sity of Michigan, 1878. Assistant engineer, United States Improvement of th Missisippi River, 1879. Assistant in Washburn Observatory, University of Wisconsin, 1880-83. Graduated from Law School, University of Wisconsin, 1883. Com puter, Nautical Almanac Office, Washington, 1883-84. Astronomer, Washburn Observatory, 1884-85. Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Ohio State University, 1885-87. Professor of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin and Associate Director Washburn Observatory, 1887. Director Washburn Observatory, 1889. Visited the principal European observatories, 1890 and 1894. Published five volumes of Publications of the Washburn Observatory. Method of Least Squares, 1889. Numerous scientific papers in the Astronomical Journal, Sidereal Messenger, Astronomy and Astro-Physics, Astronomische Nachrichten, Astrophysical Journal, etc. EDWIN EUSTACE BRYANT, Dean of the College of Law, was born January 10, 1835, in Milton, Chittendon county, Vt. He received an academic edu cation in the New Hampshire Institute, spending two years in the classical department; removed to Wisconsin in 1857, was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at Monroe. Was engaged in the practice of law at Monroe until the rebellion broke out, when he enlisted as a private in Company C, Third Wisconsin Infantry. He was promoted to sergeant-major before leaving the state; served three years, first as lieutenant, and in 1862 became adjutant of his regiment under Colonel, now General Thomas H. Ruger. In July, 1864, he was appointed commissioner of enrollment for the third district of Wisconsin, and in February, 1865, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Fiftieth Wisconsin Infantry, and served one year in Missouri. In 1868 he was appointed adjutant-general of the state and private secretary to Governor Fairchild. At the expiration of Governor Fairchild's administration in 1872, he re-entered the practice of law, in partnership with W. F. Vilas. In 1876, he again became adjutant-general under Governor Ludington, was reappointed by Governor Smith, in 1878, and continued in office until 1882; was a member of the legislature in 1878, and served as chairman of the committee on revision of the state statutes; was appointed with W. F. Vilas to revise and annotate eighteen volumes of the supreme court reports, and reported the thirty-seventh volume. In 1884 was appointed assistant attorney general of the Postoffice Department, which position he held four years. In 1889, General Bryant was elected Dean of the College of Law of the University of Wisconsin, to which he has since given his entire time and attention. He has been a fertile writer on subjects relating to his profession. In 1869, associated with John C. Spooner, he published an edi. tion of Town Laws, with forms and instructions for town officers. While connected with the postoffice department he edited the Postal Guide, and compiled a volume of postal laws and regulations and a manual of instructions to postoffice inspectors. He is the author of several works on legal subjects: The Wisconsin Justice, a manual for justices of the peace (1884), Code Pleading (1894), Elementary Law (1895), Code Forms for use in Wisconsin, besides various notes of lectures. His military experiences are recorded in the History of the Third Regiment Wisconsin Veteran Volunteers, written by him, published in 1891. He has been president of the Commissioners of Fisheries since 1893. During the past year he has written a history of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, for the Green Bag, a law magazine published in Boston. CHARLES NOBLE GREGORY, A. M., LL. B., Professor of Law and Associate Dean of the College of Law, University of Wisconsin, was born at Unadilla, Otsego county, N. Y., August 27, 1851. He removed to Madison, Wis., with his father (the late Hon. J. C. Gregory) in 1858. Graduated with honor at the University of Wisconsin in 1871, taking the Latin salutatory, and a year later graduated in the College of Law of the University of Wisconsin. Studied law with the firm of Gregory & Pinney, composed of his father and Mr. Justice Pinney, now of the supreme court of Wisconsin, and became junior partner of the firm. Later was a member of firms of Gregory & Gregory, and of Gregory, Bird & Gregory. He for years held an annual retainer from C., M. & St. P. Ry. Served three years as alderman of the city of Madison (1882-3-4), one year as a member of the Board of Education, and one year as president of the Alumni Association of the University of Wisconsin. Edited The Tariff Reform Advocate in 1888, and has published articles in old Scribner's Magazine, Littell's Living Age, Overland Monthly, Harper's Weekly, Outing, Youth's Com. panion, New York Nation, New York Evening Post, New York Independent, Harvard Law Review, The London Law Times and The Legal Advisor, and many western newspapers and publications. Has also published pamphlets on "The Corrupt Use of Money in Elections, and Laws for Its Prevention," and given addresses in New York, Chicago and elsewhere on the tople. He has long been a member of the General Committee of the National Civil Service Reform Association, and is president of the Wisconsin Civil Service Reform Association, and also a member of the American Bar Association. He was elected to his present position in the faculty in June, 1894. |