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Bot, Soc. Photosynthesis; plant respiration; 

 carhohyd rates. 



Spofford, Prof. Charles M(ilton), 61 Colbourue 

 Crescent, Brookline, Mass. Civil engineering. 

 Georgetown, Mass, Sept. 28, 71. B.S, Mass. 

 Inst. Tech, 93. Asst. t^ivil eng, Mass. Inst. Tech, 

 96-97, instr, 97-03, asst. prof, 03-05; prof, 

 Brooklyn Polytech, 05-09; Hayward prof, and 

 in charge civil and sanit. eng. dept, Mass. Inst. 

 Tech, 09- Designer and expert adviser on many 

 bridges, Avarehouses and piers, 00-; mem. Boston 

 Terminal Commission, 15-16; mem. firm, Fay, 

 Spofford and Thorndike, 14- A. A; Civil Eng; 

 Eng. Educ; Am. Acad; Boston Soc. Civil Eng; 

 Brooklyn Eng. Club. Theorv of .structures. 



Sponsler, O(lenus) L(ee), 1013 High St, Palo 

 Alto, Calif. Forestry. Akron, Ohio, June 17, 

 79. A.B, Michigan, 10; A.M, Nebraska, 12. 

 Adj. prof, forestry and bot, Nebraska, 10-11, 

 assoc. prof, in charge, 11-12; assoc. prof, Michi- 

 gan, 12-17; -wood technologist, forest products 

 lab, U. S. Forest Service. Forest surveyor, 

 Mich. Geol. Surv; Wis. State Board of Forestry. 

 A. A; Soc. Foresters. Silvics; dendrology. 



Spooner, Dr. Lesley H(inckley), 520 Common- 

 wealth Ave, Boston, !Mass. Bacteriology. Hing- 

 ham. Mass, Aug. 22, 81. A.B, Harvard,' 03, M.D, 

 07. Physician, out-patient dept, Mass. Gen. 

 Hosp, 15-; gen. clinic and health clinic, Boston 

 Dispensary, 19- Instr. bacter, Harvard Med. 

 Sch, 12-; consulting physician, Mass. Charitable 

 Eye and Ear Infirmary, 15-; major, M.C, 17-19. 

 Ass. Path, and Baet; Am. Med. Ass; Boston 

 Med. Library. Practical application of bac- 

 teriology to medicine. 



Spragg, Frank A(zor), East Lansing, Mich. 

 Plant hreedinp. Near Hazelton, Iowa, Aug. 21, 

 74. B.S.A, Mont. Col, 02; M.S, Mieh. Agr. Col, 

 06. Eesearch assoc. plant breeding, Mich. Agr. 

 Col, 06- In charge, Mont. Agr. Exhibit, La. 

 Purchase Expos, 04. A.A; Bot. Soc; Soc. 

 Agron; Mich. Acad. (v. pres, sec'y agr, 19). 

 Plant breeding in farm crops; mathematics of 

 genetics. 



Sprague, Frank (Julian), 165 Broadway, New 

 York, N. Y. ^Electrical engineering. Invention. 

 Milford, Conn, July 25, 57. Grad, U. S. Naval 

 Acad, 78. Officer, U.S.N, 78-84; asst. to T. A. 

 Edison, 84; v. pres, Sprague Elec. Ry. and Motor 

 Co, 84-90; consulting engineer, Edison Gen. 

 Elec. Co, 90; pres. and v. pres, Sprague Elec. 

 Elevator Co, 91-97; v. pres. and tech. director, 

 Sprague Elec. Co, 98-01; consulting engineer, 

 Sprague Safety Control and Signal Corp. Mem. 

 and see'y, jury, Crystal Palace Elec. Exhib, 

 82-83 ; mem. Terminal Commission for Elec. 

 of N. Y. C. and H. R. R. R. Gold medal, Paris 

 Exhib, 89; Elliot Cresson medal, Franklin Inst, 

 04; grand, prize, La. Purchase Expos, 04; Edi- 

 son gold medal, 11. Elec. Eng. (pres, 92) ; Civil 

 Eng; assoc. Naval Archit; Naval Inst; Consult- 

 ing Eng. (pres, 14) ; Inventors Guild (pres) ; 

 N. Y. Elec. Soc. (pres, 04) ; British Inst. Elec. 

 Eng; British Inst. Civil Eng. Electricity; rail- 

 way operation and power distribution ; rapid 

 transit ; power transmission and utilization ; 

 stationary motors; pioneer modern trolley sys- 

 tem; inaugurated high-speed electric elevators; 

 invented multiple-unit system of electric rail- 



ways; automatic train control; electrification of 

 terminals of New York Central and Hudson 

 River Railroad; Southern Pacific Company and 

 Sierra Nevada electrification project. 



Spraragen, William, National Research Council, 29 

 W. 39th St, New York, N. Y. Electrical engineer- 

 ing. Warwick, N. Y, May 20, 95. B.E, Union, 16. 

 Testing engineer, Westinghouse Elec. and Mfg. 

 Co, 16-17; instr. elec. eng, Okla. Col, 17-18; 

 Washington (Seattle), 19-20; sec'y, eng. div, 

 Nat. Eesearch Council, 20- Ballistic inspector, 

 War Dept, 18; asst. chairman, welding research 

 committee, Nat. Research Council and Emer- 

 gency Fleet Corp, 18-19. Elec. Eng. Welding; 

 mathematics applied to engineering. 



Spring, Prof. Samuel N(ewton), Cornell Univer- 

 sity, Ithaca, N. Y. Forestry. Sioux City. Iowa. 

 Feb. 5, 75. A.B, Yale, 98, M.F, 03. Field asst, 

 bur. forestry, U. S. Dept. Agr, 03; prof, for- 

 estry, Maine, 03-05; forest asst. and later asst. 

 forest inspector and chief, office of exten, U. S. 

 Forest Service, 05-09; state forester. Conn, and 

 forester, Conn. Exp. Sta, 09-12; prof, forestry, 

 Cornell, 12- A.A; Forestry Ass; Soc. Forest- 

 ers; N. East. Foresters Ass;'N. Y. Forestry Ass. 

 Silviculture. 



Springer, Dr. Alfred, 312 E. Second St, Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio. *C]iemistry, Physics. Cincinnati, 

 Feb. 12, 54. Ph.D, Heidelberg, 72. Sole owner, 

 Alex. Fries ajid Bro, Cincinnati, 74- A. A. 

 (see'y, subsect. chem, 81, sec'y, C, 82, asst. gen. 

 sec'y, 83, gen. sec'y, 84, v. pres, 92) ; Chem. Soc; 

 cor. mem. British Ass. The torsion balance; 

 aluminum sound boards ; fermentation without 

 combined nitrogen; anti-putrescent effects of 

 copper salts. 



Springer, Dr. Alfred, Jr, 312 E. Second St, Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio. Physical chemistry. Cincinnati, 

 Nov. 1, 88. A.B, Yale, 09 ; Ph.D, Hopkins, 12 ; 

 Gottingen, 12-13. Chemist, Alex. Fries and Bro, 

 13- Chem. Soc. Conductivity and dissociation 

 of organic acids. 



Springer, Frank, Smithsonian Institution, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. Paleontology. Wapello, Iowa, 

 June 17, 48. Ph.B, Iowa State, 67 ; Sc.D, George 

 Washington, 21. Latoyer, 68- Assoc, paleont, 

 museum comp. zool, Harvard, 01 ; U. S. Nat. 

 Museum, 12; state senator, N. M, 80, 01; regent, 

 New Mexico, 98; state museum, N. M, 09-; 

 pres, Maxwell L. G. Co, 90-; director, First Nat. 

 Bank, Las Vegas, N. M; mem. bar, U. S. Su- 

 premo Court, 82- A.A; Geol. Soc; Paleont. 

 Soc ; for. cor. London Geol. Soc. Paleocrinoidea ; 

 North American Crinoidea camerata; a Trenton 

 echinoderm fauna; the genus Scyphocrinus; 

 Crinoidea flexibilia. 



Springer, Prof. F(ranklin) W(esley), University 

 of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Electrical en- 

 gineering. Anoka, Minn, Jan. 18, 70. B.E.E, 

 Minnesota, 93, E.E, 95. Instr. elec. eng, Minne- 

 sota, 95-99. asst. prof, 99-05, prof, 05- Elec. 

 Eng; Eng. Educ. Gas engine ignition and two 

 cycle design; electric spark recorder. 



Sprunt, Dr. Tdiomas) P(eck), 1035 N. Calvert 

 St, Baltimore. ]\Id. Medicine. Augusta Co, Va, 

 Feb. 16, 84. A.B, Davidson, 03 ; M.D, Hopkins, 

 09. Asst, instr. and later assoc. path, HopMns, 



