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don, 98j asst. supt, clin. lab, 99; junior and 

 later senior res. med. ofiicor, Nat. Hosp. Queen 

 Square, 00-02; res. asst. physician, St. Thomas' 

 Hosp, 02-04; assoc. prof, mental and nervous 

 diseases, Creighton, U4^06; asst. supt, Nebr. 

 Hosp. for Insane, 06-07; director, III. State 

 Psycliopathi-c Inst, 07- Lecturer psychiat, Ne- 

 braska, 06-07; 111. Pellagra Commission, 10-12; 

 BristoAve medal, London, 99. A. A; Psychol. 

 Ass; Psychopath. Ass; Neur. Ass; Am. Med. 

 Ass; Chicago Neur. Soc. (v. pres, 12, pres, 14); 

 fel. Royal Soc. Med; London Neur. Soc; Lon- 

 don Path. Soc. Bacteriology of" emphysematous 

 gangrene; periodic paralysis; acute myelitis; 

 pellagra ; etiology of mental disorders ; defensive 

 ferments in the blood. 



Singewald, Prof. Joseph T(heophilus), Jr, Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Geology. 

 Baltimore, Sept. 25, 84. A.B, Hopkins, 06, fel- 

 low, 07-08, Ph.D, 09. Junior geologist, U. S. 

 Bur. Mines, 10-20; assoc. prof. econ. geol, Hop- 

 kins, 13- Geologist, Md. Geol. Surv, 13. Mem. 

 Williams Mem. exped. to S. Am, 19- A.A ; Geol. 

 Soc; Min. Eng; "Wash. Geol. Soc. Mineral min- 

 ing; geology of South America. 



Sinnott, Prof. Edmund "WCare), Storrs, Conn. 

 *Botany. Somerville, Mass, Feb. 5, 88. A.B, 

 Harvard, 08, A.M, 10, Sheldon traveling fellow 

 in Australasia. 10-11. Ph.D, 13. Inst- wood 

 technol. Harvard, 13-15; prof. lot. and genet. 

 Conn. Col, 15- A.A: Soc. Nat; Bot. Soc. (treas, 

 17-) ; Ecol. Soc. Plant morphology and embry- 

 ology; plant morphogenesis; paleobotany; ecol- 

 ogy; wood technology. 



Sisam, Prof, diaries H(ershel), Colorado College, 

 Colorado Springs, Colo. *Mathematics. Cedar 

 Eapids, Iowa, Sept. 8, 79. A.B, Michigan, 02; 

 A.M, Cornell, 03, fellow, 03-04, Ph.D, 06. In- 

 str. math, U. S. Naval Acad, 04-06 ; assoc. . 

 Illinois, 06-09, asst. prof, 09-18; prof, Colo. 

 Col, 18- Math. Soc; Math. Ass. Ruled sur- 

 faces; surfaces generated by conies; surfaces 

 whose asymptotic lines are cubics. 



Sisson, Prof. Septimus, Ohio State University, 

 Columbus, Ohio. Anatomy. Gateshead, Eng- 

 land, Oct. 2, 65. B.S, Chicago, 98; V.S, Ont. 

 Vet. Col, 91. Dem.onstrator anat, Ont. Vet. Col, 

 91-98; prof. vet. science and zool, Kansas State, 

 98-99, zool, 99-00; assoc. prof. vet. med, Ohio 

 State, 00-03, prof. comp. anat, OS- A.A; Ass. 

 Anat. Anatomy of the domesticated animals. 



Sittenfield, Dr. M(aurice) J(oseph), 73 E. 90th 

 St. New York, N. Y. Pathology. Germany, 77. 

 M.D, Bellerue Med. Col, 98. Assoc, path, Co- 

 lumbia, 09- A.A; Ass. Path, and Bact; Soc. 

 Exp. Biol; Ass. Cancer Research; Am. Med. 

 Ass; Harvey Soc; fel. N. Y. Acad. Med. Cancer 

 research; immunity; tissue transplantation; 

 histo-pathology. 



Skeels, H(omer) C(ollar), U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Botany. Grand 

 Rapids, Mich, July 31, 73. B.S, Mich. Agr. 

 Col, 98. Gardener, bot. garden, Mich. Agr. Col, 

 98-99; botanist. Forest of Arden, Joliet, 111, 00- 

 06; gardener, Dellwood Park, 06-08; scientific 

 asst, U. S. Dept. Agr, 08-14, bot. asst. 14-19, 

 hotanist, 19- A.A; Bot. Soc; Wash. Bot. Soc. 



Skinner, Alanson (Buck), American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York, N. Y. Anthro- 



pology. Buffalo, N. Y, Sept. 7, 86. Columbia. 

 Asst. anthropologist, Am. Museum Nat. Hist, 

 00-15, asst. curator, IS-; mem. scientilic staff, 

 museum Am. Indian, Heye Foundation, 16- 

 20; asst. curator anthrop, Milwamkee Pub. 

 Museum, 20- Asst. archeologist, Am Mu- 

 seum Nat. Hist, expedition to Long Island, 

 01 ; Peabody Museum exped. to New York, 04 ; 

 head, exped. to N. Y. Stat, 07 ; James Bay, 08, 

 09; Winnebago and Menominee, Wis, 10; Flor- 

 ida, 10; Menominee of Wis, 10-12, 13, 19 ; Plains, 

 Cree and Ojibway, 13; Iowa, Ponca, Kansa and 

 Sioux, 14; co-leader, Susquehanna River exped, 

 16; leader, exped. to Costa Rica, 16-17, 18-19; 

 head archeol. explorations, N. Y. Iroquois region. 

 Fel. Ethnol. Soc; Anthrop. Ass; Folk-lore Soc; 

 life mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist; Statcn I.sl. Ass. 

 Arts and Sci. (trustee and patron). Archeology 

 and ethnology of North America; the New York 

 coastal Algonkin Indians; ethnology of the 

 northern Ojibway, eastern Cree, Menominee, and 

 Florida Seminole Indians. 



Skinner, C(harles) E{dward). Westinghouse Elec- 

 tric and Manufacturing Co, East Pittsburgh, Pa. 

 Engineering. Redfield, Ohio, May 30, 65. Ohio 

 (Athens), 84-85; M.E, Ohio State, 90. Con- 

 nected with lab, Westinghouse Elec. and Mfg. 

 Co, 90-95, elec. engineer. 95-06, engineer in 

 charge, research div, 06-19, manager, research 

 dept, 19- Delegate, Int. Cong. Soc. Test. Mat, 

 Brussels, 06; special representative Elec. Eng, 

 Committee on Elec. Standards, London, 15; 

 chairman Am. delegation. Int. Elec. Cong, Brus- 

 sells, 20; mem. Eng. Council. A.A; Elec. Eng. 

 (manager, 14-19, v. pres, 19-); Physical Soc; 

 Electroehem. Soc; Franklin Inst; Soc. Test. 

 Mat; West. Pa. Eng. Soc; Pittsburgh Acad. 

 High tension and high frequency phenomena; 

 insulating materials as applied to electrical ap- 

 paratus; aging of iron and steel in dynamos and 

 motors; effect of temperature on insulating ma- 

 terials. 



Skinner, Prof. Clarence A(urelius), Kensington, 

 Md. *Physics. Loudon Co, Va, Jan. 6, 71. 

 B.S, Nebraska, 93; Ph.D, Berlin, 99. Demon- 

 strator physics, Nebraska, 99-01, adj. prof. 01- 

 03, asst. prof, 03-09; prof, and head of dept, 

 06-19; chief, optics div, Bur. Standards, 19- 

 A.A; Physical Soc; (mem. council. 10-13, ed. 

 board, 13); Optical Soc; Wash. Acad; Wash. 

 Philos. Soc. Passage of electricity through 

 gases; relation of the voltaic series to the elec- 

 trode drop in gases; atomic ions in gases; op- 

 tical properties of magnetic metals ; plane double 

 refraction normal to magnetic field in liquids; 

 phase change by reflection from substances 

 possessing selective absorption; electrode polari- 

 zation in gases. 



Skinner, Prof. E(mest) B(rown). University of 

 Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. Mathematics. Red- 

 field, Ohio, Dec. 12, 63. A.B, Ohio (Athens), 

 88; Clark, 91-92; Ph.D. Chicago, 00. Prof. 

 math. Amity, 88-91; instr, Wisconsin, 92-95, 

 asst. prof, 95-10, assoc. prof, 10-20, prof, SO- 

 Director. McCormick Thcol. Sem, 07-; mem. 

 Madison Sch. Board, 19- A.A; Math. Soc; Wis. 

 Acad, (past sec 'y, and ed. 'Trans.' 00-05). 

 Finite groups of linear transformations; alge- 

 braic numbers. 



