BIOGRAPHIES OF NEW INSTRUCTORS.
Dr. M. E. Wadsworth, who has been called to the chair
of mining’, was born in East Eivermor, Me., May 6,1847, and
spent his early years upon his father's farm. In 1865 enter
ed Bowdoin College and graduated with honors four years
afterwards, notwithstanding that he taught from one to
three terms of school each year during his college course.
Was teaching for the next four years in Minnesota and Wis
consin and in 1873 went to Harvard to pursue graduate stu
dies in the natural and physical sciences, but accepted the
position of professor of Chemistry in the Boston Dental
School the same year. In 1874 he resigned this position to
accept instructorsliip in Mathematics and Mineralogy at
Harvard. Was on geological survey of New Hampshire, and
assistant geologist on the Minnesota geological survey in
1886-87. In 1877 was appointed assistant in lithology in the
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. During
1884-85 Dr. Wadsworth spent much of his time in England
and on the Continent studying the advanced methods of
petrographical research among the leading European Uni
versities. In 1887 was elected' President of the Michigan
College of Mines which he raised from what was merely an
institution on paper to a school that today stands in the
front rank of the world’s institutions of its kind.
Dr. Wadsworth received the degree of Bachelor of Arts
from Bowdoin College in 1872 and the same degree from
Harvard in 1874. In 1879 he was made a Doctor of Philo
sophy in geology by Harvard. He is also a member of the
leading scientific societies of both this country and Europe.
His writings are voluminous and show him to be an original
and independent thinker. He is a constant contributor to
many of the leading scientific periodicals and has also pub-
DR. WADSWORTH.