SECOND EDITION 



AMERICAN MEN OF SCIENCE 



A BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY 

 EDITED BY J. HcKEEN CATTELL 



A Biographical directory require* revision if it is to maintain Us usefulness. Nearly a third of the names in the 

 i rw wrt edtti n are new, and the sketches which appeared in the first division have in neaHy every case been revised. The 

 mhos been as great as that given to the first edition. There has been no 



iter strictness hat been observed in confining its scope to the natui 



~, and for this reason a few names included in the first edition have been omitted. Marts hi 



make the book as complete and accurate as possible. There are of course omissions, if only because 

 reply even to repeated requests for the information needed. . The thousand leading men of science hart been a 

 by the methods that were used before, and stars have been added to the subjects of 



i places on the list. The editor's object in selecting this group of scientific men has been to make a study q 

 ■t on which scientific research depends and so far as may be to improve these conditions. 2 here are printed W 

 : the two statistical studies that have been made.— From the Preface to the Second Edition. 

 ond edition of the Direotory extends to more than 600 pages and oontains more thai 

 rinted on all rag paper and bound in buckram with leather label. Although the 

 i size by more than 50 per oent., it ia sold at the same price as the first edition. 



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