University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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scholarships worth upwards of $3000. After graduating as Doc- tor of Science, he was appointed the University Examiner for Degrees in the department of Mathematics and Physics, which position he held until called to the University of Texas. His doctor ' s thesis was On the Disruptive Discharge of Electricity, which, together with subsequent researches on the same subject, were published by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. These pa- pers contained important discoveries which have been verified by subsequent experimenters. On account of these researches, he was, at a very early age, elected a Fellow of the Royal So- ciety of Edinburgh. While examiner, he published a book entitled Principles of the Algebra of Logic, and a number of papers on the Analysis of Re- lationship; these now form an integral part of the modern math- ematical logic. Just before coming to the University of Texas, he published his Physical Arithmetic, and since then Eleme7itary Mathematical Tables. He received the degree of EL. D. from the University of Michigan in 1887, on the occasion of their semi- centennial. Recently, he has published six memoirs on mathe- matical physics, and has read before scientific bodies three others which are not yet published. These papers have been discussed in the leading scientific journals of America; and they have al- ready taken their place in the history of analysis. A set of wire models, made to illustrate this subject, was exhibited at the World ' s Fair, and received a medal and diploma for their orig- inality and ingenuity. He is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engin- eers, and has contributed several papers to their Trajisactions. He is the Honorary Secretary of the Texas Academy of Science, and was recently elected a corresponding member of the Sociedad Scie7itijic Antonio Alzate ' of Mexico. GEORGE P. GARRISON. Professor George P. Garrison, who so ably fills the chair of History in the University of Texas, was born forty-one years ago. His long college career began at Sewanee College, Win- chester, Tennessee, and after spending four years there and at the Carroll Masonic Institute, Carrollton, Georgia, he pursued a

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gree of Doctor of Philosophy, and then lectured for some time on logic and mathematics in the Johns-Hopkins. In 1879, he was called to Princeton, where he was appointed Instructor in Post-Graduate Mathematics, and taught quaternions, determinants, etc. In 1884, Dr. Halsted was appointed Professor of Pure and Ap- plied Mathematics in the University of Texas. Since this time he has been engaged in arduous work and has contributed many important articles to numerous scientific journals. Among these may be mentioned, Boole ' s Logical Method, Statement and Re- duction of Syllogism in ihQ Journal of Speculative Philosophy, and the Bibliography of Hyper-Space a7id No7i- Euclidian Geometry in the America i Journal of Matheinatics . But the most important labors of our professor are his text- books and scientific treatises. In 1885 appeared his Metrical Geometry. The book is especially cited in the last edition of the Kncyclopsedia Britannica, and the article, Mensuration borrows largely from his book on that subject. It has already been adopted as a text-book in several colleges, and an English edition has been issued by MacMillan and Company. In 1885 he published his ' ' Elements of Geometry. In 1892, appeared the Elementary Synthetic Geometry, the first book to reach its results without making any use of of congruent triangles. In addition to these works we must mention his Non-Euclidian Geometry, the first English translation of the work of Nicholaus Lobatschewsky; The Science Absolute of Space, the first English translation of the work of John Bolyai, and his Num- ber, Discrete and Continuous, an Exposition of the Origin and Growth of the Number C oncepts. Dr. Halsted has now ready for the press Pure Projective Geometry, which is followed by a treatise on Projective Metrics. ALEXANDER MACFARLANE. Dr. Macfarlane was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he obtained the degree of M. A., with highest honors in mathematics and physics, in 1875; B. Sc. in 1877, and D. Sc. in 1878. While a student he won, by competitive exam- inations in Greek, I atin, mathematics and physics, prizes and

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two years course of study at the University of Edinburgh, where he fully equipped himself for his chosen profession. Coming to Texas in 1881, he was married, and shortly afterwards began teaching at San Marcos. Fortune seemed to smile upon the ef- forts of the young pedagogue, for, in 1884, he was appointed In- structor of English in the University of Texas, from which posi- tion he was rapidly promoted until appointed Associate Professor of History, the position he now fills. Not only is Professor Garrison eminently qualified for the chair of History by reason of his profound learning, but he is also one of the most popular members of the Faculty. Uniformly kind, considerate and encouraging, he is a general favorite of all with whom he comes in contact. THOMAS U. TAYLOR. Mr. Taylor was born in Parker county, Texas. His early student years were spent in his native State, but in 1883 he grad- uated at the University of Virginia, taking the degree of C. E. Immediately after graduation he was elected to take charge of Miller ' s Manual Labor School, in Virginia. Here he remained until he came to the University of Texas, in 1888, since which time he has been at the head of the School of Applied Mathe- matics. This year he has been granted leave of absence, and his place is filled by Mr. R. A. Thompson. THOMAS FITZ-HUGH. The subject of this sketch was born October 12, 1862, and received his first training in the schools of the neighborhood. He then entered the University of Virginia, and chose the course leading to the degree of Master of Arts. After remaining at that institution for two years, he accepted a position in Bing- ham ' s school, North Carolina, as instructor of Ancient Lan- guages. In the year following, he returned to the University of Virginia, and in that year completed his Master ' s course with the exception of philosophy, whereupon he received a call to the chair of Latin of Central University, Kentucky, which he ac- cepted and filled for one year, all the while arduously pursuing in private his studies in philosophy. And thus alternately