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asst. director, research lah, SO- Capt, C.W.S, 

 ]8. Chem. Soe. Uric acid; rubber; cellulose. 



Venable, Dr. F(rancis) P(reston), Chapel Hill, 

 N. C. *Chemistry. Prince Edward Co, Va, 

 Nov. 17, 56. Virginia, 74-78; Bonn, 79-80; 

 Ph.D, GWttingen, 81; Berlin, 89; hon. Sc.D, 

 Lafayette, 04 ; LL.D, Jefferson Med. Col, 13. 

 Prof, chem, North Carolina, 81-00, pre's, 00-14, 

 prof, chem, 14- A.A. (sec'y, 96, v. pres, 99); 

 Chem. Soc. (pres, 05); Philos. Soc; fel. London 

 Chem. Soc; Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. (sec'y, 16). 

 Zirconium and its compounds; heptane and its 

 derivatives; qualitative analysis; inorganic 

 chemistry; history of chemistry; development of 

 periodic law; the atom; radioactivity. 



Verhoeff, Dr. F(rederick) H(ennan), 233 Charles 

 St, Boston, Mass. Ophthalmology. Louisville, 

 Ky, July 9, 74. Ph.B, Yale, 95 ; M.D, Hopkins, 

 99: A.M, Harvard, 02. Asst. surgeon, Balti- 

 more Eye, Ear and Throat Charity Hosp, 99- 

 00; asst. path, Harvard, 00-02, instr. ophthal. 

 path, 07-16, asst. prof, 16-; pathologist, Mass. 

 Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, 00-, asst. 

 ophthal. surgeon, 06-13, ophthal. surgeon, IS- 

 A.A; Col. Surg; Ophthal. Soc; Am. Acad. Path- 

 ological anatomy of the eye; physiological op- 

 tics; diseases of the eye. 



Verrill, Prof. A(ddison) E(mery), 582 Central 

 Ave, Wes1:\'ille, Conn. *Zoology. Greenwood, 

 Maine, Feb. 9, 39. B.S, Harvard, 62; A.M, 

 Yale, 67. Asst, museum eomp. zool, Harvard, 

 60-64; prof, zool, Tale, 64-07, emer. prof, 07-, 

 curator, zool. dept, Peabody Museum, 64-10. 

 Prof, entom. and comp. anat, Wisconsin, 67- 

 70; assoc. ed, 'Am. Jour. Science,' 69-; instr. 

 geol, Yale, 70-94 ; asst. in charge marine invert, 

 zool, U. S. Fish Commission, 71-87. Nat. Acad ; 

 A.A; Soe. Nat; Soc. Zool; Am. Acad; Conn. 

 Acad, (pres); Wis. Acad; Phila. Acad; Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist, (curator, 64-74); Essex Inst; 

 Soc. zool. de France. Marine invertebrate 

 zoology, especially Anthoza, echinodenns, an- 

 nelids, nemerteans. planarians, Mollusca, tuni- 

 cates and Bryozoa ; deep-sea zoology in general ; 

 invertebrates of southern New England; the 

 natural history, productions, geology, early his- 

 tory, zoology, etc, of the Bermuda Islands; West 

 Indian, tropical American and Brazilian corals 

 and echinoderms; echinoderms of the western 

 Atlantic and of Alaska to California ; Alcyo- 

 naria of the Blake Expedition ; Mollusca of the 

 northeast American coast; deep-sea Mollusca; 

 decapod Crustacea of New England, Bermuda 

 and West Indies; Crustacea of Connecticut; An- 

 thozoa of the Canadian arctic expedition. 



Verrill, A(lpheus) Hyatt, E. P. Dutton and Co, 

 New York, N. Y. Entomology, Ornithology, 

 New Haven, Conn, July 23. 71. Yale, 91. Ed. 

 popular science dept, 'American Boy,' 07- 

 Nat. hist, exped, West Indies, 89-90; Central 

 America, 92; Bermuda, 02; Santo Domingo, 06- 

 07. Entomology; additions to avifauna of Ber- 

 muda ; ornithology of Dominican Islands and 

 Santo Domingo; new species of Dynastes; Sole- 

 nodon paradoxus; invertebrates of Bermuda; 

 Lepidoptera larvae and Crustacea of the West 

 Indies; scientific drawing and photography. 



Ver Wiebe, Dr. Walter A(ugust), 193 12th Ave, 

 Columbus, Ohio. Geology. Schenectady, N. Y, 



Aug. 26, 87. A.B, Cornell, 11, Ph.D, IS. Asst. 

 geol, Cornell, 10-12. instr, 12-13; agr. geol, 

 Ohio State, 13-18; field geologist, Eoxana Petrol. 

 Co, 18-19; Sinclair Oil Co, 19-20; chief geol- 

 ogic, Mexican- Sinclair Co, SO- Alliance 

 fran^aise medal. A.A; Ass. Petrol. Geol. 

 Stra.tigraph3' of Devonian and Mississippian of 

 New York. Ohio and Pennsj'lvania. 



Very, Prof. F(rank) W(ashington), West-wood, 



Mass. * Astrophysics. Salem, Mass, Feb. 12, 52. 

 B.S, Mass. Inst. Tech, 73. Astronomer, Alle- 

 gheny Observatory. 78-95; adj. prof, astron. 

 and instr. geol, Pittsburgh, 90-95; acting di- 

 rector, Ladd Observatory, and prof, astron, (pro 

 tern), Brown, 96-97; special agent, U. S. 

 Weather Bur, 00; Smithsonian Inst, 02; 

 director, Westxcood Astrophys. Observatory, 06- 

 Prize, Utrecht Soc. of Arts and Sciences. A.A ; 

 Astron. Soc. Eadiation; aurora; solar constant ; 

 photometry; hail storms; new stars; parallax of 

 Nova Persei; cause of nebulosity of Nova 

 Persei ; microchemical analysis; migration of 

 birds; phosphorescence; sun-spots; ancient river 

 terraces; the terminal moraine in New York; 

 temperature of sun and moon; greenhouse 

 theory; viscosity in aeroplane support; stellar 

 evolution; radium; Rontgen rays; Avater vapor 

 on Mars; terrestrial and lunar albedoes; spiral 

 nebulae; limitation of gravitation; moon's mo- 

 tion; luminiforous ether; atoms. 



Vestal, Prof. Arthur G(ibson), Stanford Uni- 

 versity, Calif. Biology. La Grange, 111, Sept. 

 10, 88. A.B, Illinois, 11; A.M, Colorado, 13; 

 fellow, Chicago, 14-15. Ph.D, 15. Instr. biol, 

 Colorado. 11-14; prof, bot. East. 111. State Nor. 

 Sch, 15-20; acting asst. prof, biol, Stanford, 

 go- A.A; Bot. Soc; Ecol. Soc; Am. Geog. Soe; 

 Bot. Cent. States; 111. Acad. Botany; zoology; 

 plant and animal ecology and geography; vege- 

 tation of eastern prairie, sand prairie. Great 

 Plains and Rocky Mountains; forests of Illi- 

 nois. 



Vestal, Mrs. A. G. (Dr. Wanda (May) Pfeiffer), 

 Stanford University, Calif. Botany. Red Oak, 

 Iowa, March 11, 82. B.S, Chicago, 04, Ph.D. 08. 

 Asst. bot, Chicago, 09-14, instr. plant path, 14- 

 16. A.A; Bot. Soc. Morphology of Azolla and 

 Leitneria ; development of peach fruit. 



Vibrans, Dr. Frank C(harles), 226 Loraine Ave, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio. Chemistry. Cokeville. Wyo, 

 March 15, 90. A.B, Wabash, 13; Harvard. 13- 

 14; Ph.D. Michigan. 17. Asst. chem. Michigan, 

 14-17; chemist, Detroit Org. Chem. Co. 17; 

 Procter and Gamble Co. 19- Lieut, C.W.S, 18. 

 A.A : Chom. Soc. Dicyanodinmid. 



Vickery, Dr. Herman F(rank), 26 Chestnut St, 

 Brooklinc. Mass. Medicine. Rochester, N. Y, 

 Aug. 20. 56. A.B, Harvard, 78, M.D, 82 ; Leipzig 

 and Vienna, 82-83. Asst. clin.. med. Harvard, 

 84-90. instr, 90-16; visiting physician. Mass. 

 Gen. Hasp, 98-17; consulting physician, 17- 

 Emer. mem. Am. Physicians; Am. Med. Ass; 

 Boston Soe. Med. Sci ; Boston Soc. Med. Tmprov. 

 (pres. 15) ; Roylston Med. Soc. (pres, 87) ; Suf- 

 folk District Med. Soc. (pres, 16). Internal 

 medicine. 



Vickery, Il(oy) A(lbion), Bureau of Entomology, 

 San Antonio, Tex. Entomology. Mora. Minn, 

 March 15, 83. A.B, Minnesota, 06, A.M, 07. 



