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FERRERO

FERREE, Barr, art critic, was born in Phila- deljiliia, Pa. ; sou of Samuel Pattersou and Annie Appletou (Drown) Ferree, and grandson of James Barr Ferree. He was graduated from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, B.S. in 1884. He became an architect and was made an instructor in archi- tecture and president of the department of arcliitecture of the Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences in 1898. He was secretary of the National sculpture society: honorary and cor- responding member of the Royal institute of British architects; corresponding member of the Academie d'Aix-en-Provence of France, and also of the Societfi archeologique du Midi de la France, Toulouse, and the Societe archeologique d'Eureet-Cher, Chartres, France. He organized the Pennsylvania society of New York, and was made its first secretary. He became interested in popular movements in art and a writer and lecturer on art subjects.

FERRELL, William, meteorologist, was born in Bedford county, Pa., Jan. 29, 1817. He became interested in astronomy in his boyhood and could predict eclipses with almost absolute precision. By his own efforts he acquired a college educa- tion, studying at Franklin college for two years and receiving his degree from Bethany college, Va., in 18i4. He taught in Liberty, Mo., 1844-46; in Southern Kentucky, 1846-53 ; and in Nashville, Tenn., 1853-57. Meanwhile he devoted his leis- ure to the study of higher mathematics and astronomy and contributed occasionally to scientific periodicals. In 1857 he became assist- ant in the oflSce of the American Ephemeris ami Nautical Almanac, Cambridge, Mass. In 1867 he was appointed an assistant on the coast survey, having charge of the tidal observations, resign- ing in 1883 to accept the chair of meteorology in the signal office in Washington, D.C. The maxima and minima tidal-pi"edicting machine, described in Appendix No. 10 of the lieport of the Coast and Geodetic Survey of 1883 was invented by him. He was elected a member of the National academy of sciences in 1868; was an associate fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences, and an honorary member of the meteor- ological societies of Austria, London, ard Ger- many. He received the honorary degi'ees of A.M. and Ph.D. His published writings comprise over fifty papers, including ilotiimsof Fluids and Solids relative to the Earth's Surfai-r (lsr,!i); Ih-ter- mination of the Moon's Mass from TiiUil (ihsiyvations (1871) ; Converging Series Expressing the liatio be- tween the Diameter and the Circumference of a Circle (1871); Meteorological Researches: Part I., On the Mechanics and the General Motions of the Atmosphere {Wll). Part II., On Cyclones, Torna- does and Waterspouts (1888), and Part III., On Barometric Hypsumetry and the Reduction of the

Barometer to Sea Level (1882) ; Temperature of the Atmosphere and the Earth's Surface (1884) ; a text- book On the Recent Advances in Meteorology (1886) ; and A Bopular Treatise on the Winds (1889). He died in May wood, Kan., Sept. 18, 1891.

FERRERO, Edward, soldier, was born in Granada, Spain, Jan. 18, 1831. His parents were natives of Italy who emigrated to America in 1833. His father, an Italian patriot, was a friend of Argenti, Avozzana, Gariljaldiand others and entertained the political refugees from Italy at his home in New York city. Edward was educated in the public schools, and became teacher of dancing in the U.S. military academy and of private classes in New York. He was a member of the militia and in 1861 had attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In the summer of 1861 he recruited the 51st N Y. volunteer regi- ment at his own ex- Ijense and led it at the battles of Roanoke Island and Newbern, N.C. His conduct won for him the command of a brigade. At the second battle of Bull Run, Aug. 30, 1863, he greatly distinguished himself, and also in covering the retreat of Pope at Chantilly on the following day. He fought at South Mountain where after the death of Reno he commanded a brigade, and at Antietam where he received pro- motion to the rank of brigadier-general while on the battle-field, Sept. 17, 1862. He led 1700 men into the fight at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1803, and lost 570 in killed and wounded. He was ordered to the Mississippi, and at Vicksburg his brigade was part of the 9th army corps. He pursued Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, defeating him at Jackson, Miss., running up his brigade flag to the top of the staff on tlie dome of the state capitol. May 13, 1863, before it was fired. He was with Burnside at Knoxville where he com- manded a division during the siege, Nov. 17 to Dec. 4, 1863, and his defence of Fort Saunders, December 4, against an assault by Longstreet's veterans, compelled that commander to retii-e. He commanded a division of colored troops at Petersburg. He was brevetted major-general of volunteei's Dec. 2, 1864. and was mustered out Aug. 34, 1865. He conducted the Lenox lyceum in New York, and afterward was em|iloyed in the Metropolitan museum of art. He died in New York city, Dec. 11, 1899.