=Abbe, Cleveland.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A meteorologist of distinction who in 1871 became professor of meteorology in the national weather bureau and has since continued in that position. The more important of his many publications include Solar Spots and Terrestrial Temperature; A Plea for Terrestrial Physics; Atmospheric Radiation; Treatise on Meteorological Apparatus; Preparatory Studies for Deductive Methods in Meteorology. =Abbe, Frederick Randolph.= _Ct._, 1827-1889. A Congregational clergyman in Massachusetts. The Temple Rebuilt, a Poem of Christian Faith. =Abbey, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. A resident of Kingston, New York, who has published several collections of pleasant unpretentious verse. Ballads of Good Deeds; The City of Success; May Dreams; Ralph and Other Poems; Stories in Verse. =Abbey, Richard.= _N. Y._, 1805-1891. A prominent clergyman of the Southern Methodist Church, among whose many theological and controversial writings are, End of the Apostolical Succession; Creed of All Men; Diuturnity; Ecce Ecclesia, a reply to Ecce Homo; The City of God and the Church Makers. =Abbot, Abiel.= _N. H._, 1765-1859. A Congregational clergyman of Connecticut and Massachusetts. History of Andover; Genealogy of the Abbot Family. =Abbot, Abiel.= _Ms._, 1770-1828. A Congregational clergyman of Beverly, Massachusetts. Letters from Cuba. His Sermons with Memoir were published in 1831. =Abbot, Ezra.= _Me._, 1819-1884. A Unitarian biblical scholar of much prominence, who was for many years a professor in the Divinity School of Harvard University, and widely known for the extent of his bibliographical acquirements. Literature of the Doctrine of a Future Life; Authenticity of the Fourth Gospel; The Fourth Gospel and Other Critical Essays. With H. B. Hackett, _infra_, he prepared the American edition of Smith’s Bible Dictionary. _See Memorial of, 1884. El._ =Abbot, Francis Ellingwood.= _Ms._, 1836-1903. A religious and philosophical thinker of advanced views, for some years editor of The Index, whose home was at Cambridge. Scientific Theism; The Way out of Agnosticism. _Lit._ =Abbot, Gorham Dummer.= _Me._, 1807-1874. A Congregational clergyman, long an educator of New York city. He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, _infra_, but returned to an older spelling of his surname. Prayer-Book for the Young; Pleasure and Profit; The Family at Home. =Abbot, Henry Larcom.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. A general in the United States army, of prominence as an engineer. Besides several series of Professional Papers, his writings include Lectures on the Defence of the Sea Coast of the United States; Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River. _Vn._