Bailey, Edgar H. S., chemist, was born at Middlefield, Conn., Sept. 17, 1848. In 1873 he received the degree of Ph. B. from Yale University, and for the year following was an instructor in chemistry in that institution. He then became an instructor in the Lehigh University at South Bethlehem, Pa., where he remained until 1883, visiting Strassburg, however, in 1881 as a student along special lines. Prof. Bailey was appointed chemist to the Kansas State Board of Agriculture in 1885. In 1895 he visited Leipzig, and in 1899 became chemist to the Kansas State Board of Health. The next year he was made director of the chemical laboratory in the University of Kansas, which position he still occupies. Prof. Bailey assisted in and contributed to the reports of the Kansas geological survey; in connection with H. P. Cady is the author of a laboratory Guide to Qualitative Analysis; was councilor of the society of Sigma Xi in 1908; is a member of various scientific societies, and honorary member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, and a contributor to scientific and chemical journals. On July 13, 1876, he married Miss Aravesta Trumbauer, of Bethlehem, Pa.