Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Technique Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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VC.v ' . CX i:.- U .-. HENRY SMITH PRITCHETT, Ph.D., LL.D., President. Ph.D., Munich; LL.D., Hamilton, University of Pennsyl- vania, Harvard University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins; A.B. and A.M., Pritchett College. »srPresident of the Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology; Made Assistant Professor in the Naval Observatory, Wash- ington, 1878; Astronomer in Morrison Observatory, Glasgow, Mo., 1880; Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in Wash- ington University, St. Louis, Mo., 1881; Assistant Astronomer on Transit of Venus Commission, 1882; Professor of Astronomy in Washington University, 1884; Elected President of the Academy of Science, St. Louis, 1892; Made a Ph.D. in Munich. i8p, ' 5: Chosen Superintendent of the U. S. r,. and C. Survey, 1897; President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1900. Report on Observations of the Total Eclipse of July 29, 1878; Determination of the Rotation Period of Jupiter from Observations of the Great Red Spot; Observations of the Satellites of Mars; Observations of Conjunctions of the Satellites of Saturn; A De- termination of the Mass of Mars; A Determination of the Diame- ter of Mars from Micrometric Observations, with a Discussion of Systematic Errors; Ephemeris of the Satellites of Mars; Observa- tions of Comets; Determination of the Longitude of the Mexican National Observatory; The Transit of Mercury, 1891 ; Report of Washington Universitv Eclipse Expedition; The Solar Carona of 1889 with Discussions of the Photographs 1 illustrated ) ; Report on the Determination of Latitude and Longitude Morrison Observatory; A Formula for Predicting the Population of the United States; Ob- servations of Double Stars and Personal Equation in Double Star Measure ; Eclipses of Saturn ' s Satellites and Their Use in Determining the Planet ' s Diameter (with tablesi ; Personal Equation in Time Ob- servations; List of Observations of Double Stars, Comets and Small Planets in the Ast. Nachrichten, and a large number of publications in various Government Reports containing the results of Latitude, Longitude and Gravity determinations. Meridian Circle Observations, etc.; A Plan for an International Arc of the Meridian. Residence, 9 Roseland Street GEORGE A. OSBORNE, S.B., Walker Professor of Mathe- matics. Harvard S.S., ' 60. «rAssistant Professor of Mathematics, U. S. Naval Academy, 1861- 6s; Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy, from 1866; Secretary of Faculty, 1868-71; Walker Professor of Mathematics, from 1902. Author of Examples in Differential Equations (i886 . Differential and Integral Calculus (iSqi), etc. Residence, 249 Berkeley Street