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EMERSON, Benjamin Kendall, geologist, was born in Nashua. N.H., Dec. 20,1843; son of Benja- min Frothingham and Elizabeth (Kendall) Emer- son. He was graduated at Amherst in 1865; studied in Berlin, and at Gottingen where he took the degree of Ph.D. in 1869, and was assist- ant in the German geological survey in 1869. He made geolog- ical studies in Switz- erland, Saxony, Bo- hemia and Norway; was instructor in geology and zoology at Amherst, 1870-73, professor of those branches, 1872-88, and professor of mineral- ogy and geology from 1888. He was elected a member of the German geological society; the Appalachian club; the American philosophical society ; the American academy of arts and sciences; the Society of naturalists of eastern United States; and the National geo- graphical society. He was a vice-president of the American association for the advancement of science in 1896; vice-president of the geological congress at St. Petersburg in 1897 ; and president of the geological society of America in 1899. He was made assistant geologist of the U.S. geologi- cal survey in 1887. He was married, April 2, 1873, to Mary Annette, daughter of the Rev. Erastus and Charlotte Frelinghuysen (Allen) Hopkins. Her great^ grandmother was Esther, sister of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards; her ma- ternal grandfather was the Rev. William Allen, president of Bowdoin college, and among her maternal ancestors were Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth college, the Rev. Thomas Allen of Pittsfield, known as the " fighting parson," and William Bradford, the second gov- ernor of Plymouth colony. Mrs. Emerson died at Amherst, Mass., July 31, 1897. Of their chil- dren, Charlotte Frelinghuysen was graduated A.B., Smith, 1895; Benjamin Kendall was gradu- ated A.B., Amherst, 1897, and M.D.. Harvard, 1898; and Edward Hopkins was graduated A.B., Amherst, 1899. Professor Emerson is the author of monographs including: Geologtj of Old Hampshire County ; A Mineral Lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties in Massachusetts ; The Geol- ogy of Southwest Berkshire; and Geological Maps and Descriptions of Eastern Berkshire, Franklin, Hamp)shire, Hamjxlen and Worcester Counties, Mass., besides furnishing valuable contributions to geological knowledge to both European and American scientific journals.

EMERSON, Charles Franklin, educator, was born in Chelmsford, Mass. , Sept. 28, 1843 ; son of Owen and Louisa (Butterfield) Emerson; and grandson of Owen and Mary Emerson and of Capt. Jolin Butterfield. He worked on a farm, attended school winters and taught school to earn his way through college. He prepared for college at Westford, Mass., academy, and at Appleton academy. New Ipswich, N.H., and was graduated at Dartmouth. A.B., 1868, A.M., 1871. He was instructor in mathematics in the New Hampshire college of agriculture and mechanic arts, 1868-74; tutor in mathematics and in- sti'uctor in gymnastics at Dartmouth, 1868-72; associate professor of natural philosophy and mathematics, 1872-78; Appleton professor of natural philosophy and instructor in astronomy, 1878-93 ; Appleton professor of physics from 1893. and dean of the faculty from 1893. He was elected a member of the American association for the advancement of science in 1873 and a fellow in 1874. He was married, Jan. 20, 1875, to Caroline, daughter of Timothy Flagg of North Chelmsford, Mass. His contributions to agri- cultural and scientific literature, continued ir- regularlj' for over thirty years.

EMERSON, Edward Waldo, author, was born in Concord, Mass., July 10, 1844; son of Ralph Waldo and Lydia (Jackson) Emerson. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1866, M.D., 1874; practised medicine in Concord, 1875-85, and in 1886 became the instructor in art anatomy at the School of drawing and painting, Mviseum of fine arts, Boston. He also achieved success as a lecturer and painter. He published : Emerson in Concord. A 3Iemoir (1888) and A Correspondence between John Sterling and Balph Waldo Emerson, With a Sketch of the Life of Sterling (1897).

EMERSON, Ellen Russell, author, was born in New Sharon, Maine, Jan. 16, 1837; daughter of Dr. Leonard White and Fanny Fisk (Lovejoy) Russell. She was educated under the tutorship of Dr. Robert Cushman, principal of the Mount Vernon seminary, Boston, Mass. She was mar- ried in 1863 to Edwin R. Emerson of Portland, Maine. She travelled in Europe from 1886 to 1889, and in 1887 studied Egyptology in Paris under the direction of M. Gaston Maspero. In 1888 she was elected an honorary member of the Societe des Americanistes de France. In 1893 she received a medal from the Junta Directiva, Columbian historical exposition, Madrid, Spain. She published: Indian 3fyths: or Legends, Tradi- tions and Symbols of the Aborigines of America, com- pared roith those of Other Countries, including Hin- doostan, Egypt, Persia, Assyria, and China (1884) ; and 3Iasks, Heads and Faces. With some considera- tion respecting the Eise and Development of Art (1891).