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Gridley, Albert Leverett

soldier, clergyman, cosmologist, was born Oct. 17, 1839, in Caton, N. Y. He received his education at the academy of Oxford, New York; Oberlin college, and the Oberlin Theological seminary. He served for four years as a union soldier during the civil war. He has attained success as an educator and clergyman; and is now pastor of the congregational church of Kidder, Mo. In 1871 he discovered a law in cosmology, which is fully set forth in The American Mathematical Monthly of July, 1879. The contention is that if the solar system has grown from nebulæ, according to the nebular hypothesis, then the velocities of the interior planets in their orbits is the result of the velocity of the one nearest outside of it, with the velocity of contraction.