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Tuttle, Albert Henry, born at Cuyahoga I-alls, -Summit county, Ohio, November 19, 1844, son of Henry Blakeslee Tuttle and Fmeline Reed, his wife. His father was a successful merchant of Cuyahoga Falls, from whence he removed to Cleveland. Cliio, in 1852. He was a pupil in the Cleve- land High school, the Cleveland Institute, and the State College of Pennsylvania, from which last he graduated B. S. and M. S., and later pursued post-graduate studies at Har- vard University from 1870 to 1872 and at Johns Hopkins University in 1882-83. He was a teacher of natural science in the State Normal School at Plattsville, Wisconsin, from 1868 to 1870; for the following two years was an instructor in microscopy in Harvard College ; then became professor of zoology and geology in the State College of Pennsylvania; was called to the chair of /.oology and comparative anatomy in the Ohio State University, served from 1873 to 1888, when he was elected professor of bi- ology in the University of Virginia. He has been a frequent contributor to scientific journals, and is the author of an "Introduc- tion to the Study of Bacteria," (1895), and "Elements of Histology" (1898). He en- listed as a private in the Eighth Battery of the Ohio National Guard, U. S. A., for three months' service during the war between the states. Prof. Tuttle married in Paris, France, August 7, 1873. Kate .Austin Seeley ; three children.

Humphreys, Milton Wylie, born in Greenbriar county, Virginia (now West Virginia). September 15, 1844, son of Dr. Andrew C. Humphreys and Mary McQuain Hefner, his wife, who was of German de- scent. Dr. Humphreys was also a justice of

the peace, and a lieutenant-colonel in the militia. Samuel Humphreys was the first member of this family to come to America, from his native land, Ireland, and he first settled in Pennsylvania prior to the revolu- tion, and thence removed to Greenbriar county. The maternal American ancestor was Jacob Hefner, who came prior to the revolutionary struggle, and was killed while in the continental army. Prof. Humphrevs studied in private schools, and entered Washington College, but the civil war broke out and he enlisted, was corporal of artillery and served four years. At the close of the war he resumed his studies at Washington College, and was graduated Master of Arts in 1869, becoming a tutor in Latin, and later assistant professor of ancient languages. He then continued his studies at the universities of Berlin and l.tipsic, the last mentioned conferring the ucgrce of Doctor of Philosophy. Elected professor of Greek at the Vanderbilt I ni- \ersity in 1875: professor of ancient lan- guages in the University of Texas in 1S83; and professor of Greek at the Uni\ ersity of \irginia in 1887. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by Vander- bilt University in 1883: was made editor- general for North .America of the "Revue des Revues," of Paris, France, about the srme time: subsequently chosen to prepare the pa])er of Greek for the Witrld's Con- p.ress of Science and .Arts at St. Louis; he was vice-president of the American Philo- logical Association from 1880 to 1882. and elected annual president in the last named year. In the first years of his research work. Prof. Humphreys published a work upon Greek meters; he has written many articles which have been published in ])hilological