Richmond Mayo-Smith. 



1854-1901. 



Richmond Mayo-Smith was born in Troy, Ohio, February 

 9, 1854, and died in New York City November 11, 1901. He 

 was graduated at Amherst College, and then studied for two 

 years in the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany, 

 receivincr the degree of Ph.D. for his advanced studies. On 

 his return to the United States he was called in 1877 to Colum- 

 bia University, where 'he served as a tutor for one year, and 

 then from 1878 to 1883, was Adjunct Professor of History and 

 Political Science, becoming in 1883 Professor of Political 

 Economy and Social Science, which chair he held until his 

 death. Dr. Mayo-Smith was associated in the work of the 

 census of Massachusetts of 1885, and was a member of the 

 American Economic Association, on many of the committees of 

 which he was active, and he contributed largely to its publi- 

 cations. He was an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical 

 Society of Great Britain, and in 1890 was chosen to member- 

 ship*in the National Academy- of Sciences. Besides being a 

 member of the Board of Editors of the Political Science ^lar- 

 tcrly, he was the author of "Emigration and Immigration" (New 

 York, 1890), " Statistics and Sociology" (1895) and " Statistics 

 and Economics" (1899). 



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