Secretary's Report, Volume 6

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Page 132 - Branscomb is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society...
Page 217 - ... member of the Boston Stock Exchange, and senior partner of the firm of Hayward & Townsend. A few years ago he retired from active business and devoted himself to scientific pursuits. He was an ardent entomologist, and possessed a wonderful collection of beetles and an excellent scientific library. He was a member of the Boston Society of Natural History, which he joined when a boy, and was treasurer of the Cambridge Entomological Club. He had classified several families of beetles, and published...
Page 32 - ... judge-advocate, of the grade of major; one inspector of small arms practice and ordnance officer, of the grade of major ; one quartermaster, of the grade of major ; one commissary of subsistence, of the grade of major ; one surgeon, of the grade of lieutenant-colonel ; one engineer, of the grade of major ; two aides-decamp, each of the grade of captain. Upon the application of a brigade commander, approved by the major-general...
Page 256 - The abdomen contains the bowels, of which there are five — a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y.
Page 30 - Quincy RR In 1891 he was appointed trainmaster in Providence for the Old Colony RR, and somewhat later, becoming agent, retained this position when the Old Colony was leased by the New York. New Haven and Hartford R. R. In 1894 he was made assistant superintendent of the Worcester division, and in June, 1899, he became superintendent. He married at Providence, Oct. 24, 1894, Ethel Raymond Mason, and she, with his two daughters, survives him. — On Nov. 14, TW Richards read a paper on " The Electro-chemical...
Page 54 - Philadelphia, at the same time attending lectures at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1888, and in the autumn after his admission began the practice of law in Philadelphia.
Page 104 - Company of Hartford, which position he held until his death. It may be fairly said that he was one of the most successful and respected men in his line of business in Chicago. At one time treasurer of the Chicago Board of Fire Underwriters, he also served upon many Committees of said Board. In all his business relations he was a man of the strictest integrity, and stood for the most honorable methods. He never married. He lived for several years prior to his death, in the winter, at the Lakota Hotel,...
Page 50 - Nine, and in his junior and senior years was a member of the University Nine. During his entire college course he was one of the most valued members of the University Glee Club.
Page 126 - He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Medical Association and Academy of Medicine, and has contributed to professional journals. The last few years he has lived abroad, and has largely given up practice. "In April, 1909...
Page 176 - ... as a matter of course, and in the years 1891 and 1892 Colonel Quinby served on the executive council, gaining valuable experience for the years to come and having large part in such important public works as the representation of the state in the Columbian Exposition at Chicago and the establishment of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in a new location at Durham.

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