| editor, The Biographical Dictionary of America… (1906)
“ He attended the International meridian conference in Washington in 1884; the International meteorological conference in Munich in 1894, and was a lecturer in Johns Hopkins university from 1896. He also originated the system of standard time adopted by the United States. He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and received the degree LL.D. from the University of Michigan in 1887, and from the University of Glasgow in 1896 ”
