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Welling, James Clarke

educator, was born July 14, 1825, in Trenton, N. J.

In 1884 he was appointed a regent of the Smithsonian institution, and soon afterward he was elected chairman of its executive committee. He is president of the Copyright league of the District of Columbia.

WELLINGTON, ARTHUR MELLEN, civil engineer, author, was born Dec. 20, 1847, in Waltham, Mass. He was a civil engineer of distinction; and the author of The Computation of Earthwork from Diagrams; The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways; Car-Builders' Dictionary; and Field Work of Railway Location. He died in 1895.