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Nichols, Clarinda Howard

reformer, was born Jan. 25, 1810, in Townsend, Vt. She was instrumental in securing the passage of the first bill in the Vermont legislature that recognized the civil existence of wives. She afterward emigrated to Kansas, served one term as recording clerk of the state legislature, and removed to Pomo, Cal., in 1871. She died Jan. 11, 1885, in Pomo, Cal.

NICHOLS, EDWARD LEAMINGTON, Ph. D., educator, physicist, author, was born Sept. 14, 1854, in England. Since 1887 he has been professor of physics in Cornell university. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Physical Review, and is the author of A Laboratory Manual of Physics and Applied Electricity, in two volumes; The Elements of Physics; and The Outlines of Physics.