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AMEEICAN MEN OF SCIENCE 



Observatory, WiscoDsin, 84-87; astronomer, Ar- 

 gentine Nat. Observatory, Cordoba, 87-90; prof, 

 astron. and director, Laws Observatory, Mis- 

 souri, 90-99; prof, viath, U.S.N, 99-, observer, 

 U. S. Naval Observatory, 99-02, 08-10; director, 

 Nautical Almanac, 07-10; in charge scL work, 

 good, surv, Am. 8amoa, 14. A. A; Astron. Roc; 

 Wash. Philos. Soc; St. Louis Acad; Astron. 

 Gesell. Errors of meridian circles; orbits of 

 comets; astronomical time keeping; star places; 

 errors of 6-inch transit circles and clocks of 

 U. S. Naval Observatory; observations of fixed 

 stars. 



Upham, Dr. Warren, Minnesota Historical So- 

 ciety, St, Paul, Minn. 'Geology, Archeology. 

 Amherst, N. H, March 8, 50. A.B, Dartmouth, 

 71, hon. A.M^ 94, Sc.D, 06. Asst, N. H. Geol. 

 Surv, 74-78; Minn. Geol. Surv, 79-85; U. S. 

 Geol, Surv, 85-93; Minn. Geol. Surv, 93-94; 

 librarian. Western Eeserve Hist. Soc, 95; sec'y 

 and librarian, Minn. Hist. Soc, St. Paul, 95-14, 

 archeologist, 14- A.2V. (sec'y, E, 98); Geol. 

 Soc; Archeol. Inst; Minn. Hist. Soc; N. H. Hist. 

 Soc; Minn. Acad; Boston Soc. Nat. Hist; Lon- 

 don Victoria Inst. The glacial lake Agassiz; 

 glacial lakes; moraines; till; drumlins; eskers; 

 kames; causes of the ice age; climatology; an- 

 tiquity of mankind and its relation to the ice 

 age; flora and fauna of Minnesota; origins and 

 meanings of geographic names. 



Upson, Prof. Fred W(nbert), Station A, Lincoln, 

 Nebr. Chemistry. Byron, 111, Feb. 2, 83. B.S, 

 Nebraska, 07, A.M, 08; Ph.D, Chicago, 10. 

 Instr. chem, Cincinnati, 10-12; Chicago, 12-13; 

 head, dept. agr. chem, NehrasTca, 13-18, prof, 

 chem, chmrman of dept. and director, chem. lab- 

 oratories, 18- A.A; Chem. Soc. Substituted 

 succinic acids; colloids; soils; sugars, 



Upson, Prof, Walter I.(yman), WashingtoiT Uni- 

 versity, St. Louis, Mo. Electrical engineering. 

 Cleveland, Ohio, July 3, 77. B.S, Princeton, 99, 

 E.E, 02, M.S, 03 ; London, 07 ; M.E.E, Harvard, 

 08. Instr. elec. eng, Princeton, 04-06; asst. 

 prof, Ohio State, 08-10; prof, Vermont, 10-12; 

 asst. prof. Union, 12-14, assoc. prof, 14-20; 

 prof, Washington (St. Louis), 20- Consulting 

 engineer. Gen. Elec. Co, 18-19. A.A; Elec. Eng. 

 (chairman, Schenectady sect, 17) ; Eng. Educ. 

 London Elec. Eng. Electrical science; engineer- 

 ing education. 



Upthegrove, Prof. Clair, University of Michigan, 

 Ann Arbor, Mich, Metallurgy. Central Lake, 

 Mich, Nov, 30, 84. B.Ch.E, Michigan, 14. 

 Chemist and metallurgist, Detroit Copper and 

 Brass Polling Mills, 14-16; instr. chem. eng, 

 Michigan, 16-17, asst. prof, 19- Chem. Soc. 

 Non-ferrous metallurgy; brass; heat treatment 

 of non-ferrous alloys. 



Upton, Clifford B(rewster), Teachers College, Co- 

 lumbia University, New York, N. Y. Mathe- 

 matics. Detroit, Mich, May 10, 77. Grad, 

 Mich. State Nor. Col, 98; A.B, Michigan, 02; 

 Columbia, 03-05, A.M, 07; Gottingen, 07; Paris, 

 08-10. Instr. math, secondary sch, 98-00; 

 Horace Mann Sch, Columbia, 02-10, asst, Teach- 

 ers Col, 04-07, instr, 07-10, asst. prof, 10-17, 

 assoc. prof, 17-, sec'y, 11-19. provost, 19- 

 Math. Soc; Math. Ass; Ass. Teachers Math. 

 Middle States and Md. The teaching of mathe- 



matics in elementary and secondary schools; 

 modern calculating machinery and its uses; the 

 teaching of mathematics in France; college ad- 

 ministration. 



Urban, Prof, Wabur M(arshall), 18 Rope Ferry 

 Road, Hanover, N. H. Psychology. Philadel- 

 phia, Pa, March 27, 73. A.B, Princeton, 95; 

 Ph.D, Leipzig, 97. Reader in philos, Princeton, 

 97-98; prof, philos. and psychol, Ursinus, 98- 

 02; philos. Trinity (Conn), 02-20; Dartmouth, 

 20- Asst. ed. 'Diet. Philos. and Psychol.' 

 Psychol. Ass; Philos. Ass. The psj'chology of 

 feelings and emotions, with special reference to 

 the psychology of value; the memory of emo- 

 tions in connection with esthetic creation and 

 appreciation; experimental psychology of the 

 value-judgment. 



Uren, Prof. Lester Charles, University of Cali- 

 fornia, Berkeley, Calif. Mining engineering. 

 Grass Valley, Calif, Sept. 1, 88. B.S, Cali- 

 fornia, 11. With Eagle-ShaAvmut Mining Co, 

 04-12; assoc. prof, petroleum eng, California, 

 12- Engineer, Fuel Ad, 18; capt, C.W.S, 

 A.E.F, 18-19. Mim and Metal. Eng. Petroleum 

 engineering. 



Uriarte, Prof. Leopoldo, 825 Mexico St, Buenos 

 Aires, Argentina. Medicine. Buenos Aires, 

 July 10, 74. Nat. Col. and Med. Univ. of 

 Buenos Aires. Asst. practitioner, Buenos Aires 

 hospital, 94-97; director of lab, Hosp. of In- 

 fectious Diseases, 01; substitute prof. Med. 

 Univ. of Buenos Aires, 01, special prof, 11- 

 Chief of sect, bacter inst. Pub. Health Dept, 

 12; chief, practical work in study of infectious 

 diseases, 01-12; mem. commission to study 

 plague in Paraguay. Various scientific socie- 

 ties. Infectious diseases. 



Urie, Frank D(ickinson), Elgin Observatory, 

 Elgin, 111. Astronomy, Physics. Toledo, Ohio, 

 June 27, 87, A.B, Michigan, 09. Asst, De- 

 troit Observatory, Michigan, 09-10; astronomer, 

 Elgin Observatory, 10-16, asst. director, 16- 

 Astron. Soc. Chronographic registration of 

 radio time signals; watch tests. 



Umer, Prof, S(amuel) E(verett), Mountain View, 

 Calif. Mathematics. Mitchell, Ind, July 29, 87. 

 Ph.B, Baker, OG; Harvard, 08-10, Ph.D, 11. 

 Instr. math, high sch, Independence, Kans. 06- 

 08; Wisconsin, 10-11; asst. prof, Miami, 11-18, 

 assoc. prof, 18-19. Math. Soc. Transforma- 

 tions of real variables. 



Vail, Miss Anna Murray, 19 nio Carnot, Mont- 

 reuil-sur-mer, Pas de Calais, France. Botany. 

 New York, N. Y, Jan. 7, 63. Private instruc- 

 tion, Europe; student under Dr. N. L. Britton. 

 Lilirarian, N. Y. Bot. Garden, 00-07. A.A; 

 Torrey Bot. Club. Taxonomy of Leguminosae 

 and Asclopiadaceae; phylogeny. 



Valasek, Joseph, University of Minnesota, Min- 

 neapolis, Minn. Physics. Cleveland, Ohio, 

 April 27, 96. B.S, Case, 17. Asst. physicist, 

 Bur. Standards, 17-19; iiistr. physics, Minne- 

 sota, 20- Physical Soc; Optical Soc. Elec- 

 tricity; pyrometry; piezo-electricity. 



Valiant, W(illiam) S(eymour), 49 Easton Ave, 

 New Brunswick, N, J. Mineralogy, Paleontol- 

 ogy. Rome, N. Y, Nov. 13, 4."). Pub. and 



