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LYMAN

Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama to collect statis- tics of the iron manufacture for the American Iron association. He was assistant to Professor James Hall on the state geological survey of

Iowa in 1858, and as- sisted Mr. Lesley in private geological work in 1859. He studied at the Paris Mining school, 1859- 61, and at the Frei- berg Mining acade- my, 1861-62. He was occupied in geolog- ical work at Cape Breton, N.S., 1863-65, and in Pennsylvania, California (going by Q •.Zj.t-/^ way of Panama and

o^t^^^^^^^^^^^^^-^^ft^ returning by over- land stage in 1864), Virginia, Alabama, Illinois and on tlie Labrador Coast, 1862-69. He was employed by the British government to make surveys of oil fields in India, 1869-71. He received a patent on an application of the solar compass to the surveying transit in 1871. He resided in Philadelphia, Pa., 1871-72; making surveys in "West Virginia and elsewhere ; made a geological survey of the island of Yesso for the Colonization board of the Japanese gov- ernment, 1873-75, and a geological survey of the oil fields of Japan for the home department and later the public works department, 1878-79. He returned to America at the end of 1880, resided in Northampton, Mass., and was engaged in geo- logical surveys in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nova Sco- tia, Colorado and New Mexico. He made a survey of Bucks and Montgomery counties for the Pennsylvania state geological survey ; and in 1887 he removed to Philadelphia. He was elected a member of many learned societies in- cluding the Geological Society of France, the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; the American Philosopliical society ; the Asiatic Society of Bengal, the German Geo- logical society ; the American Institute of Min- ing Engineers ; the American Oriental society ; the Asiatic Society of Japan ; the German East Asiatic society ; the American Folk-Lore so- ciety ; the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia and the National Geographic society. He is the au- thor of : Telescopic Measurement in Surveying (1868) ; General Report on the Punjab Oil Lands (1870); Topography of the Punjab Oil Region (1871); General Report on the Geology of Yesso (1877); Character of the Japanese (1885); Report on the New Boston and Morea Coal Lands (1889) ; A7i Old Japanese Foot Measure (1890) ; Japanese

Swords (1892). He also contributed to scientific magazines and the transactions of learned socie- ties and published reports and articles which in 1901 had formed a bibliography of upwards of 100 separate titles covering his progress in geological researcli.

LYMAN, Chester Smith, physicist, was born in Manchester, Conn., Jan. 13, 1814. He was a student of astronomy while a boy, constructing apparatus, computing almanacs and making tables of eclipses without a teacher, 1830-31. He graduated from Yale in 1837, taught school in Ellington, Conn., 1838-39 ; and studied theology at the Union Theological seminary. New York. 1889- 40 and at Yale Theological seminary, 1840-42. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Feb. 15, 1843, and was pastor at New IJritain, Conn., 1843-45. He visited the Sandwich Islands in 1846, had charge of the Royal school at Hono- lulu for four months and made explorations to the volcano Kilauea, and established new theories as to the cause of volcanic eruptions. He en- gaged in surveying in California, 1847-50, during which time he furnished early authentic reports of the discovery of gold. He removed to New Haven,' Conn., in 1850, where he had charge of the scientific terms in the revision of *' Webster's Dictionary," 1850-58. He was professor of indus- trial mechanics and physics and instructor in theoretical and practical astronomy in the Slief- field scientific school of Yale college, 1859-71 ; professor of astronomy and physics, 1871-84 ; professor of astronomy, 1884-89, and emeritus professor, 1889-90. He invented a combined zenith telescope and transit for latitude, longitude and time in 1852 ; an apparatus for illustrating the dynamics of ocean waves in 1867 and an ap- paratus for describing acoustic curves in 1871. He was the first to observe the planet Venus as a delicate luminous ring when seen in close prox- imity to the sun near inferior conjunction. He was president of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1857-77, and an honorary member of the British Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. The honorary degree of M.A. was conferred on him by Beloit college. Wis., in 1864. He is the author of numerous papers for the leading scientific magazines. He died in New Haven, Conn., Jan. 29, 1890.

LYflAN, Daniel, jurist, was born in Durham, Conn., Jan. 27, 1756 ; son of Thomas and Anne (Mer- win) Lyman, grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth Lyman, and a descendant of Richard Ly- man, a native of Essex county, England, who emi- grated to America with his family in 1631, and settled first in Charlestown, Mass., and in 1635 in Hartford, Conn. Daniel was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1776, A.M., 1779, and in 1775 served as captain in the expedition against Ticonderoga,