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Edward Vermilye Huntington '95, professor of Mechanics, emeritus, died in his Cambridge home yesterday at the age of 78. A noted mathematician, he authored four-place tables of logarithms and trigometric functions. In 1941, Congress enacted into law his method of apportioning Representatives after the Senate had appointed him to survey existing methods.

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