The Indianapolis journal., 1890-08-20

WHO THEY ARE
Brief Sketches OF Some of the Noted Men
Identified with the Association
Professor w. lie Conte Stevens, physic
Is native of Georgia and graduate of the
University of South Carolina. He Taught
several years In the University of Virginia.
and subsequently, was called to the chair
of mathematics and physics in Packer
Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn. Besides
his class work he has invented various inn
proved forms of physical apparatus. He
Is the author of numerous scientific papers
and frequent contributor to technical
journals.
Samuel CALVIN, geologist. is native of
Scotland, but was educated in Iowa. He
served private during the war. and
subsequently became professor OF zoology
and structural zoology at the Iowa State
University. He is well known as writer
on that branch OF science.
Prof. A. G. Cook. of Michigan, a gradu-
ate of Harvard and professor of zoology
and entomology in the Agricultural Col
lege of Michigan, is recognized authority
In that field.
Prof. Wilbur o. Atwater. chemist. q na-
tive of New York, was educated at Yale
and at the Universities of Leipsic and Ber-
lin. Germany. He was professor of chem
istry in the University of East Tennessee,
and subsequently, III the State College of
Maine. he was also director of the Con-
necticut Agricultural Experiment Station.
His published papers are very numerous.
and have appeared in scientific journals OF
Europe as well as of this country.
Prof James III. Stafford, geologist was
born in Ohio, educated at the Ohio Uni
versity and at Yale College, and has been
connected with the University of Nash
vile. Tenn, since 1874. He has been State
Geologist of Tennessee for many years,
and was one of the Judges at the worlds
fair held in Philadelphia 1876. Professor
Stafford is widely known by his writings In
scientific circles of this and other countries.
Prof. Alexander Winchell, geologist, was
born and educated in New York, and after
teaching several years in the South was
called, In 1854, TO the chair of physics and
civil engineering in the University of
Michigan, and later to the chair of geol-
ogy. zoology and botany. He conducted q
geological survey of Michigan. In 1879 he
was called TO the chair of geology and
palsontSlogy in the the University @ OF Mishi, NJ ,hs
author of about two hundred works. treat
lses and papers on geological subjects.
Among the vice. presidents of the associa-
tion during the last year. Prof. Henry S.
Carhart. physicist. is native of New York.
and studied at the University of Yale.
Harvard and Berlin. After teaching for
sity. at Evanston, ILL.,. he became, In 1886.
professor of physics at the University OF
Michigan. He was a member of the inter
national jury of award at the electrical ex-
hibition In Paris, and is the author of var
ious scientific papers.
DIR. Charles A. White, of Washington,
ID. c., is native of Massachusetts,, and has
been State Geologist of Iowa. professor of
natural history in the Iowa State Univers-
ty and also In Bowdoin University Maine.
Since 1874 he has been connected with
United States geographical and geological
surveys and with the scientific depart
ment of the Smithsonian Institution. He is
the author OF numerous scientific papers
and recognized authority I'm paleOntology
and fossil life throughout the world.
DR.. George L. Goodale, botanist, is
native of Maine and graduate of Amherst.
After practicing medicine several years.
and becoming noted as q lecturer. he was
called to the chair of natural science and
applied chemistry in Bowdoin. In 1872 he
became instructor in botany and lecturer
on vegetable physiology IN Harvard:
In 1873 he became professor of
botany. and later member of Harvard
College council. Besides various memoirs
on botanical subjects. DR.. Goodale has pub
lished Wild Flowers of North America"
Vegetable Physiology" Vegetable His
tology,D and other works. He is the new
N a
Gen. Garrick Mallery, ethnologst, is
native of Pennsy lvania and graduate of
Yale. was educated for the bar, entered the
Union army at the beginning of the war
and served till the close, being four times
brevetted for Gallantry in action. He rem
dered valuable service in the South during
the reconstTnction sS r period; AN, and after,
Bureau. While In Dakota he made close
study of the photographs and mythologies
of the Dakota Indians. and was subsequent
1y appointed chief of the Bureau of Ethnol-
ogy in Washington, which position he now
holds. de has contributed largely to peri
odical literature and written several works
on chronological subjects, some of which
have been translated into foreign Ian
guagee.
Among the newly elected vice-presidents
of the association, Prof. Cleveland Able,
moteOEOlOSlbt, was UOru anu eQu-
Gated in New York, studied as
tronomy at Cambridge, Mass, and
in Europe. was for several years
director of the Cincinnati Observatory,
and In 1871 became connected with the
Weather bureau at Washington. Prof
Abbe is the original "Old Probabilities"
: and is known throughout the scientific
world as a master of meteOrOlogy.
Prof. r. b. Warder, chemist, is q native
of Ohio and graduate of Earlham College,
Indiana, and of the Lawrence Scientific
School of Harvard. From 1888 to 1887 he
was State Chemist of Indiana, and for a
few years past has resided in Washington.
He is frequent contributor to scientific
journals.
Prof. Charles s. Minot. biologist, is ma
tive of Massachusetts,, graduate of the
Institute of Technology, and after studying
In Europe several years. received his doc
torate at Harvard. In 1880 he became lect-
urer on embry yology in Harvard medical
school. and instructor in oral pathology
and surgery. In 1888 he was made assist
ant professor of histology and embryology
IN that institution. He has written copi-
ously on biological subjects. and is rec0g-
nized authority in that branch of science.
Prof. Ira Remsen. of Johns Hopkins Uni
versty. the discoverer of saccharin. the