It seems most remarkable that in Hudson’s honor, as a discoverer, should have been named a _strait_ (Hudson strait discovered by Sebastian Cabot in 1517), _Hudson bay_, the _Hudson Bay Company territory_, which originally included all the land which was drained into Hudson bay—territory ample for an empire—which Hudson did not discover and probably never put his foot on its soil, and the _Hudson river_, which has been clearly shown he did not discover. Unless the word _discoverer_ has a different meaning from what the public understand by it and lexicographers primarily ascribe to it, Hudson, in none of these cases, was a _discoverer_. He was an _explorer_, and as such was a benefactor, and deserved credit. We would “render unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar’s.” Henry Hudson was a bold, skillful navigator, a careful explorer, and had the ability and spirit to have made important discoveries had the time and circumstances favored. It often happens that the discoverer, the inventor, merits less honor than the party coming after, who makes that discovery or invention serviceable—useful, as it had not been before. Robert Fulton was not the discoverer of the application of steam as a motive power in navigation, but he built the “Clermont”—propelled it by steam from New York to Albany, took the wind out of sails, revolutionized navigation, and received the honors. Samuel Finley Breese Morse was not the discoverer, the inventor of the electrical telegraph, but he made it serviceable—of practical utility—almost ignoring distance in the transmission of news, and he won the honors. Henry Hudson did not discover a new and shorter water route to India, nor did he discover the Hudson river. He, however, did _explore_ the Hudson river, and his glowing accounts of it, and the country through which it flows, attracted immigration, settlements, and was an important element in the founding of the new nation in the western world. The name, it is to be hoped, the _true_ name of Hudson, _Henry_, and not _Hendrick_, will be cherished, for whom living, so little was done. His widow, in extreme poverty, applied to the British government for another of her sons, and he was received and sent to the Government Naval School, and an allowance was made for his outfit. Henry Hudson appears to have had a large family.