Obituary

PROFESSOR R. C. CARPENTER of Cornell University died at his home in Ithaca on January 19. He was born in 1852 and graduated from Michigan University in 1877, and served for one year as assistant engineer of construction of the Detroit and Bay City R. R. He then became professor at Michigan Agricultural College and was in charge of the department of mathematics and civil engineering from 1878 to 1890 when he accepted the associate professorship of experimental engineering at Sibley College, Cornell. Prof. Carpenter also conducted a consulting engineering practise of considerable magnitude.