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95-04; demonstrator anat, George Washington, 

 00-04^ prof, hygiene, 95-09, practical anat. and 

 dean, 05-09; prof, anat, Alabama, 11-15; Med. 

 Col. of S. C, 15- A. A; Am. Med. Ass. (mem. 

 special committee on preliminary educ. require- 

 ments) ; Climat. Ass. (v. pres, 02, pres, 04) ; 

 assoc. Ass. Med. Col. (v. pres, 08, mem. com- 

 mittee, med. educ. and pedagogics, 15-20, chair- 

 man, 19); Wash. Philos. Soc. Sun-stroke; rela- 

 tion of clothing to temperature; sensible tem- 

 perature; seasonal prevalence of pneumonia; 

 seasonal influence on suicide; relation of tem- 

 perature, humidity and winds to chronic nephri- 

 tis; anatomy of lungs and acute lobar pneu- 

 monia; innerration of axillary arch muscles; 

 Rolandic angle in negro brains; orthograde pos- 

 ture and pulmonary tuberculosis. 



Phillips, W(illiam) J(eter), U. S. Entomological 

 Laboratory, Charlottesville, Va. Entomology. 

 Accomac Co, Va, Dec. 23, 79. B.S, Va. Poly- 

 tech, 01, M.S, 03. Asst. state entomologist, Va, 

 03-04; entom. asst, hur. cntom, U. S. Bept. Agr, 

 04- A.A; Ass. Eeon. Entom; Entom. Soc. The 

 spring grain aphis or ' green bug. ' 



Phinney, J(ohn) I(nglee), 9 Chauncy St, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. Chemistry, Physics. Machias, 

 Maine, Nov. 25, 68. Scott Hurtt scholar, Yale, 

 91-92, A.B, 92, Sillinaan fellow, 92-94; Thayer 

 scholar, Harvard, 94-95. Asst, chem. lab, 

 Yale, 92-94; private asst. org. chem. Harvard, 

 94-95; head, dept. chem. and physics, Brock- 

 ton High Sch, 95-97; Cambridge Latin Sch, 97- 

 15; Browne and Nichols Sch, 15- Asst. physics. 

 Harvard, 17- Chem. Soc; East. Ass. Physics 

 Teachers. Spectroscopic analysis; picryl ma- 

 lonie ester derivatives; electrolytical deposition 

 of cadmium. 



Picard, Eev. Maurice, Barnard College, New 

 York, N. Y. Botany. Nyack, N. Y, July 18, 

 90. A.B, Columbia, 10, A.M, 11; Ph.D, N. Y. 

 Univ, 19. Instr, Lincoln, 11-12; asst. prof, bot, 

 Middlebury, 13-14; lecturer philos, Barnard, 

 Columbin, 19- Philos. Ass. Psychology; phi- 

 losophy. 



Pickard, Greenleaf WChittier), 59 Dalton Road, 

 Newton Center, Mass. Electrical engineering. 

 Portland, Maine, Feb. 14, 77. Harvard, 99; 

 Mass. Inst. Tech, 00; Blue Hill Observatory, 

 90-00. Elec. engineer. Am. Telephone and Tele- 

 graph Co, 02-06; consulting engineer, 06- A.A; 

 . Radio Eng. (pres, 13); fel. Elec. Eng; Chem. 

 Soc; London Soc. Chem. Indust. Radio com- 

 munication. 



Pickering, Prof. W(illiam) H(enry), Mandeville, 

 Jamaica, W. I. * Astronomy. Boston, Mass, 

 Feb. 15, 58. B;S, Mass. Inst. Tech, 79. Asst. 

 and instr. physics, Mass. Inst. Tech, 80-87 ; asst. 

 and asst. prof, astron, Harvard Col. Observa- 

 tory, 87- Lalande prize, Paris Acad, 05; Jans- 

 sen medal, 09 ; two medals, Soc. Astron. de Mex ; 

 Chevalier, Order of Saint James of Portugal. 

 Astron. Soc; Inst. Social Sci; Appalachian Mt. 

 Club (past pres); Am. Acad; N. Y. Authors 

 Club; Harvard Travelers Club; hon. mem. Soc. 

 Astron. de Mex; hon. mem. Royal Astron. Soc. 

 Can; British Astron. Soc; assoc. Royal Astron. 

 Soc. Photography; the solar system; Phoebe, 

 Saturn 's ninth satellite ; the moon ; great nebula 

 in Orion; the leonids; brighter satellites of 



Jupiter; Themis, Saturn's tenth satellite; Mars; 

 planet beyond Neptune; meteors and meteor- 

 ites; photometry of sun and moon; volcanoes 

 and volcanic phenomena; cometary investiga- 

 tions. 



Pickett, Prof. B(ethel) S(tewart), University of 

 Illinois, Urbami, 111. Horticulture. Tillson- 

 burg, Ont, June 4, 82. Assoc, grad, Ont. Agr. 

 Col, 00; B.S. A, Toronto, 04; M.S, Illinois, 06. 

 Sec'y and registrar, Ont. Agr. Col, 02-05; lec- 

 turer and asst. pomol, Illinois, 06-08; prof. 

 hort, N. H. Col, 08-12; prof. pom,ol, Illinois, 12- 

 Soc. Hort. Sci. Spraying of apple trees; cold 

 storage of apples; correlation in foliage and 

 fruit of strawberries; heredity in muskmelons 

 and squashes; formation of fruit buds in apples. 



Pickett, Prof. F(ennen) L(ayton), College Sta- 

 tion, Pullman, Wash. Botany. Bakers Corner, 

 Ind, Jan. 10, 81. A.B, Indiana, 10, A.M, 12, 

 fellow, 13-14, Ph.D, 15. Critic teacher lot, In- 

 diana, 09-13, instr, 10-14; assoc. prof, Wush. 

 State, 14-18, prof, and head of dept, 18- A.A; 

 Bot. Soc; Ecol. Soc; Micros. Soc; Torrey Bot. 

 Club; Fern Soc; Sullivant Moss Soc; West. Soc. 

 Nat; Ind. Acad. Morphology; ecology of ferns 

 and mosses. 



Pickler, Dr. WlUiam E(ugene), 830 S. Fourth 

 St, Louisville, Ky. Forestry. New Albany, Ind, 

 Aug. 25, 92. A.B, Wabash. 14; Ph.D, Illinois, 

 18. With hur. plant indust, U. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Diastase production. 



Pidgeon, Dr. H(oward) A, Western Electric Co, 

 New York, N. Y. Physics. Pennsville, Ohio. 

 B.S, Ohio (Athens), 11, M.S, 12; Ph.D, Cornell, 

 18. Instr. physics, Ohio (Athens), 10-12; Cor- 

 nell, 13-18; research physicist. West. Elec. Co, 

 18- Physical Soc. Magnetostriction; electron 

 emission from hot bodies. 



Plenkowsky, Arthur T(haddeus), Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, Washington, D. C. Physics. Wis. 73. 

 Ph.B, Chicago, 98. Teacher physics, high schools, 

 Chicago and Indianapolis, 98-03 ; assoc. physi- 

 cist, Bur. Standards, 05- Physical Soc; Wash. 

 Philos. Soc. Constancy of standards of mass; 

 high precision weighing. 



Pierce, Prof. C(larence) A(lbert), Worcester 

 Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass. Phys- 

 ics. Redding, Conn, Nov. 4, 78. B.S, Wesleyan, 

 02, M.S, 04; Ph.D, Cornell, 08. Asst. physics, 

 Wesleyan, 02-04; instr, Cornell, 04r-ll; asst. 

 prof. elec. eng, Worcester, 11- Lab. asst. Bur. 

 Standards, 02-04, asst. physicist, 06. A.A; 

 Physical Soc. Electrical engineering; fluores- 

 cence and phosphorescence. 



Pierce, Dr. G(eorge) W(aslilngton), Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Cambridge, Mass. *Physics. Webber- 

 ville, 'Tex, Jan. 11, 72. B.S, Texas, 93, A.M, 

 94; Harvard, 99, Ph.D, 00; Leipzig, 00-01. 

 Instr. physics. Harvard, 03-07, asst. prof, 07- 

 17, prof, and director, Cruft lab, 17- Nat. 

 Acad; Radio Eng. (past pres); Physical Soc; 

 Elec. Eng; Inventors Guild; Am. Acad. Elec- 

 trical resonance; electric waves; liquid diffusion 

 and super-saturation; resonance in wireless 

 telegraph circuits; measurement of intensity of 

 sound; crystal rectifiers for alternating cur- 

 rents; electric oscillations and electric waves. 



