Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . ; bom near Dayton, 0., Sept,8, 1828. He was graduated at theUnited States Military Academy in 1852,and rose to the rank of the Civil War he greatly distinguishedhimself at South Mountain, Antietam, Chickamauga, and Appomattox. Afterthe war he achieved celebrity in cam-paigns against the Indians as com-mander of the districts of Idaho and Ari-zona. From 1888 until his death, hocommanded the Military Division of theMissouri. He died in Chicago, March 1,1890.
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . ; bom near Dayton, 0., Sept,8, 1828. He was graduated at theUnited States Military Academy in 1852,and rose to the rank of the Civil War he greatly distinguishedhimself at South Mountain, Antietam, Chickamauga, and Appomattox. Afterthe war he achieved celebrity in cam-paigns against the Indians as com-mander of the districts of Idaho and Ari-zona. From 1888 until his death, hocommanded the Military Division of theMissouri. He died in Chicago, March 1,1890. CROOKES, SIR WILLIAM, an Eng-lish physicist and chemist; born in Lon-don in 1832; studied at the Royal Collegeof Chemistry under Hofmann, and after1851 devjted himself to original re-searches in science. He invented theradiometer in 1875, and the otheoscopein 1877, and announced in 1879 his dis-covery of the fourth or ultra-gaseousstate of matter. In 1880 the FrenchAcademie des Sciences bestowed on himan extraordinary prize of 3,000 francsand a gold medal in recognition of hisdiscoveries in molecular physics and ra-. SIR WILLIAM CROOKES diant matter. In 1881 he acted as Juror atthe International Exhibition of Electric-ity in Paris. In this official position hewas not entitled to a medal, but in theofficial report his fellow jurors, afterdiscussing the merits of four systems ofincandescent lamps, declared—None ofli—Vol. Ill—Cyc CROQUET 206 CROSS them would have succeeded had it notbeen for these extreme vacua which has taught us to manage. Itis stated that he was the first to applyphotography to the investigation of thesolar spectrum. He is the author ofSelect Methods in Chemical Analysis,Manufacture of Beet-root Sugar inEngland, Handbook of Dyeing andCalico-Printing, Manual of Dyeingand Tissue-Printing, etc. He is alsojoint author of the English adaptationof Kerls Treatise on Metallurgy. Hehas edited the last three editions ofMitchells Manual of Practical Assay
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