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=Horn, Edward Traill.= _Pa._, 1850- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of
Charleston. The Christian Year; Old Matin and Vesper Services of the
Lutheran Church; Outlines of Liturgics; The Evangelical Pastor.
=Hornaday, William Temple.= _Ind._, 1854- ----. A naturalist of
Washington, for eight years chief taxidermist of the National Museum.
Two Years in the Jungle; The Buffalo Hunt; Canoe and Rifle on the
Orinoco; Free Rum on the Congo; Taxidermy and Zoölogical Collecting.
_Scr._
=Horner, William Edmunds.= _Va._, 1793-1853. A physician of
Philadelphia, professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania,
1819-53. Special Anatomy and Histology; United States Dissector;
Anatomical Atlas; Pathological Anatomy. _See Gross’s Sketches of
Contemporaries._
=Horsfield, Thomas.= _Pa._, 1773-1859. A naturalist and traveller
who was a native of Philadelphia, but was in the employ of the East
India Company, and lived in England after 1820. Lepidopterous Insects;
Zoölogical Researches in Java. _See Dictionary of National Biography,
vol. 27._
=Horsford, Eben Norton.= _N. Y._, 1818-1893. A chemist of Cambridge
who was Rumford professor at Harvard University, 1847-63. He was the
discoverer of acid phosphate, and one of the founders of the Lawrence
Scientific School at Harvard. Theory and Art of Breadmaking; The Army
Ration; Discovery of America by Northmen. _Hou._
=Horsford, Mrs. Mary L’Hommedieu [Gardiner].= _N. Y._, 1824-1855. Wife
of E. N. Horsford, _supra_, and author of Indian Legends and Other
Poems.
=Horsmanden, Daniel.= _E._, 1691-1778. A jurist of New York city. The
New York Conspiracy, or the History of the Negro Plot; Letters to
Governor Clinton.
=Horton, George Forman.= _Pa._, 1808-1888. A lawyer of Terrytown,
Pennsylvania. Geology of Bradford County, Pennsylvania; The Horton
Genealogy.
=Horton, Samuel Dana.= _O._, 1844-1895. A publicist of Pomeroy, Ohio,
eminent as an advocate of bimetallism. Silver and Gold; The Silver
Pound and England’s Monetary Position since the Restoration, with a
History of the Guinea; Silver in Europe. _Clke. Mac._
=Hosack, David.= _N. Y._, 1769-1835. An eminent physician and scientist
of New York city who founded the first botanic garden in America.
Contagious Diseases; Vision; Hortus Elginensis; Memoir of Hugh
Williamson; Memoirs of De Witt Clinton; Essays on Medical Science;
Theory and Practice of Medicine.
=Hoskins, Nathan.= _Vt._, 1795-1869. A lawyer of Vermont and
Massachusetts. History of Vermont; Notes in the West; The Bennington
Court Controversy.
=Hosmer, Frederick Lucian.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of
Chicago. The Way of Life; The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems (with
W. C. Gannett, _supra_). _Rob._
=Hosmer, George Washington.= 1846- ----. A physician. The People and
Politics; As We Went Marching On, a Story of the War. _Har. Hou._
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