Epitome: Yearbook 1891 . has filledthe chair of Civil Engineering. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon him in 1877,by Yale College. For five years subsequent to 1880 he was Acting Assistant in theUnited States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and had charge of the prim-ary triangulation of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers, the American Philosophical Society, DeutchenGeometervereins, and other technical societies. A number of works on mathematical and engineering sul)jects havebeen written by Professor Merriman which are recognized as standard,a

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Epitome: Yearbook 1891 . has filledthe chair of Civil Engineering. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon him in 1877,by Yale College. For five years subsequent to 1880 he was Acting Assistant in theUnited States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and had charge of the prim-ary triangulation of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers, the American Philosophical Society, DeutchenGeometervereins, and other technical societies. A number of works on mathematical and engineering sul)jects havebeen written by Professor Merriman which are recognized as standard,and are widely used as text-books in scientific schools and colleges. Thetitles of these works are: Theory of Continuous Bridges (1876), Ele-ments of the Method of Least Squares (1877), The Figure of the Earth,an Introduction to Geodesy (1878), A Text-Book on Least Squares(1884), The Mechanics of Materials, and of Beams, Columns and Shafts(1885), Text-Book on Roofs and Bridges (1888), and a Treatise on Hy-draulics (1889).. -; ^^^i3i. r — *. }

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