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thought. The laboratories are well equipped with compound micro- 

 scopes and microtomes of modern construction, together with incuba- 

 tors and other necessary adjuncts for instruction and research. 



The "Journal of Comparative Neurology," now in its eighth vol- 

 ume, is published quarterly from the department of Zoology, and af- 

 fords an avenue of publication for the researches conducted in the neu- 

 rological laboratory. 



Will H. Bouohton, C.E., Instructor in Mathematics and Nat- 

 ural Science, was born at Bowling Cireen, O., May 24th, 1867. He 

 received his early education in the public schools of Norwalk, Ohio. 



From 1889 to 1891 he attended Denison University. In 1893 he 

 graduated with the degree B.S. from the Civil Engineering Course of 

 the University of Michigan and has since earned the second degree of 

 Civil Engineer by graduate work in the same institution. 



In engineering work he has been employed as Assistant Engineer 

 Maintenance of Way for the C. C. C. & St. L. Ry., St. Louis Division; 

 Structural Draftsman for the New Jersey Steel and Iron Company, 

 Trenton, N. J. ; Pittsburg Bridge Company, Pittsburg, Pa. ; Brown 

 Hoisting and Conveying Machine Company, Cleveland, Ohio. In 1894 

 he was elected to his ])resent position as Assistant in the department of 

 Mathematics under Professor J. L. Oilpatrick. 



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CoLVER H. McNeil, Instructor in Chemistry and Physics was 

 born October 2d, 1866, near Winchester, Adams County, Ohio. He 

 attended country school and completed the High School course at Win- 

 chester. After spending some months in the study of anatomy and 

 ])hysiology with a physician, he taught for the next five years in the 

 public schools and in North Liberty Academy. Two summers were 

 si)ent in attendance upon a Teachers' Normal School. In 1893 he en- 

 tered Denison University and graduated with the degree of B.S. in 

 1896. During the summer of that year he pursued special work in 

 chemistry at Harvard University and in the fall entered upon his duties 

 as assistant to Professor A. I). Cole in Chemistry and Physics. 



