. Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine;. an Institution, Washington,and in 1897 was made head curator of its de-partment of geology. In addition to otherduties, he was lecturer on the economic aspectsof geology in the Maryland Agricultural Col-lege, 1890-91. and since 1893 has been pro-fessor of geology and mineralogy in the Cor-coran Scientific School of Columbian (nowGeorge Washington) Lniversity. He is theauthor of several standard works, includingStones for Building and Decoration,Rocks. Rockweathering and .^oils. TheNon-Metallic Minerals and Contributions tothe History of
. Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine;. an Institution, Washington,and in 1897 was made head curator of its de-partment of geology. In addition to otherduties, he was lecturer on the economic aspectsof geology in the Maryland Agricultural Col-lege, 1890-91. and since 1893 has been pro-fessor of geology and mineralogy in the Cor-coran Scientific School of Columbian (nowGeorge Washington) Lniversity. He is theauthor of several standard works, includingStones for Building and Decoration,Rocks. Rockweathering and .^oils. TheNon-Metallic Minerals and Contributions tothe History of American Geolosjy. besidesmany valuable papers in scientific was a contributor to the Standard Dic-tionary, Johnsons Lniversal Encyclopedia,Russell Sturgiss Dictionary of Architectureand Building, and Baileys Cyclopedia ofAgriculture. In 1897 he was an official dele-gate to the international geological congress atSt. Petersburgh. and incidentally travelled ex-tensively throughout Russia (including Ar-menia) and Europe. He married, in Novem-. cJeo^f/f .y. ^fufff//. STATE OF MAINE. 1861 ber, 1883. Sarah, daughter of Joseph R. Far-rington, of Portland. Maine. She died in1894, leaving four children: Joseph Farring-ton, Anne Margaret, Mildred Hastings andRuth. In February, 1900, he married Kath-erine L. Yancey, daughter of Edward R. (Jeffries) Yancey, of Virginia. She isthe mother of one daughter, Katherine Doro-thy. (\TII) Lucius Herbert, third son of Luciusand Anne E. (Jones) Merrill, was born Oc-tober I, 1857, in Auburn, and received hisearly educational training in the commonschools of that town, followed by a course inthe Edward Little high school. In 1880 heentered the Maine State College (now Uni-versity of Maine), from which he was gradu-ated in 1883 in the course of chemistry. Dur-ing the two succeeding years, he was an as-sistant curator in the department of lithologyand physical geology of the United States Na-tional ;\Iuseum. In 1886 he received an
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