Career
He was instructor in mathematics at Dalhousie (1887-1889). At Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania was lecturer and associate in physics (1891-1892), associate professor (1894-1897), and professor (1897-1905). Then returned to Dalhousie to be Munro professor of physics (1905-1910), in 1911 becoming president of that university, as successor to John Forrest.
His scientific papers were published in the Physical Review, Journal of the Franklin Institute, and Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.
He also translated and edited a collection of memoirs on The Laws of Gravitation (1900).
