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Rh observations in co-operation with European nations. (See Greely. A. W.) In September, 1883, after the return of Lieut. Garlington's unsuccessful relief expedition, Gen. Hazen urged the secretary of war to despatch a sealer immediately to rescue Greely, and, his recommendation not having been acted upon, he severely censured Sec. Lincoln. In conse- quence of this, Gen. Hazen was court-martialed and reprimanded. Gen. Hazen introduced the "cold- wave signal," promoted the use of local and railway weather signals, organized special observations for the cotton-producing states, established frost warn- ings, and initiated forecasts for vessels coming to this country from Europe. He published "The School and the Army in Germany and Prance, with a Diary of Siege-Life at Versailles" (New York, 1872) ; " Barren Lands of the Interior of the United States " (Cincinnati, 1874) ; and " Narrative of Military Service" (Boston, 1885).

HAZEWELL, Charles Creighton, journalist, b. in Cranston, R. I., 1 Oct., 1814; d. in Revere, Mass., 6 Oct., 1883. He was chiefly self-educated, and learned printing in the office of the &ldquo;Providence Journal.&rdquo; From Providence he went to Boston, and was employed for a time on the &ldquo;Advocate,&rdquo; and then on the &ldquo;Post,&rdquo; where he was both printer and editor. Mr. Hazewell then edited the &ldquo;Nantucket Islander,&rdquo; and was editor and proprietor of the Concord, Mass., &ldquo;Freeman,&rdquo; for some time before 1845, when he removed to Columbus, Ohio. There he edited the &ldquo;Statesman,&rdquo; and was editor and proprietor of the &ldquo;Western Review.&rdquo; He wrote the entire contents of the few numbers of the &ldquo;Review&rdquo; that were published, in the intervals of his journalistic duties. He then returned to the east, took up his residence in Concord, and became connected with the &ldquo;Middlesex Freeman.&rdquo; In 1852 he was a member of the Massachusetts senate, and in 1853 represented Concord in the constitutional convention. Leaving the &ldquo;Freeman,&rdquo; he formed an editorial connection with the Boston &ldquo;Atlas,&rdquo; then with the &ldquo;Times,&rdquo; and in 1857 became an editorial writer on the &ldquo;Traveller,&rdquo; remaining with it until his death. He was for many years the American correspondent of the London &ldquo;Morning Post.&rdquo; He acquired French and Italian to aid him in his historical researches, and was regarded as an excellent authority on biographical and his- torical subjects. He is credited with having written a two-page New-Year's article, containing a summary of the events of the past year, entirely from memory, and substantially free from error. He wrote a long and critical obituary of Daniel Webster, on the announcement of his death, without reference to a book; and on one occasion designated correctly the page and paragraph in which would be found certain episodes, mentioned by Gibbon, in two editions, British and American, and widely different in size and paging. He was offered an important diplomatic appointment by President Lincoln, but declined it.—His son,, b. in 1853, is a journalist in Boston, and has written short poems that are popular.

HEAD, Sir George, b. near Rochester, Eng- land, in 1782; d. in England, 22 July, 1875, en- tered the British army, and served in the penin- sula from 1809 till 1814. He was sent to Canada in 1814, and while there went to Lake Huron to superintend the commissariat duties of a proposed naval establishment on the Canadian lakes. He went to Nova Scotia in 1816, and in 1831 he was knighted. Among other works he wrote " Forest Scenes and Incidents in the Wilds of North Ameri- ca " (1829) ; " A Home Tour " (1836-'7) ; " Rome : A Tour of Many Days " (London, 1849) ; and trans- lations of Cardinal Pacca's " Memoirs " (1850), and of " The Golden Ass of Apuleius " (1851). — His brother, Sir Francis Bond, British author, b. near Rochester, England, 1 Jan., 1793 ; d. in Croy- don, England, 20 July, 1875. He entered the army at an early age, and served in the corps of engineers at Waterloo and in the campaign under Welling- ton. In 1825 he took charge of an expedition that left England to work the gold and silver mines on the Rio de la Plata. While there he crossed the pampas four times and the Andes twice, and rode about 6,000 miles, most of the time unaccompanied. In 1828 he was retired on half -pay from the army, and in November, 1835, he was appointed lieuten- ant-governor of Upper Canada, which office he held until the latter part of 1837, when he resigned. In dealing with the rebellion that existed in Cana- da during his administration he has been accused of trifling with the disaffected, though this charge was generally regarded as fully refuted in his " Nar- rative " of these events (1839). In recognition of his services in suppressing the rebellion and in re- pelling incursions from the United States, he was created a baronet in 1838, and in 1867 became a privy councillor. Some time previous to his death the government granted him a pension of £100 per annum for his services to literature. He was the au- thor of numerous clever and amusing books, many of which were re-published in the United States. These include "Life of James Bruce" (London, 1830) ; " Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau " (1833); "The Emigrant" (1846); "Stokers and Pokers " (1850) ; " The Defenceless State of Great Britain " (1850) ; " A Faggot of French Sticks " (1851) ; " A Fortnight in Ireland " (1852) ; " Descrip- tive Essavs " (2 vols., 1857) ; " The Horse and his Rider" (1860); "The Royal Engineer" (1869); and "Sketch of the Life of Field-Marshal Sir John Burgoyne " (1872). His " Rough Notes," giving his South American experiences (1828), was written in such a spirited style that it obtained for him the name of " Galloping Head." — Another brother, Sir Edmund Walker, bart., governor-general of Canada, b. in Maidstone, Kent, England, in 1805 ; d. in London, 28 Jan., 1868. He was the son of the Rev. Sir John Head, whom he succeeded in the baronetcy in 1838. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford, becoming a fellow of Merton college in 1830, and was a tutor there for five years. After serv- ing as poor-law com- missioner he was lieutenant - govern- or of Nova Scotia in 1847-54, when he succeeded Lord El- gin as governor- Seneral of Canada, [is administration was distinguished in Upper Canada by the settlement of the matter of the clergy reserves, and in Lower Canada by that of seignorial tenure, by the construction of the Victoria tubular bridge, the selection of Ottawa as the capital of Canada, and by the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1860. In 1861 he retired from the government. In 1863 he was made a civil-service commissioner, and in 1867 he became a privy councillor. He has written "Shall and Will"; "Hand-Book of the History of the Spanish and French Schools of