MACALLUM, Archibald Byron, Cana dian educator: b. Belmont, Ontario, in 1859. After receiving his education in the Toronto and Johns Hopkins universities he became lec turer on physiology (1887) and professor in the medical faculty of Toronto University (1891-92). From 1892 to 1901 he was associate professor in the arts faculty there and full professor after 1901. In 1895-97 he was presi dent of the Canadian Institute. In 1901 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, Canada, and in 1906 of the Royal Society of London. 110 1911 he was elected president of the Ameri can Society of Biochemists. He has published scientific articles in the Journal of Physiology, Proceedings the Royal Society Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, American Journal of Morphology and Journal of Anat omy and Physiology.
McALPINE, William Jarvis, American engineer: b. New York, 1812; d. New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., 16 Feb. 1890. He took up engineering in 1827 under J. B. Jer vis, with whom he continued till 1839, and suc ceeded him as engineer of the Erie Canal en largement. In 1851 he became State engineer of New York and State railroad commissioner in 1855-57. He was subsequently engineer of several important railways, constructed the city waterworks at Albany and Chicago, and in 1870 his plans for improvement of the cataracts of the Danube were accepted by the Austrian gov ernment. While engineer of the department of parks, 1879-80, he constructed the Riverside drive in New York.
McANENY, George, American civic ad ministrator: b. Greenville, N. J., 24 Dec. 1869. He was graduated at the Jersey City High School in 1885 and entered journalism, serving on the staff of several New York newspapers from 1885 to 1892. From 1892 to 1894 he was assistant secretary of the Civil Service Reform League, of which he became secretary in 1894.
He held this position until 1903, serving on committees that drafted the municipal home rule section of the State constitution in 1894 and the State Civil Service Law in 1899. In 1902 he was a member of the New York Civil Service Commission and also of the commission to revise the city charter in 1908. In 1903-06 he read law with Edward M. Shepard. In 1906-09 he was president of the City Club of New York; in 1910-13 he was president of the borough of Manhattan, and in 1914-16 president of the board of aldermen (fusion ticket), and was active in obtaining municipal markets for New York City. In 1902 he drafted the civil service rules now in force in New York City; was a member of the commission appointed by the governor to revise the New York City char ter (1908) ; chairman of the transit committee of the New York board of estimate and ap portionment, which, with the Public Service Commission, developed New York's new $300, 000,000 subway system, and chairman of com mittee on city plan 1914-16. In national politics he is a Democrat. In 1913 Paris gave him the medal of the Societe des Architects Diplennes par le Gouvernment Francais for services to city planning and architecture in the United States. In 1915 he received the medal of the Architectural League in New York. Hobart gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1914. He is chairman of board of trustees of College of the City of New York; a trustee of the Tusk egee (Alabama) Institute and of Jeanes Fund for Negro Education; vice-president Hampton Association National Municipal League, and president of the New York Kindergarten Asso ciation. In 1914 he was Dodge lecturer at Yale. The lectures were published under the title of < Municipal Citizenship' (New York 1915).