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struments, in military and general surgery. 

 His publications include, besides several minor 

 works, u Treatise on Strabismus " (Buffalo, 

 1844) ; " Treatise on Fractures and Disloca- 

 tions" (Philadelphia, 1860, seventh edition, 

 1884), which has been translated into the 

 French and German languages ; " Practical 

 Treatise on Military Surgery " (New York, 

 1861); "The Principles and Practice of Sur- 

 gery " (1872) ; and he edited " The Surgical 

 Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion," pub- 

 lished in 1871 under the direction of the U. S. 

 Sanitary Commission. 



Ilainlin, Charles Edward, an American natural- 

 ist, born in Augusta, Me., Feb. 4, 1825 ; died 

 in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 3, 1886. He was 

 graduated at Waterville College (now Colby 

 University) in 1857, and for six years taught 

 in Brandon, Vt., Bath, Me., and Suffield. Conn. 

 From 1853 till 1873 he was Professor of Chem- 

 istry and Natural History in Waterville College, 

 spending his winter vacations in practical sci- 

 entific studies in the laboratories of Harvard 

 University, first in the chemical department 

 under Prof. J. P. Cooke, and later in zoology 

 under Prof. Louis Agassiz. In 1873 he re- 

 ceived the appointment of assistant in Con- 

 chology and Paleontology in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology. For a few years he gave 

 instruction in geology and geography ; but this 

 he afterward relinquished, giving his entire at- 

 tention to the work in the museum, declining 

 invitations from Brown University and else- 

 where to resume his lecturing, lie received the 

 degree of LL. D. from the University of Lewis- 

 burg, Pa., in 1873, and in 1880 became one 

 of the trustees of Colby University. Prof. 

 Hamlin published but few papers ; the most 

 important of them are " Observations during 

 Visits to Mount Katahdin, Maine " ; " A Re- 

 port of an Examination of Syrian Fossils " ; 

 and " The Attitude of the Christian Teacher in 

 respect to Science." 



Hand, Samuel, an American lawyer, born in 

 Elizabethtown, Essex County, N. Y., in 1834 ; 

 died in Albany, N. Y., May 21, 1886. He was 

 the second son of Hon. Augustus C. Hand, 

 who was a member of Congress, a State Sen- 

 ator, a Judge of the New York Court of Er- 

 rors, and a Judge of the New York Supreme 

 Court in the Fourth Judicial District. Samuel 

 Hand was graduated at Union College, in 1851, 

 studied law in his father's office, was admitted 

 to the bar in Ballston Spa, in 1854, and was in 

 practice with his father until 1859, when he 

 went to Albany and was for a short time as- 

 sociated with John V. L. Pruyn. In 1861 he 

 formed a connection as junior counsel with 

 Peter Cagger and John K. Porter, and when 

 the latter took his seat upon the bench, Mr. 

 Hand became an advocate in the Court of 

 Appeals. In January, 1869, he was appointed 

 the reporter of the court; in 1875 a member 

 of the State Commission on Reform of Munici- 

 pal Government, and in 1878 a Judge of the 

 Court of Appeals. % 



Harding, William G., an American stock- 

 breeder, born on Belle Meadefarm, near Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., in 1808; died there, Dec. 15, 1886. 

 At the age of fifteen he left school in Nash- 

 ville and pursued his education in an academy 

 at Williamstown, Conn., where he had for 

 classmates Gov. Horatio Seymour, of New 

 York, and Gov. Thomas Seymour, of Connect- 

 icut. Belle Meade was settled by his father, 

 who removed from Vermont in 1805, and pre- 

 empted two and a quarter sections of land. 

 On leaving the academy, William became asso- 

 ciated with his father in developing the place, 

 and on the death of his father in 1839 he in- 

 herited a fine tract, which by successive pur- 

 chases amounted to 1,400 acres. He continued 

 the improvements instituted by his father, 

 made further additions to the property, and 

 became known as the most successful agri- 

 culturist in Tennessee.- Both his father and 

 his grandfather were noted as breeders of the 

 blooded horse, and to this industry he gave 

 his attention. He trained and ran his own 

 horses with success, and achieved a wide repu- 

 tation on the turf. In 1867 he retired from 

 the track, and began his system of annual sales, 

 confining himself to the breeding and sale of 

 thoroughbred horses till the close of his life. 

 His most celebrated stallions are " Enquirer," 

 " Imported Great Tom," " Bramble," and 

 "Luke Blackburn." The live-stock on the 

 farm represented a value of $250,000. 



Hardy, Benjamin Franklin, an American phy- 

 sician, born in Kennebunk, Me., Jan. 28, 1808 ; 

 died in San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 22, 1886. 

 He was early left an orphan, and was edu- 

 cated at the Friends' boarding-school in Provi- 

 dence, R. I. Subsequently he studied at Hav- 

 erford College, and was graduated at the med- 

 ical department of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania in 1840. He then became attending 

 physician in Brockley Hospital, Philadelphia, 

 but later settled in New Bedford, Mass., where 

 he soon acquired a large practice. In 1856 

 he accepted the appointment of court physi- 

 cian, with charge of the marine hospital, in 

 the Hawaiian Islands, and filled these offices 

 for six years. He then removed to San Fran- 

 cisco, where the remainder of his life was 

 spent. Dr. Hardy was the founder of the San 

 Francisco Lying-in-Hospital and Foundling 

 Asylum, incorporated in 1868. The establish- 

 ment of this institution he regarded as his life- 

 work, and he was its manager, physician, and 

 surgeon, until failing health compelled him to 

 retire a few months before his death. 



Harrington, Calvin Sears, an American educa- 

 tor, born in 1826 ; died in Middletown, Conn., 

 Feb. 16, 1886. Prof. Harrington had been 

 connected with Wesleyan University for up- 

 ward of twenty-five years, first being in charge 

 of the department of Greek and Latin, but 

 afterward giving his entire attention to Latin. 

 About fifteen years ago he published an edi- 

 tion of the plays of Plautus, which became a 

 standard text-book. He was also the author 



