WORMLEY, Theodore George, chemist, born in Wormleysburg, Pennsylvania, 1 April, 1826. He was educated at Dickinson college, but left without graduation to study medicine, and in 1849 received his degree at the Philadelphia medical college. In 1852 he was called to the chair of chemistry and natural sciences at Capital university, Columbus, Ohio, which he held until 1865, and was also professor of chemistry and toxicology in Starling medical college in 1854-'77. On the resignation of Professor Robert E. Rogers in 1877, he was called to the chair of chemistry and toxicology in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, which place he still holds. During 1867-'75 he was state gas commissioner of Ohio, and in 1867-'74 he was chemist to the Ohio geological survey. The degree of Ph. D. was conferred on him by Dickinson college, and that of LB. D. by Marietta, both in 1870. He is a member of the American philosophical society, a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science, and a member of other societies. Professor Wormley was appointed a member of the Centennial medical commission, having in charge the arrangements for the International medical congress of 1876, and was a delegate therefrom to the International medical congress at Philadelphia in September, 1876. He delivered an address before that body on "Medical Chemistry and Toxicology." In 1862-'4 he edited the "Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal," and he published in the "Chemical Yews" of London series of papers on the "Chemical Reactions of Strychnine" (1859) ; "Atropine," "Brucine," "Morphia," "Narcotine and Meconic Acid," "Corrosive Sublimate," " Veratrine" (1860) ; " Nicotine and Daturine," "Solanine," "Codeine, Meconine, Marceine, and Aconitine " (1861) ; " Conine " (1862) ; and "Oxalic Acid" (1863). Professor Wormley is the author of " Methods of Analysis of Coals, Iron Ores, Furnace Slags, Fire Clays, Limestones, and of Soils" (1870), has contributed reports to the "Geological Survey of Ohio" (Columbus, 1871), and has also published " The Micro-Chemistry of Poisons " (Yew York, 1867).W0RTH, Jonathan, governor of North Carolina, born in Guilford county, North Carolina, 18 November, 1802 ; died in Raleigh, North Carolina, 5 September, 1869. He was educated at the common schools and at Greensborough academy, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1825. He soon afterward settled at Asheborough, Randolph County, and engaged in practice. He was a, member of the North Carolina legislature in 1829-'34, and during the height of the nullification excitement introduced in 1831 a resolution into the house of commons of the state denouncing it in the strongest terms. He was also for several terms a member of the state senate, and opposed secession both in the legislature and in appeals to his constituents: but after his state had seceded he gave his adhesion to the Confederate government. He was a member of the lower house of the legislature from 1862 till the end of the war, and was public treasurer of the state during the same period. When a provisional government was organized in North Carolina by President Johnson, Mr. Worth was reappointed state treasurer, which post he resigned soon afterward, and became a candidate for governor, he was elected and served from 1865 till 1868, when the existing state government was superseded by the one that was organized under the reconstruction act of congress.