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and has been since in active practice in Lawrence, Wichita, and Kansas City, Kansas, with the exception of a couple of times when he was county attorney for Douglas and later for Wyandotte county. Mr. Tosh expects to move soon to the larger Kansas City on the east side of the river. Murray Harris, who by the way is a brother of Senator W.A. Harris, is the locating and constructing engineer of the Texas and Pacific Railway and chief engineer of the Pecos Valley Ry. Up to a recent date, at least, Mr. Harris' headquarters were at Eddy, New Mexico. Ralph Collins, a third member of the class of '73, is at Rodi, Alleghany Co., Pa. Mr. Collins has taught some since graduation but for the greater part of the time has been farming in Pennsylvania. Flora Richardson Colman has been living quietly at home on the Coleman farm west of Lawrence since '73 with the exception of three years spent in teaching immediately following graduation.
That an engineer is called upon to undergo many changes and vicissitudes witness the career of Ellis B. Noyes, '74. Mr. Noyes went to Chicago immediately after completing his University work and assisted Mr. G. B. Frost in engineering work. The winter of '74-'75 was spent in the Indian Territory among the Cherokees. Then back to Chicago again in the summer of'75. In the spring of'76,Mr. Noyes was engaged with Uriah A. Boyden, the celebrated hydraulic crank until that gentleman's death in 1878. Then to Lowell, Mass., in the office of James A. Francis for a short time and next to New London in'79 as clerk to a Civil Engineer in the U.S. Navy yard. The Fall of 1882 finds Mr. Noyes in the Brooklyn Navy yard and in 1885 he was engaged for a short time in the office of the Am. Society of Civil Engineers. In 1886 in charge of Piconic Bays Canal on Long Island. In 1887 made survey of Champlain Canal and in 1888 had charge of enlargement of four locks in Erie Canal. In'93 in charge of cement works at Milroy, Pa. In'94 employed by a rapid transit company in New York City. Then in the Norfolk Navy yard where he now is engaged in general engineering and drawing work.
Many students are unaware of the high position that many of our professors hold in the literary and scientific world. During the past summer one of our professors completed a work which has received the most favorable criticism from the leading scientific magazines.
The "American Naturalist" has recently published a long review of one of Professor Williston's recent works from which the following is an extract:
"The recent appearance of Dr. Williston's Manual of North American Diptera gives reason to hope that the immediate future will greatly increase the number of workers in this order, so that we will be justified in counting a new era from 1896. This work is Dr. Williston's most important single contribution to dipterology so far, and it worthily exhibits the industry, experience and ability of the author, which has secured for him world-wide recognition as a dipterist of the highest rank."
Another noted entomologist, speaking of Dr. Williston's work, says: "His admirable studies and frequent publications are laying us under obligation to him, and the fact, that he has been chosen as one of the authors of that magnificent work "Biologia Centrali-Americana" is evidence that his labors have been recognized in placing
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