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Professor George C. Whipple, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Engineering, will give the third talk at the symposium, on "The Nature and Uses of Water" at 8 o'clock tonight in the Living Room of the Union. He will take the place of the speaker previously announced, Mr. Melville C. Whipple, an instructor in the Engineering School, according to a statement given out by the authorities in charge of the symposium.
Professor Whipple, formerly biologist for the Boston Water Works, and later director of the Mt. Prospect Laboratory, department of water supply, gas, and electricity, New York, has been professor at the University since 1911, as well as being a member of the firm of Hazen, Whipple and Fuller, consulting engineers, in New York. An authority on sanitation. Professor Whipple is the author of numerous works on the microscopy of drinking water, the value of pure water, typhoid fever, state sanitation, etc.
The other speakers and the subjects they will discuss at the Union tonight are Professor Alexander McAdie '85, Director of the Blue Hill Observatory; "Rain, Hall and Snow", and Professor R. A. Daly '93, the geologist: "Ancient and Modern Oceans".
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