RUTHERFORD, LEWIS MORRIS

(1816-92), American lawyer and astronomer, 0. in Morris an i a, N.Y.; d. in Tranquility, N.J. Graduating from Williams College in 1834, he practiced law and built an observatory in New York, completed in 1849. In 1858 he tried astronomical photography, and in 1862 studied spectroscopy, constructing a large spectroscope in the following year, studying and improving Nobert’s gratings. In 1864 he completed a special telescope for photography, and a photographic corrector in 1868. In 1876 he devised gla circles to remove angles. Retired in 1883 ° Scot. Calvin ist divine; prof. at Edine burgh and Aberdeen; wrote Free put at i on against Pretended Li Conscience, defending persecution. W.), town, Lan arks hire, Scotland, near Clyde; collieries, chemical works. Pop. 1921, 24,744. S, Rom. poet; native of Gaul; lived até the beginning of the V. cent. A.D.; ties he is reputed to be the author of a poem on Mount Aitna. He is the author of an itinerary called De Reditu (descriptive of his return to Gaul), which was ublished by Burman in the Poetoe atint minores. smallest county of England; borders ge eae Kee: its pa : 1 livestock raised; wheat and era cultivated; cheese manufactured. Withe fn county was fought batile of Stamford (g.v.), 1470. Pop. 1921, 18,368.