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*Lane, Jonathan Homer, elected in 1872, mathemati- 

 cian, assistant on the United States Coast Survey, with 

 charge ot Bureau of Weights and Measures. 



Langley, Samuel Pierpont, elected in 1876, astrono- 

 mer, in charge of the Observatory in Allegheny City, 

 and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Le Conte, John, elected in 1878, physicist, Professor 

 of Physics, and in 1870-'81 President of the Univer- 

 sity of California. 



*Le Conte, John Lawrence, original member, natural- 

 ist,regarded as the greatest entomologist that this coun- 

 try has ever produced ; his specialty was coleoptera. 



'Le Conte, Joseph, elected in 1875, geologist, Professor 

 of Geology and Natural History in the University ot 

 California" and author of several works on evolution. 



Leidy, Joseph, elected in 1884, naturalist, Director of 

 the Department of Biology at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, also Professor of Anatomy there. 



Lesley, J, Peter, original member, geologist, Director 

 of the State Survey of Pennsylvania, and regarded as 

 the chief authority in the United States on the coal 

 measures of North America. 



*Lesquereux, Leo, elected in 1864, botanist, highest 

 American authority on mosses and fossil botany, Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio. 



Longstreth, Meirs Fisher, original member, astrono- 

 mer, in charge of the Friends' Observatory in Phila- 

 delphia, and now practicing physician in Sharon Hill, 

 Pa. 



*Loomis, Elias, elected in 1873, mathematician, Pro- 

 fessor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at Yale 

 University, New Haven, Conn., and author of text- 

 books. 



Levering, Joseph, elected in 1873, physicist. Professor 

 of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and Director 

 of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Cambridge, Mass., now emeritus. 



Lyman, Theodore, elected in 1872, naturalist, Commis- 

 sioner of Inland Fisheries of Massachusetts, and as- 

 sistant at the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Har- 

 vard University. 



*Mahan, Denis Hart, original member, engineer. Pro- 

 fessor of Engineering at 'the United States Military 

 Academy at West Point, N. Y., author of many text- 

 books. 



*Marsh, George Perkins, elected in 1866, philologist, 

 authority on Scandinavian languages and long United 

 States minister to Italy. 



Marsh, Othniel Charles, elected in 1874, paleontolo- 

 gist, Professor of Paleontology at Yale University and 

 discoverer of more than 1,000 new species of extinct 

 vertebrates. 



Mayer, Alfred Marshall, elected in 1872, physicist, 

 Professor of Physics at the Stevens Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Hoboken, N. J. 



*Meek. Fielding Bradford, elected in 1870, paleontolo- 

 gist, authority on the invertebrate paleontology of Il- 

 linois, Ohio, California, and the Kocky Mountain re- 

 gion. 



Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham, elected in 1865, quar- 

 termaster-general, with the rank of brigadier-general 

 in the United States army, architect of various Gov- 

 ernment buildings in Washington, D. C. 



Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin, elected in 1887, physicist, 

 Superintendent of United States Coast Survey. 



Michaels, Arthur, elected in 1889, chemist, formerly 

 Professor of Organic Chemistry at Clark University, 

 Worcester, Mass., now investigating independently in 

 England. 



Michelson, Alhert Abraham, elected in 1888, physicist, 

 Professor of Physics at Clark University, Worcester, 

 Mass., and the author of a brilliant research on the 

 velocity of light. 



Mitchell, Henry, elected in 1885, hydrographer, assist- 

 ant on the United States Coast Survey, and has served 

 on Government commissions to examine the principal 

 harbors on the Atlantic coast. 



Mitchell, Silas Weir, elected in 1865, physician, ac- 

 cepted as an authority on questions of physiology, 

 toxicology, and nervous diseases, and author of scien- 

 tific works, novels, children's books, and poems. 



*Morgan, Lewis Henry, elected in 1875, anthropolo- 

 gist. His studies concerning Indian life and customs 

 gained for him the title of " Father of American An- 

 thropology." 



Morse, Edward Sylvester, elected in 1876, naturalist, 

 formerly Professor of Zoology at the University of 

 Tokio, Japan, and now Director of the Peabody Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences, Salem, Mass. 



Morton, Henry, elected in 1874, physicist, Presi- 

 dent of Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, 



N. J. 



Newberry, John Strong, original member, geologist, 

 Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the Colum- 

 bia College School of Mines and formerly State Ge- 

 ologist of Ohio, but now connected with the national 

 survey as expert on special subjects. 



Fewcomb, Simon, elected in 1869, astronomer, senior 

 active Professor of Mathematics in the United States 

 navy, and in charge of the .office of the "American 

 Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac." 



TTewton, Hubert Anson, original member, mathema- 

 tician, Professor of Mathematics at Yale University 

 and accepted authority on meteorites. 



Newton, John, elected in 1876, engineer, late chief of 

 the United States Corps of Engineers, with the rank 

 of brigadier-general and holding the brevet rank of 

 major-general in the United States army, commanded 

 First Corps of the Army of the Potomac at Gettys- 

 burg, and was Commissioner of Public Works in New 

 York city. 



*Norton, William Augustus, elected in 1873, engineer, 

 graduated at the United States Military Academy, and 

 from 1852 till his death Professor of Civil Engineer- 

 ing at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Univer- 

 sity. 



Oliver, James Edward, elected in 1872, mathemati- 

 cian, head professor in charge of the Department of 

 Mathematics at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., 

 and author of text-books. 



Packard, Alpheus Spring, elected in 1872, entomolo- 

 gist, Professor of Zoology and Geology at Brown Uni- 

 versity, Providence, K. I., and one ot the founders of 

 the Peabody Academy of Natural Sciences. 



Peirce, Charles Sanders, elected in 1877, physicist, 

 assistant on fhe United States Coast Survey, and has 

 held lectureships on logic at Harvard and Johns Hop- 

 kins Universities. 



*Peters, Christian Henry Frederick, elected^ in 1876, 

 astronomer, Professor of Astronomy at Hamilton Col- 

 lege and Director of the Litchfield 'Observatory, Clin- 

 ton, N. Y. He discovered forty-three asteroids. 



Pickering, Edward Charles, elected in 1873, astrono- 

 mer, Professor of Astronomy and Geodesy and Di- 

 rector of the Observatory of Harvard University, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



*Pourtales, Louis Francois de, elected in 1874, natu- 

 ralist, assistant in charge of the tidal division of the 

 United States Coast Survey ard assistant in zoology 

 at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Powell, John Wesley, elected in 1880, geologist, Di- 

 rector of the Geographical and Geological Survey of 

 the Rocky Mountain region 2 and since 1881 Director 

 of the United States Geological Survey. 



Pumpelly, Eaphael, elected in 1872, geologist, former- 

 Iv State Geologist of Missouri, of the Transcontinen- 

 tal Survey of the Northern Pacific Railway, and now 

 of the United States Geological Survey. 



Putnam, Frederick Ward, elected in 1885, naturalist, 

 Curator of the Peabody Museum of American Archae- 

 ology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Mass., and Perma- 

 nent Secretary of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science since 1873. 



Eemsen, Ira, elected in 1882, chemist, Professor of 

 Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University and 

 editor of the " American Chemical Journal." 



*Bodgers, John, original member naval officer, com- 

 manded the North Pacific and China Seas Expedition 

 in 1852-'55, served through the civil war, was com- 

 missioned rear-admiral, and had charge of the United. 

 States Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C. 



