Biographical Memoirs - National Academy Of Science Vol Xxvi

Text extracted from opening pages of book: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS VOL. xxvi CITY OF WASHINGTON PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1951 CONTENTS HARRY FIELDING REID. . Andrew C. Lawson and Perry Byerly I WILLIAM CROWELL BRAY Joel Henry Hildebrand 13 REID HUNT E. K. Marshall, Jr. 25 JAMES EWING James B. Murphy 45 WILLIAM BOWIE J. A. Fleming 61 DAVID HILT TENNENT Mary S. Gardiner 99 CHARLES ATWOOD KOFOID . Richard B. Goldschmidt 121 WILLIAM HENRY HOWELL Joseph Erlanger 153 HANS FREDERIK BLICHFELDT E. T. Bell 181 JAMES ROWLAND ANGELL W. S. Hunter 191 JOHN CAMPBELL MERRIAM Chester Stock 209 HARRY GIDEON WELLS Esmond R. Long 233 HARRY FIELDING REID 1859-1944 BY ANDREW C. LAWSON and PERRY BYERLY Harry Fielding Reid was born May 1 8, 1859 in the city of Baltimore and died June 18, 1944. As a boy he went to school in Lausanne, Switzerland, where the family lived for some years. Returning to Baltimore about the time of the opening of Johns Hopkins University, he became a student In that uni versity, receiving from it his bachelor's degree in 1880, and his doctorate in 1885. In 1886 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, and in 1889 became Professor of Physics in that institution. He occupied this chair for five years, after which he became attached to the geological staff of the University of Chicago as Associate Professor of Physical Geology and then returned to Johns Hop kins University, where in 1901 he became Professor of Geologi cal Physics. The title of this department became that of Dy namic Geology and Geography in 1911 and he continued as its head until 1930, when heretired. Besides his academic work he assumed from time to time various other scientific duties connected with public service. He was chief of the highway division of the Maryland Geologi cal Survey from 1898 to 1905; expert in charge of earthquake records, U. S. Geological Survey, 1902-14; member of the Com mission Internationale des Glaciers; representative of the United States in the International Seismological Association from 1906 on; honorary member Societe Helvetique des Sciences Natur elles; corresponding member Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1912. He was also a Fellow of the Geological Society of America; a member of the American Physical Society; the Washington Academy of Sciences; American Philosophical So ciety; the Seismological Society of America, of which he was President in 1913; and the American Geophysical Union ( chair man, 1924-26). In 1906 he was appointed by Governor Pardee a member of the California State Earthquake Investigation NATIONAL ACADEMY BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS VOL. XXVI Commission. In 1911 he was Hitchcock Lecturer at the Univer sity of California. In these Hitchcock Lectures he gave an ad mirable exposition of the new Elastic Rebound Theory of Earthquakes. He wrote parts VI, VII and VIII of the High ways of Maryland, 1899, and was joint author with A. N. John son of the Second Report on the Highways of Maryland, 1902. He is also the author of Volume II of the report of the Califor nia State Earthquake Investigation Commission, 1910. In 1915, at the request of the President of the United States, he reported on the possibility of controlling the landslides at Panama. Besides these variedactivities he continued through out his life to publish papers and monographs on particular problems in the geological periodicals. The scientific problems which concerned Reid throughout his life fall chiefly into two general categories. From 1892, when he first began to publish the results of his scientific studies, until 1907 his printed writings had to do almost wholly with the de scription and discussion of glaciers. He contributed much to our knowledge of the more obscure features of the glaciers of Switzerland, Alaska, Washington, and Oregon, and became the