HORNE, THOMAS H. 



HUNTSVILLE. 



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Church College, Oxford; graduated in 1820, 

 and was ordained to the curacy of Frodesley, 

 Shropshire. His health, however, proving in- 

 sufficient for the duties of his profession, he 

 was obliged to relinquish it, and henceforth 

 turned his attention to scientific pursuits, for 

 which he had a peculiar fondness. While in 

 college he had devoted much attention to ge- 

 ology, and especially entomology, and, after 

 leaving Oxford, pursued his zoological studies 

 with great earnestness, extending his researches 

 to every branch of animated nature. His suc- 

 cess as a collector of English insects was very 

 great, repeated reference being made to them 

 in Stevens' great work on English insects and 

 several other valuable publications upon that 

 department of science. He did not, however, 

 confine his attention to the insects of his own 

 country, but formed, at great expense, an ex- 

 tensive collection, which became famous on the 

 Continent for the numerous Indian, African, 

 and Asiatic rarities amassed together. He was 

 connected with several scientific societies, and 

 his frequent contributions to their publications 

 were of great value. His investigations fol- 

 lowed the subject in all its branches, practical 

 and historical. During the latter part of his 

 life his health required a residence in the warmer 

 parts of Europe, where he added to his collec- 

 tions fishes, Crustacea, &c., as well as birds and 

 shells. In 1849 he executed a deed of gift, 

 making over his whole collection, as well as his 

 library and engravings, to the University of Ox- 

 ford, with a view of promoting the study of 

 natural history in that institution. His dona- 

 tion likewise comprises one of the largest col- 

 lections of engraved portraits and topographi- 

 cal illustrations ever formed. Of these the 

 portraits cannot be fewer than 140,000, and the 

 engravings of all kinds 100,000. The former 

 are arranged in series, and composed of royalty, 

 nobility, clergy, lawyers, statesmen, military 

 and naval officers, authors, painters, sculptors, 

 philosophers, medical professors, zoologists, 

 botanists, geologists, &c. In the year 1855, the 

 first stone of the new museum at Oxford was 

 laid, on which occasion the honorary degree of 

 D. C. L. was conferred on him by the univer- 

 sity. In 1861, Mr. Hope further testified his 

 devotion to the university by endowing a pro- 

 fessorship of zoology. 



HORNE, THOMAS HARTWELL, D. D., an Eng- 

 lish clergyman and author, born in London, 

 October 20, 1780, died in the same city, January 

 27, 1862. His father was a barrister's clerk in 

 the office of Mr. Graham, afterward one of 

 the barons of the exchequer. Young Home 

 was educated at Christ's Hospital School, and 

 made excellent proficiency in his studies ; but, 

 at the death of his father, when he was fifteen 

 years of age. he was compelled to enter upon 

 a life of labor for his own support and that of 

 his younger brothers and sisters. For ten 

 years he worked as a barrister's clerk for differ- 

 ent employers, occupying his leisure hours, 

 often far into the night, in study and literary 



labor. He very early experienced some dis- 

 quietude from the infidel views prevalent at 

 that period, and, having settled in his own mind 

 the question of the authenticity and inspira- 

 tion of the Scriptures, he sought to aid others, 

 and published, when about twenty years of age, 

 a " Brief View of the Necessity and Truth of 

 the Christian Religion," in two vols. 8vo., 

 which, obscure as its author was, passed through 

 several editions, and led to his subsequent great 

 work. From this time onward, for the next 

 fifteen or twenty years, he occupied his leisure 

 hours (being employed through the day regu- 

 larly as a barrister's clerk till 1806, for the next 

 three years as private secretary to Joseph But- 

 terworth, Esq., and from 1809 to 1823 as sub- 

 librarian of the Surrey Institution) in editing 

 or compiling a great number of works upon 

 the most miscellaneous subjects, in order to 

 add to his slender income the means of edu- 

 cating his brothers and sisters. It is said that at_ 

 least 50 separate works were thus prepared by* 

 this patient toiler. In 1824 he received the 

 appointment of senior assistant librarian in the 

 department of printed books at the British 

 Museum, which he retained till 1860. It was 

 while connected with the Surrey Institution 

 that he prepared and published the first edition 

 of his great work, "An Introduction to the 

 Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy 

 Scriptures," London, 3 vols. 8vo, 1813. This 

 work was at once adopted in Europe and Amer- 

 ica as a text book for theological students, and 

 brought its author into notice. It passed, dur- 

 ing the author's lifetime, through ten succes- 

 sive editions, being brought up to the latest re- 

 sults of biblical criticism, and the last edition, 

 issued in 1860, was in four bulky quartos. 

 Over 15,000 copies were sold in England dur- 

 ing Mr. Home's life, and it was republished in 

 several editions in the United States, and trans- 

 lated into most of the languages of Europe, 

 and several of those of India. An abridgment 

 of it, by the author, had also a very large sale. 

 In 1819, Mr. Home was ordained by Dr. How- 

 ley, then Bishop of London, to the curacy of 

 Christ Church, Newgate-street, and subse- 

 quently became assistant minister at Wilbeck 

 Chapel. In 1833, Dr. Howley, then Archbishop 

 of Canterbury, appointed him to the living of 

 a small church in Lombard-street, which he 

 held till his death. The University of Penn- 

 sylvania conferred on him the degree of D. D. 

 HUNTSVILLE, the capital of Madison coun- 

 ty, Alabama, is a beautiful town, situated on 

 the Memphis and Charleston railroad, 116 

 miles south by east of Nashville. It contains 

 numerous fine edifices of stone, churches and 

 seminaries, and had a population of about 

 4,500. It was occupied during the night of the 

 8th of April by a division of Federal troops, 

 under Gen. Mitchell. This was done so quietly 

 that the unsuspecting inhabitants were not 

 aware of what had taken place until the troops 

 were in peaceable possession, when consterna- 

 tion seized them. 



