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Memorial Addresses. 
JAMES CLARK FOYE. 
James Clark Foye was born in Great Falls, New Hampshire, 
March 1, 1841, and graduated from Williams College in 1863. 
The next year he was Professor of Natural Sciences in the Cin¬ 
cinnati Wesleyan College, and for twenty-six years Professor of 
Chemistry and Physics in Lawrence University, Appleton, 
Wis. During twelve years of his stay at the latter institution 
he acted also as vice-president and fiscal agent. During these 
years, having already earned the degree of Master of Arts, from 
Williams College, he received the degrees of Doctor of Philos¬ 
ophy from De Pauw University and that of Doctor of Laws from 
Lawrence University. 
Being always a student as well as instructor, he published 
the results of his study and practical investigations in three 
volumes: Chemical Problems; Table for the Determination and 
Classification of Minerals; Handbook of Mineralogy. These 
books were afterward revised and enlarged. In 1892 the fourth 
edition of the last named work was issued. He left Lawrence in 
1893 when the Armour Institute of Technology was opened in 
Chicago and accepted the position of Director of the Depart¬ 
ment of Chemistry in the latter institution. He continued in 
active service until the day of his death, which was very sud¬ 
den, July 3, 1896. 
Chicago , 111 . Janette W. Foye. 
WAYLAND SAMUEL AXTELL. 
Wayland Samuel Axtell was born in Union, Rock Co., Wis., 
June 18, 1862. He was a member of the first graduating class 
of the Evansville High School. For two years after gradua¬ 
tion he was engaged in teaching, his chosen work for life, and 
then entered Beloit College, from which he graduated with high 
honors. 
After spending two years as principal of the high school in 
Burlington, Wis., he was called to the principalship of the Be- 
