The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . 1893, the growth of this place has beenremarkable. It contains churches, public and pri-vate schools, banks, a board of trade. United Statesland-office, a daily and five weekly papers, and is animportant trade center for a large surrounding ter-ritory. Estimated population 1895, 3jS°°- PERRY, Arthur Latham, an American edu-cator; born in Lyme, New Hampshire, Feb. 27, 1830; graduated at Wil-liams College, Massachu-setts, in 1852; professor ofhistory and political econ-omy in that institution in1854. He was a
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . 1893, the growth of this place has beenremarkable. It contains churches, public and pri-vate schools, banks, a board of trade. United Statesland-office, a daily and five weekly papers, and is animportant trade center for a large surrounding ter-ritory. Estimated population 1895, 3jS°°- PERRY, Arthur Latham, an American edu-cator; born in Lyme, New Hampshire, Feb. 27, 1830; graduated at Wil-liams College, Massachu-setts, in 1852; professor ofhistory and political econ-omy in that institution in1854. He was an ardentadvocate of free trade; acontributor of economicarticles to a number ofjournals, and participatedin public debates withHorace Greeley upon tar-liff questions before NewYork and Boston audi-ences. He wrote The Ele-ments of Political Econ-omy (1S65); Introductionto Political Economy (\%ii)\ and IVilliamstoivn andWilliams College. PERRY, John, an English electrician and physi-cist; born in Garvagh, a town in Ulster, Ireland,in 1850; graduated at Queens University of Ireland,. PROF. A. L. PERRY. in 1870, as bachelor of engineering. In 1882 theuniversity senate conferred upon him the honorarydegree of master in engineering. From 1870 to1874 he lectured on physics at Clifton College; wassecretary of the A section, British Association, in1874; and in the same year became the assistant andassociate of Sir William Thomson (see Kelvin, inthese Supplements). In 1875 he read a paper on TheElectric Conductivity of Glass as Dependent on Tem-perature, before the Royal Society of London; andanother paper, conjointly with Sir William Thom-son, on Capillary Surfaces of Revolution, before theRoyal Society of Edinburgh. In 1S75 he went, toJapan as instructor in the Imperial College of En-gineering, returning home in 1879. ^^ 1882 hebecame professor of mechanical engineering andapplied mathematics in the Finsbury TechnicalCollege, conjointly with Professor William E. Ayr-ton (, in the
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