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All rights reserved. Biographical Memoirs V.73 http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9650.html CONTENTS v Contents riginal paper book, not from the from not book, paper riginal the authoritative version for attribution. for version authoritative the PREFACE vii ing-specific formatting, however, cannot cannot be however, formatting, ing-specific CHARLES GREELEY ABBOT 3 BY DAVID H. DEVORKIN CARL DAVID ANDERSON 25 BY WILLIAM H. PICKERING WILLIAM OSGOOD AYDELOTTE 41 BY ALLAN G. BOGUE AND GILBERT WHITE FRANK AMBROSE BEACH 65 BY DONALD A. DEWSBURY WALKER BLEAKNEY 87 BY GEORGE T. REYNOLDS JAMES FREDERICK BONNER 101 BY FRANK B. SALISBURY RODNEY LEE COOL 129 BY ROBERT K. ADAIR LOUIS BARKHOUSE. FLEXNER 151 BY JAMES M. SPRAGUE About this PDF file: This new digital representation of the original work has been recomposed from XML files created from the o the from created files XML from recomposed been has work original the of representation digital new This file: PDF this About other typesett and styles, heading breaks, word lengths, line original; to are the true breaks Page files. typesetting original as print of Please publication version inserted. this the use been accidentally errors have may typographic and some retained, Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Biographical Memoirs V.73 http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9650.html CONTENTS vi REYNOLD CLAYTON FUSON 167 BY PETER BEAK, DAVID Y. CURTIN, AND DAVID A. LIGHTNER CHARLES ROY HENDERSON 183 BY L. 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In accordance with that ing-specific formatting, however, cannot cannot be however, formatting, ing-specific original charter, the Academy is a private, honorary organization of scientists, elected for outstanding contributions to knowledge, who can be called upon to advise the federal government. As an institution the Academy's goal is to work toward increasing scientific knowledge and to further the use of that knowledge for the general good. The Biographical Memoirs, begun in 1877, are a series of volumes containing the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased members of the Academy. Colleagues
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