Letter from M. B. Snyder

He was a member of the Royal Astronomical Society. He was a man of scientific interests. In 1884 he served as secretary to the United States Electrical Commission. In that same year he suggested and saw it materialize, the formation of the National Bureau of Standards. He was appointed head of the departments of Automatics and of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory in Philadelphia, PA Copyright 1919 by M. B. Snyder - The Fundamental Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements founded on the Cosmic Atomic Numbers Monroe Benjamin Snyder (BA 1872, MA 1875)