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HARVEY, William Henry (1811-66), colonial treasurer, 

 Cape Town, 1836-42 ; professor of botany, Dublin, 1856 ; 

 travelled in S. Africa, India, Australia, and Pacific ; works 

 on S. African plants, etc. 



HAUGHTON, Kev. Samuel (1821-97), F.R.S., professor 

 of geology, Dublin Univ., 1851-81 ; M.D., Dublin, 1862 ; 

 registrar, etc., of medical school ; president, Koyal Zoological 

 Soc. of Ireland, 1860 ; do., Koyal Irish Academy, 1887. 



HENDERSON, Thomas (1798-1844), F.E.S., H.M. astro- 

 nomer at Cape of Good Hope, 1832-33 ; astronomer royal 

 for Scotland and professor of practical astronomy, Univ. 

 of Edinburgh, 1834-44. 



HENSLOW, Kev. John Stevens (1796-1861), F.R.S., 

 professor of mineralogy, Cambridge Univ., 1822-25 ; pro- 

 fessor of botany, ibid., 1825-32 ; geologist and biologist ; 

 influenced scientific work of Charles Darwin and introduced 

 him to Fitzroy, of H.M.S. Beagle. 



HERSCHEL, Alexander Stewart (1836-1907), F.R.S., 

 professor of mechanical and experimental physics, Glasgow 

 Univ., 1866-71 ; first professor of physics and experimental 

 philosophy, Coll. of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1871-86. 



HIRST, Thomas Archer (1830-92), F.R.S. ; professor of 

 physics, Univ. Coll., London, 1865 ; professor of pure mathe- 

 matics, ibid., 1866-70 ; director of naval studies, Koyal 

 Naval Coll., Greenwich, 1873-83 ; general secretary, B.A., 

 1866-71. 



HODGKIN, Thomas (1796-1866), curator and pathologist, 

 Guy's Hospital, 1825 ; a founder of Aborigines Protection 

 Soc., 1838. 



HOPKINSON, John (1849-98), F.R.S. , consulting electrical 

 engineer and inventor ; professor of electrical engineering, 

 King's College, London, 1890. 



HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, Baron von 

 (1769-1859), born at Berlin ; travelled in Orinoco and 

 Amazon basins, Andes, Mexico, etc., 1799-1804 ; Siberia, 

 1829 ; naturalist, geographer, and meteorologist ; author 

 of Kosmos, 1845 seqq. 



HUME, Kev. Abraham (1814-84), F.R.S., vicar of 



