Myopia
near or short sight, a defect of the eye, produced generally by too great convexity of the cornea or crystalline lens, causing the focus to be placed FREDERIC WILLIAM HENRY, an English author; born in Keswick, England, Feb. 6, 1843. He was classical lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1865-1868. He wrote: "St. Paul" (new ed . 1879), in verse; "Wordsworth" not on the cornea, but in front of it. It (1880), in "English Men of Letters"; occurs in early life from too great use of "Renewal of Youth, and Other Poems" "the eyes on minute objects, as the print (1882); "Essays, Modern and Classical" (1883) "Science and a Future Life" (1882) "Essays, Modern and Classical" in a book, especially by imperfect light. It is corrected by doubly-concave spec- 1893), a volume of essays; etc. He tacles. As a rule the defect diminishes was a constant contributor to English with the advance of age. reviews. He died in 1901.
MYERS, HENRY L., United States Senator from Montana; born in the State of Missouri Oct. 9, 1862, and educated in the public schools of that State. Admitted to the bar in 1885 and practiced law at Boonville and West Plains, Mo., for the succeeding eight years. In 1893 he moved to Montana and from 1899- 1903 was a member of the State Senate.
In 1907 he was appointed a United States District Judge; resigned when elected United States Senator in 1911. Senator Myers was the Democratic candidate to succeed himself in 1917, and was elected for the term 1917-1923.
MYERS, WILLIAM SHIELDS, chemist; born in Albany, N. Y., in 1866, he attended the Albany Academy and Rutgers College, studying also at Munich, Berlin, and London. He became asat the N. J. Experiment Station, 1888-1889; chemist at the Lister Chemical Works, 1892-1893, and associate professor of chemistry at Rutgers