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WILLET, Joseph Edgerton, educator, born in Macon, Georgia, 17 November, 1826. He was graduated at Mercer university in 1846 and elected in 1847 adjunct professor of natural philosophy and chemistry, but spent some time in the analytical laboratory of Yale college before fully taking up the duties of his chair. Since 1849 he has been engaged in teaching natural science in Mercer university, having been made full professor in 1848. During the civil war he was employed by the Confederate government to superintend the laboratory at Atlanta, in which all kinds of ammunition were manufactured, and in recent years he has served on the United States commission to investigate the habits, nature, and ravages of the cotton caterpillar. Professor Willet has delivered a course of lectures on " Science and Religion," besides lecturing before agricultural societies. He is the author of a prize-book, "The Wonders of Insect Life " (1869).
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