=Coffin, James Henry.= _Ms._, 1806-1873. A meteorologist who was professor of astronomy at Lafayette College. Solar and Lunar Eclipses Illustrated and Explained; Winds of the Northern Hemisphere; Psychometrical Table; Orbit and Phenomena of a Meteoric Fire Ball; Elements of Conic Sections and Analytical Geometry; Winds of the Globe. See Life, _by J. C. Clyde, 1882._ =Coffin, John Huntington Crane.= _Me._, 1815-1890. A mathematician of distinction. Observations with the Mural Circle at the United States Naval Observatory; The Compass; Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. =Coffin, Joshua.= _Ms._, 1792-1864. A Massachusetts antiquary prominent among the abolitionists, and one of the poet Whittier’s early instructors. He published a History of Ancient Newbury; The Toppans of Toppan’s Lane, a genealogy. =Coffin, Robert Allen.= _Ms._, 1801-1878. Brother of J. H. Coffin, _supra_. An instructor in western Massachusetts. Compendium of Natural Philosophy; Town Organization; History of Conway, Massachusetts. =Coffin, Robert Barry.= “Barry Gray.” _N. Y._, 1826-1886. A New York journalist and littérateur, whose books, popular at one time, are now nearly forgotten. Their humour is somewhat forced, and the style has no very marked merits. Matrimonial Infelicities; Who is the Heir?; Out of Town, a Rural Episode; Cakes and Ale at Woodbine; Castles in the Air; Left in the Lurch; The Home of Cooper. =Coffin, Robert Stevenson.= _Me._, 1797-1827. A verse-writer of Boston who published The Oriental Harp; Poems of the Boston Bard. _See Autobiography, 1825._ =Coffin, Roland Folger.= _N. Y._, 1826-1888. A marine reporter in New York city. An Old Sailor’s Yarns; The America’s Cup; History of American Yachting. _Fu. Scr._ =Coffin, Selden Jennings.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. Son of J. H. Coffin, _supra_. He succeeded his father as professor of astronomy at Lafayette College in 1873, and completed the latter’s Winds of the Globe. He has also published Record of the Men at Lafayette. =Coggeshall, George.= _Ct._, 1784-_c._ 1850. A sea captain of some prominence as a writer. Voyages to Various Parts of the World, 1799-1844; History of American Privateers and Letters of Marque during our War with England, 1812-14; Historical Sketch of Commerce and Navigation from the Christian Era to 1860; Religious and Miscellaneous Poetry. =Coggeshall, William Turner.= _Pa._, 1824-1867. A journalist of Cincinnati, whose principal writings include Signs of the Times, a work on spirit rappings; Home Hits and Hints; Stories of Frontier Adventure. =Cogswell, Jonathan.= _Ms._, 1782-1864. A noted Congregational clergyman of New England and New Jersey. The Necessity of Capital Punishment; Discourses; Hebrew Theocracy; Calvary and Sinai; Godliness a Great Mystery; The Appropriate Work of the Holy Spirit. _See E. O. Jameson’s Cogswells of America._