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of his profession in New York city. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Ingham uni- versity, 1884, and in 1888 fomided the Silver Lake Art school at Perry, N.Y. His canvases include: The Pillar of Fire; Mount San Jacinto, Califor- nia; Ruins of the Cathedral of San Juan Cap- istrano, California; The Noon-day Retreat; The Vale of Elms; Sn,ow-bound, and A Song of the Sea.

WILEY, Harvey Washington, chemist, was born in Kent, Ind., Oct. 18, 1844; son of Preston Pritchard and Lucinda Weir (Maxwell) Wiley; grandson of Joseph and Susan (Worthington) Wiley and of Samuel C. and Jenny (Tilford) Maxwell, and great-grandson of John Maxwell, who came from Scotland in 1747. He was grad- uated from Hanover college, A.B., 1867, A.M.,

1870, and from Indiana Medical college, M.D.,

1871, meanwhile serving as professor of Latin and Greek in Butler university, Irvington, Ind., 1868-71; taught science in the Indianapolis high school, 1872, and was graduated from Harvard, S.B., 1873. He was professor of chemistry in Butler university, 1873-74, and of agricultural chemistry in the Agricultural College of Indiana (Purdue university), 1874-83, and of chemistry in Indiana Medical college. 1873-77, studying chem- istry at the University of Berlin, 1878. He also served as state chemist of Indiana, 1881-83; was appointed chief of the bureau of chemistry in the U.S. department of a,griculture in 1883, a position he still held in 1903, and became professor of agricultural chemistry in the graduate school of Columbian university in 1895. He was unmar- ried. The honorary degree of Pli.D. was con- ferred upon him by Hanover in 1876, and that of LL.D. by the same college in 1899. He was vice- president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science-, with charge of the sec- tion of chemistry, 1886, ana in the same year, president of the Chemical society of Wasliington and of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, of which latter he became permanent secretary and executive officer, 1889; president of the American Chemical society, 1893-95, and a member of various other scientific organiza- tions. He was made an honorary member of the Franklin Institute; of the Federalist Institute of Brewing, of Great Britain, and of the American Brewing Institute. He was a member of the jury of awards of the Paris exposition, 1900, and a delegate from the United States to the inter- national congress of applied chemistry at Paris, 1896 and 1900, at Vienna, 1898 and at Berlin, 1903. He is the author of: Songs cf Agncultural Chem- ists (1892); Principles and Practice of Agricul- tural Chemistry (3 vols., 1894-97); also sixty gov- ernment bulletins, 213 scientific papers, and numerous magazine articles, addresses, etc.

WILEY, Isaac William, M.E. bishop, was born in Levvistown, Pa., March 29, 1825. He studied mathematics and the classics at Lewistown acad- emy; was licensed to preach, 1843; graduated M.D. from the medical department of the Uni- versity of the City of New York, 1844, and prac- tised in Lewistown, 1846-49. Accompanied by his wife, he went as a missionary to China, serv- ing as medical missionary to Fu-chau, China, 1850-54, where his wife died in 1853; joined the New Jersey conference, preaching, 1854-57; was principal of the seminary, Pennington, N.J., 1857-63; editor of The Ladies Repository, 1864-72, and served as bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, 1872-84. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him bj^ Dickinson, 1857; that of D.D. by Wesleyan, 1864, and LL.D. by Ohio Wesleyan, 1879. He edited "The Bible and Moslem Thought " by the Rev. Thomas R. Birks (1864); •' The Life and Work of Earnest Men " by the Rev. W. K. Tweedie (1864), and "Christ of the Gospels and Criticism " b}' Friedrich Tholuck (1865), and is the author of: The Fallen Mission- aries of Fu-chau {\8oS); Hoio We Got In, How to Get Out, lectures on the civil war (1864); Tlie Religion of the Family (1871); China and Japan (1878). He died while on an episcopal tour in China, at Fu-chau, in November, 1884.

WILKES, Charles, naval officer, was born in New York city, April 3, 1798. He was appointed a midshipman in the U.S. navy, Jan, 1,1818; Ijromoted lieutenant, April 28, 1826, and detailed to the department of charts and instruments, 1830-38, being the first to set up fixed astronomical instru- ments in the United States. On Aug. 18, 1838, he was given command of a squad- ron of five vessels, with which he sailed on an exploring ex- pedition through the Pacific along its American coast and in the Antarctic regions south of the equator, and his success made the Wilkes expedi- tion historical. He returned in 1842. In 1843 lie served on coast survey duty; was promoted com- mander, July 13, 1843; captain, Sept. 14, 1855, and on the outbreak of the civil war he was in command of the sloop-of-war San Jacinto on the coast of Africa. While coaling at St. Thomas island, he learned of the presence of the Confederate steamer Sumter, Capt. RajDhael Semmes, and immediately started in pursuit. On Nov. 8, 1861, he encountered

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