The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-01

special investigation by him, and his concsusions
therein appear in two books. with which ne mas
enlarged the limit of botanical knowledge. he
and his brother Stanley were beth IN Onlna.
where their parents, natives of Indiana had
gone as miss ionaries
Prof Stanley Coulter, who is about thirty
years OF age has the chair of zoology in PURDUE
University. He graduated from Hanover
College and has penchant for botanical studies,
although his reputation as zoologist is high.
He is one OF the most promising Of the younger
generation of botansts.
Prof j. p D. John born in Indiana is devot-
ing his special study to astronomy. he holds
high place as a mathematician, and is director
of the Mckim Observatory at DePauw Univer-
sity. He is tireess worker and clear thinker.
and is making reputation astronomer
that will bring him to the front rank Of this
class of scientists
Prof. John c. Branner, of the State Univer-
sity, is geologist whose decisions are looked
upon conclusive Under an imperial commits
sion he made geological survey of Brazil, and
is now surveying Kansas, with authority from
that State He is a Tennesseean by BIRTH bus
his education came largely from an Indiana ms
titution.
OF Ohio origin is Prof T. c. Mendenhall. of
the Rose Polytechnic. an authority in physics.
He is known in all the academies of the old
world experimentalist whose successes
have done much to advance the science Prof.
Mendenhall is On enthusiast in the study of
seismoogy. In the American Academy the
membership is limited to 100, but that number
has never been reached. There ninety
members, though, and of these 'immortals" Prof.
Mendenhall is For six years he in
japan, whore he organized the imperial TECH
nical schools. He was also the chief of the
Signal Department of the United States.
Prof. 0. p. Jenkins. of DePauw. is noted for
his zeal, clearness and comprehensiveness of
learning in biology. Like the others named
he is young, only little way beyond his thir-
tieth year. He is an Indianian, with the bright
est future before him.
Prof. B. w. Everman, also an Indianian. is one
of the faculty at the State Normal School His
study is ornitholoey, in which he has high and
wide reputation He has written largely
American birds. and the American Ornitholog-
ical Association has assigned TO him the district
of Michigan and Indiana. in which to study the
migration of birds.
Amos w. Butler. OF Brookville, is the indis-
pensabe factor in the academy. He is au~en-
thusiast in science. and thoroughly versed in
birds and reptiles in which studias he divides
the honors with Prof o. P. Hay, of Butler
University. He is the academy's secretary; and
the accuracy with which he notes the proceed
ings aud the neatness with which he puts them
into form. are in keeping with his scholarly ap-
pearance.
Prof. C. S. Waldo, of the Rose Polytechnic. is
a mathematician, enthusiastic and progressive.
He has written some twenty FIVE books this
subject the latest, just issued being work on de-
scriptive geometry. All difficult and ncompre-
hensible problems 60 to him for solutions.
Maurice Thompson, the State Geologist, also
takes great interest in the academy, in which
he speaks of those studies that have given him q
national reputation as a writer and thinker.