=Fenner, Cornelius George.= _R. I._, 1822-1847. A Unitarian clergyman at one time in charge of a church at Cincinnati. Poems of Many Moods. =Fern, Fanny.= _See Parton, Mrs._ =Fernald, Charles Henry.= _Me._, 1838- ----. A naturalist who has been professor of zoölogy at Massachusetts Agricultural College since 1886. Tortricidæ of North America; Butterflies of Maine; Grasses of Maine; Sphingidæ of New England. =Fernald, Chester Bailey.= _Ms._, 1869- - ----. A littérateur of San Francisco. The Cat and the Cherub, and Other Stories. _Cent._ =Fernald, James Champlin.= _Me._, 1838- ----. The Economics of Prohibition; The New Womanhood. =Ferrel, William.= _Pa._, 1817-1891. A distinguished meteorologist employed at various times in the Coast Survey and the Signal Service. Recent Advances in Meteorology; Popular Treatise on the Winds; Motions of Fluids and Solids on the Earth’s Surface. _Wil._ =Ferris, George Titus.= _Ct._, 1840- ----. Great German Composers; Great Italian and French Composers; Great Singers; Great Violinists and Pianists; Great Leaders. _Ap._ =Fessenden, Thomas Green.= _N. H._, 1771-1837. An agricultural writer of Boston who edited the New England Farmer and similar journals, but in earlier life won considerable attention as a satirical poet under the name of Christopher Caustic. Country Lovers and The Terrible Tractoration are the poems by which he is remembered. He published Original Poems; The Ladies’ Monitor; American Clerk’s Companion; Democracy Unveiled; Pills, Poetical, Political, and Philosophical; Laws of Patents for New Inventions. _See Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, and Other Pieces._ =Festetitts, Mrs. Kate [Neely].= _Va._, 1837- ----. A writer of children’s books whose home has been in Washington since 1885. Ellie Randolph; A Year at Dangerfield. =Feuchtwanger, Lewis.= _G._, 1805-1876. A once noted chemist of New York city who came to America from Germany in 1829. Popular Treatise on Gems; Elements of Mineralogy; Treatise on Fermented Liquors; Practical Treatise on Soluble or Water Glass. =Fewkes, Jesse Walter.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. An ethnologist of Boston who has written valuable professional monographs and edited the Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology. _Hou._ =Ficklin, Joseph.= _Ky._, 1833-1887. A professor of mathematics in the University of Missouri who published The Complete Algebra; Elements of Algebra, and a series of arithmetical text-books. =Field, Mrs. Caroline Leslie [Whitney].= _Ms._, 1853-1902. Daughter of Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, _infra_. A writer of Guilford, Connecticut. High Lights, a novel; The Unseen King, and Other Verses. _Hou._ =Field, David Dudley.= _Ct._, 1781-1867. A Congregational clergyman of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. History of Pittsfield; Genealogy of the Brainerd Family; Histories of the Counties of Berkshire and Middlesex.