| Electronic journals - 1901 - 562 pages
...to the investigation of the elusive phenomena which make a special claim to be known as "psychical." He was one of the founders and the first president of the Society for Psychical Research; and the scientific character of the Society's work is in all probability... | |
| Medicine - 1923 - 660 pages
...conquered by science. Trudeau founded the first American sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis. He was one of the founders and the first president of the National Tuberculosis Association, and it was he. more than -any other, who brought the light of hope... | |
| Science - 1911 - 706 pages
...societies both at home and abroad. In 1898 he received the degree of LL.D. from Brown University, and he was one of the founders and the first president of the American Society of Naturalists. Emerson and Holmes among its members; the Examiner's Club composed... | |
| Henry Clay - History - 1468 pages
...studies, but lie had remained in Philadelphia and in 1812 established a pharmaceutical laboratory. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, in 1812. In 1825 he had joined Robert Owen's community... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1900 - 376 pages
...Literature of the Arts of Design had been bestowed upon him by the University of the City of New York; that he was one of the founders and the first president of the National Academy of Design, and that his sterling integrity of character and iridomitable perseverance... | |
| George Joseph Murphy - Business & Economics - 1993 - 668 pages
...He was the mana9in9 editor of the Canadian Chartered Accountant ma9azine when it be9an publication. He was one of the founders, and the first president, of the Canadian Society of Cost Accountants in 1919. He was, also, the insti9ator of the Instituterun correspondence... | |
| James Thorpe - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...library when he died in 1909. Hoe had been an important figure in the New York book and art world: he was one of the founders, and the first president, of the Grolier Club and a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He published a series of careful bibliographic... | |
| New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - New England - 1995 - 542 pages
...GRINNELL, Henry, in the city of NewYork, in June, 1874. He was born in New-Bedford, Mass., Feb. 13, 1799. He was one of the founders and the first president of the American Geographical Society. He fitted out at his own expense two exploring expeditions to the North... | |
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