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Rh vellous. His work is an inexhaustible mine of facts, and writers who have treated the same sub- ject after him have taken him for their guide and model. The two first decades were translated into French by Nicolas de la Coste (3 vols., Paris, 1660-'71). There is an English translation by John Stevens (6 vols., London, 1725-'6). Herrera wrote " Descripcion de las Indias occidentales " (Madrid, 1601), which is also found at the end of the first edition of the preceding work. It was translated into Latin by Van Baerl, and inserted in the collection which he printed under the title " Novus orbis, sive Descriptio Indiae occidentalis " (Amsterdam, 1622). Herrera also wrote several other works dealing with European history.

HERRICK, Anson, journalist, b. in Lewiston, Me., 21 Jan., 1812 ; d. in New York city, 5 Feb., 1868. His father was a representative in congress from Maine. The son received a common-school education, and at the age of fifteen was appren- ticed to a printer. In 1833 he established •' The Citizen" at Wiscassett, Me., and in 1836 removed to New York city and worked as a journeyman printer till 1838, when he began the publication of the New York "Atlas," a weekly journal. In 1857 he was appointed naval store-keeper of the port of New York, and in 1862 was elected to con- fress as a Democrat, serving from 3 Dec, 1863, to March, 1865. He was a delegate in 1866 to the National Union convention at Philadelphia.

HERRICK, Edward Claudius, scientist, b. in New Haven, Conn., 24 Feb., 1811 ; d. there, 11 June, 1862. He received an academical education, be- came a bookseller in New Haven, and in 1843 was appointed librarian of Yale college. In 1852 he became treasurer of the college, and in 1858 re- signed the post of librarian. After the death of Prof. James L. Kingsley in 1852, he took charge of the preparation of the triennial catalogue, and the annual obituary records. He also had supervision of the college property. Aside from his duties in the college he took an active part in municipal politics, and filled various offices. He devoted himself with enthusiasm to the sciences of astrono- my and meteorology, and made important discov- eries, especially in relation to the periodical occur- rence of meteoric showers. He published in the I American Journal of Science " the results of his observations in these branches, notably papers on the meteoric showers of August, and on the exist- ence of a planet between Mercury and the sun ; also papers on entomological subjects, one of which, treating of the Hessian fly and its para- sites, was the fruit of nine years of patient inves- tigation. There is a stained-glass window to his memory in the Battell chapel of Yale.

HERRICK, John Russell, clergyman, b. in Milton, Vt., 12 May, 1822. He was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1847, studied theol- ogy at Andover seminary for two years, and at the theological seminary in Auburn, N. Y., where he was graduated in 1852. He was pastor of a Con- gpgationalist church at Malone, N. Y., from 1854 till 1867, when he became professor of systematic theology at Bangor, Me. In 1874 he returned to the pastorate, taking charge of a church in South Hadley, Mass. In 1880 Dr. Herrick became presi- dent of Pacific university at Forest Grove, Oregon, and in 1883 of the recently founded Dakota uni- versity in Vermillion, Dakota. He has contributed articles on theological and philosophical subjects to reviews, and published a volume of Boston lec- tures on " Positivism " (Boston, 1870).

HERRICK, Joshua, politician, b. in Beverly, Mass., 18 March, 1793 ; d. in Alfred, Me., 30 Aug., 1874. He received a common-school education, removed to the district of Maine in 1811, settled in Brunswick, engaged in lumbering on the An* droscoggin, and was interested in the first cotton- mill in Maine. In 1829 he was appointed by Presi- dent Jackson deputy collector and inspector of customs at Kennebunkport, which post he retained until 1841. He was a Democratic representative in congress in 1843-'5, deputy collector at Kenne- bunkport again in 1847-'9, and register of probate in York county from 1849 till 1855. He was a friend of Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse, and one of the promoters of the first line of telegraph built between Washington and Baltimore in 1844.

HERRICK, Samuel Edward, clergyman, b. in Southampton, N. Y, 6 April, 1841. He was graduated at Amherst in 1859, was a teacher two years, studied theology at Princeton seminary, where he was graduated in 1861, and was ordained pastor of the Presbvterian church at Wappinger s Falls, N. Y, on 13 Oct., 1863. From 1864 till 1871 hp was pastor of a Congregational church at Chelsea, Mass., and afterward of the Mount Vernon church in Boston. He is the author of " Some Heretics of Yesterdav." historical essavs (Boston, 1884).

HERRICK, Sophie Mcllvaine Bledsoe, editor, b. in Gambier, Ohio, 26 March, 1837. She is the daughter of Dr. Albert T. Bledsoe, and in 1860 married James Burton Herrick. Her education was received first at home under the direction of her father, and then at the Cooper female institute in Dayton, Ohio. From 1868 till 1872 she was prin- cipal of a school in Baltimore. In 1874 she became associated with her father in the editorial manage- ment of the " Southern Review,"' becoming editor- in-chief in 1877. A year later she joined the edi- torial staff of " Scribner's Monthly " (now the " Century '"). Mrs. Herrick is known as a skilful microscopist, and has described her investigations in numerous articles, illustrated by herself. She has published " The Wonders of Plant Life " (New York. 1883) and "Chapters in Plant Life" (1885).

HERRICK, Stephen Solon, physician and surgeon, b. in West Randolph, Vt., 11 Dec, 1833. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1854, and taught in Kentucky and Mississippi till 1859. He then studied medicine, and was graduated M. D. at the University of Louisiana in 1861. He served as assistant surgeon in the Confederate army in 1862-*3, and afterward in the navy of the Confederacy till the end of the war, and then returned to New Orleans to practise. He was one of the editors of the New Orleans "Medical and Surgical Journal " in 1866-'7, visiting surgeon in the New Orleans charity hospital in 1865-'9, a member of the Louisiana board of health, and professor of chemistry in the New Orleans school of medicine in 1869-70. For several years between 1870 and 1877 he was a sanitary inspector, and in 1877-'9 inspector of coal-oil. In 1876 he became professor of chemistry and physics in the Agricultural and mechanical college of Louisiana, and retained that post for two years. In 1878 he resumed his editorial connection with the New Orleans " Medical Journal." In 1879 he became secretary of the state board of health. He has contributed to the medical journals of New Orleans, Louisville, Philadelphia, and New York, and in 1869 received a prize from the American medical association for an essay on " Quinine." The " Transactions " of the American public health association and of the American medical association contain papers by him; also the "Transactions" of the Louisiana medical society, of which he became corresponding secretary in 1878. He has contributed also to