BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX 



Ferrel, Professor William, iii, 200. Born in 

 Pennsylvania, 1817; died at Maywood, Kansas, 

 1891. American meteorologist. Made impor- 

 tant contributions to the science. Invented the 

 maxima- and minima-tide-predicting machine, 

 which has been in use for many years in the 

 Government Coast Surveys. 



Ferrier, Dr. David, iv, 273. Born at Aberdeen, 

 1843. Scottish neurologist. Educated, Scotland 

 and at Heidelberg. 1872, Professor of Neuro- 

 pathology, Kings College, London. Has great- 

 ly increased our knowledge of the functions and 

 diseases of the brain. 



Field, Cyrus W., viii, 30. Born at Stock- 

 bridge, Mass., Nov. 30, 1819; died at New York, 

 July 12, 1892. He founded the Atlantic Tele- 

 graph Company which laid the first successful 

 Transatlantic cable. 



Fitch, John, vii, 63. Born at Windsor, Conn., 

 Jan. 21, 1743; died (committed suicide), Bards- 

 town, Ky., July 2, 1798. American inventor. He 

 built various types of steamboats of his own 

 inventing, the first in 1787. These boats were 

 of no practical value, but marked steps in the 

 advancement toward Fulton's crowning achieve- 

 ment. 



Fizeau, Hippolyto Louis, viii, 228. Born at 

 Paris, 1819; died at Nanteuil, 1896. French 

 physicist. 1839, began researches to make 

 daguerreotypes permanent. Devised apparatus 

 for measuring velocity of light (1856), and won 

 prize of 10,000 francs. 



Flourens, Marie Jean Pierre, iv, 270. Born at 

 Maureilhan, Herault, 1794; died at Montgeron, 

 1867. French physiologist. Educated at Mont- 



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