| Show ing for a year was called on a mission to the Southern States where he remained for two years After this he spent three years at Ann Arbor where he received the degrees of Bachelor of Laws and and of Letters The next year he went to Harvard taking out a degree of A. A M. M for work done in Philosophy Psychology and Economics The next year that of 5 1894 he was employed to teach reach Latin and English in this i institution The following following following fol fol- lowing year he began the practice of law lawin lawin lawin in this city and has since continued in that line On September he was married to Miss Agnes Barton one of our students ex-students and they are now at home at 98 Centre Street r Joseph F. F Merrill Professor of Physics and Chemistry and Principal of the Mining Schools of the U. U and U. U who is isnow isnow isnow now absent on leave doing post graduate work in Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Balti- Balti more was a member of the Normal 89 class After leaving here he went to the theU U University of Michigan where he was graduated as B. B S. S specializing in Chemistry The summer after his graduation graduation graduation tion was spent at Cornell where he did work in the analysis of gases In the fall he returned to assume the duties of assistant in Chemistry and Physics in inthis inthis inthis this teaching here for two years The intervening summer he spent in the of Chicago applying himself to the preparation of inorganic substances In the autumn of 1895 he went to Johns Hopkins to do post graduate work taking a course in Electrical Engineering and receiving a certificate the following June He spent the succeeding summer in the University of Chicago doing electrical work Next year he returned to Johns Hopkins and did work in Physics Electricity and Mathematics looking toward a degree of S. S Dr Last year he taught in the University of Utah but rec receiving iving an appointment to a fellowship fellowship fellowship fellow fellow- ship at Johns Hopkins yielding per annum he has gone back there for the year He will there make a tion of the electro-chemical electro equivalent of silver upon which all electrical measurements are based This work was recommended to physicists by the British Association of Science in the hope of reconciling the different results obtained by experimenters experiment experiment- ers as the val value e of the mechanical equivalent of heat Rowlan Rowlands Rowland's s 's value obtained obtained obtained ob ob- by mechanical methods is not the same as those obtained by Griffiths Griffith and Schuster by electrical means Prof Merrill may possibly be able to show that this is caused by a faulty measurement measurement measure measure- ment of the electric unit of current He has already done work of much service to science in disproving the supposition supposition supposition sup sup- position that the conductivity of copper wire is different for air water and other fluids' fluids He found it to vary by an infinitesimally infinitesimally infinitesimally in- in small quantity only This will probably be the subject of his thesis to be submitted in June Prof Merrills Merrill's desire to so prepare himself for his work as to give our University the advantage o of all that is best in his line of science sciences is s most o t commendable and well worthy of of imitation Frank J. J Cannon at present U. U S. S Senator for Utah and with excellent prospects of being chosen as his own successor was graduated from the U. U of U. U then the University of Deseret in 78 18 in the special course in English Language and Senator Cannon attended the City schools until thirteen years of age He then left school following mercantile pursuits for about five years when he returned to the Varsity and remained |
