Orndorff
WILLIAM RIDGELY, an American chemist, born in Baltimore, in 1862. After studying at Baltimore City College and at Johns Hopkins University, and at several other universities in Germany, he was instructor and assistant professor of chemistry at Cornell University, from 1887 to 1898. He was professor of organic chemistry from 1902. In 1890 he served as special agent ORNE of the United States Census, and carried on many important researches in chemical subjects, and was a member of many important American and foreign chemistry societies. He wrote "Laboratory Manual of Organic Chemistry" in 1894. a ORRIS ROOT near Baalbek, flows N. between the mountains of Libanus, as far as the city of Antioch, and then W. to the Mediterranean Sea, through a total course of 147 miles.