial geology; mineralogy; petrology; 

 physics. 



Merz, Albert R(onald), Bureau of Soils, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. Chemistry. Lynchburg, Va, Jan. 



14, 87. B.S, Virginia, 09, M.S, 11. Chemist, 

 Raymond Mining Co, 06; asst. chemist, exp. sta. 

 Pa. State, 07; asst. chem, Virginia, 08-09, instr, 

 09-10; asst. chemist. South. Cotton Oil Co, 10- 

 11; scientist, iur. soils, U. S. Dept. Agr, 11- 

 Abstractor, 'Chem. Abstracts,' 18- A.A; Chem. 

 Soc. Giant kelps; potash from cement mills and 

 blast furnaces; collection of phosphoric acid; 

 Russia's platinum. 



Merz, Eugene, 338 Wilson Ave, Newark, N. J. 

 Mining engineering. New York, N. Y, April 11, 

 69. B.S, Col. City of N. Y, 88; E.M, .Columbia, 

 92. Treas, Heller and Mers Co; pres, Ultra- 

 marine Co. Chem. Soc; Soc. Chem. Indust. 



Meserve, Prof. Philip W(eston), 24 College St, 

 Brunswick, Maine. Chemistry. Portland. Maine, 

 Nov. 24, 88. A.B, Bowdoin, 11; A.M. Harvard, 



15. Assoc, div. pharmacol, hygienic lab, U. S. 



