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340 co, 1866) contains the description of 175 rare books and is accompanied by important notes. He has recently published " Historia eclesiastica indiana, obra escrita a fines del Siglo xvi. por Fr. Geronimo Mendieta de la orden de San Francisco " (Mexico, 1870). This manuscript, supposed to be lost, Icazbalceta brought from Spain.

IDDINGS, Joseph Paxton, geologist, b. in Baltimore, Md., 21 Jan., 1857. He was graduated at the Sheffield scientific school of Yale in 1877, and subsequently studied analytical chemistry there, while serving as assistant in mechanical drawing and surveying. Subsequently he studied geology under Prof. John S. Newberry, at Columbia, and spent the winter of 1879-80 in Heidelberg, working in microscopic petrography. In July, 1880, he was appointed assistant geologist on the U. S. geological survey, under Arnold Hague. His scientific papers, published in the " American Journal of Science " and the " Bulletin H of the United States geological survey, include " Notes on the Volcanoes of Northern California, Oregon, and Washington Territory " with Arnold Hague (1883) ; "The Columnar Structure in the Igneous Rock on Orange Mountain, New Jersey " (1886) ; and " The Nature and Origin of Lithophysae and the Lamination of Acid Lavas " (1887).

IDE, George Barton, clergyman, b. in Coventry, Vt., in 1804 : d. in Springfield, Mass., 16 April, 1872. He was the son of a Baptist minister, but held skeptical opinions in his youth, until during a revival in Coventry he received religious impressions. He thereupon abandoned the study of law, which he had pursued at Brandon, and entered Middlebury college to prepare himself for the ministry. He was ordained soon after his graduation in 1830, and was pastor in several places, becoming known throughout northern Vermont as an eloquent revivalist. In 1834 he removed to Albany, N. Y., and in 1835 to Boston, Mass., and after a three years' pastorate took charge of the 1st Baptist church in Philadelphia, Pa., where he remained fourteen years. The last twenty years of his life were spent as pastor in Springfield. He published "Green Hollow" (Philadelphia, 1852); "Battle Echoes, or Lessons from the War," a series of sermons preached during the civil war (Boston, 1866) ; " Bible Pictures," describing the lives and deeds of Christ and his apostles (1867) ; and vari- ous polemical works and Sunday-school books.

IDIAQUEZ, Lope de (e-de'-ah-keth), Spanish soldier, b. in the latter part of the 15th century; d. in Chili about 1550. He participated in the conquest of Cuba under Diego Velasquez, and in 1519 went to Mexico, where he served under Pedro de Alvarado till the subjugation of the Mexicans. Afterward he accompanied Alvarado to Guatemala, subsequently was with Pizarro in his enterprise, and made an unsuccessful attempt to reconcile him with Almagro. He prepared the conferences of Mara and was present at the battle of Las Salinas, 6 April, 1538, where Almagro was defeated. It is believed that in 1541 he went to Spain. In 1542 he was commissioned by Diego de Almagro, the son, to make an agreement with the governor, Vaca de Castro, on the eve of the battle of Chupas, and, though he was not well received by De Castro, on his return to Almagro he was regarded as a traitor. Offended by this treatment, he joined the forces of De Castro, but after Almagro's defeat exerted his influence in the latter's favor. Then Idiaquez retired to Lima, but in 1549 went with Valdivia in his second expedition to Chili and in the campaigning of the south. He is supposed to have perished in the campaign against the Araucanians about 1550.

IETERSDORF-KLASTEN, Gustav von (e-ters-dorf), German explorer, b. in Neu Breisach in 1609; d. in Cologne in 1669. He was descended from an ancient family of the Palatinate and served in the Bavarian army till 1634, when he became a Dominican monk, and was attached in the following year to the South American missions. He resided for twenty years in Hispaniola, Cuba, and other West Indian islands, was elected provincial of his order for the West Indian missions in 1649, and founded several colleges in Hispaniola. He went also to Guatemala as provincial in 1653, but was compelled three years later to return to Europe in broken health. After a few months he prepared to sail for America again, but his family opposed his departure, and he settled in Cologne, where he became a canon in the cathedral and devoted the remainder of his life to arranging his notes on America. He published &ldquo;Lexicon Linguæ Caraïbæ&rdquo; (Cologne, 1659); &ldquo;Grammatica Linguæ Caraïbæ&rdquo; (1661); &ldquo;Gebräuche, Sitten und Producte von Cuba, Hispaniola und einiger anderer Westindischer Inseln,&rdquo; the original edition of which is very rare, one copy having brought at Didot's sale in Paris in 1853, $6,720 (1665); and &ldquo;Relatio Gestorum a primis ordinis Prædicatorum missionariis in insulis Americanis, præsertim apud Indigenes quos Caraïbes vulgo dicunt, ab anno 1635, ad annum 1653&rdquo; (3 vols., 1768). The dictionary and the grammar of the idiom of the Caribs are yet considered as the most complete documents on the language of those people.

IFF, Simon van, Dutch physician, b. in Ypres in 1605; d. in Amsterdam in 1651. He practised medicine in Tobago and Surinam, and was appointed in 1637 physician to Count Maurice of Nassau, governor-general of the Dutch possessions in South America. Owing to the protection of that prince, he explored, in company with George Marggraff, the countries that are now known as Guiana and Brazil, advancing as far south as Pernambuco, and thence returned to Surinam. He discovered the properties of the ipecacuanha-bark, and imported some seeds of the tree into Europe. The name of Iff has been given to a plant of the family of Rhinantoceæ that grows in Brazil. He published &ldquo;De Medicina Brasiliensis,&rdquo; which was a standard book on the continent for about a century (Leyden, 1648); &ldquo;Les longs tracas et tournoiements d'un voyageur en Guyane et au Brésil, avec les mœurs des habitants, leurs usages, les productions du pays, suivi d'un traité sur les plantes médicinales propres à ces regions&rdquo; (Amsterdam, 1650); &ldquo;Verhandelinge over de Taback&rdquo; (1649); &ldquo;De plantibus Brasiliensis&rdquo;; and other books.

IGLESIAS, Angel (e-glayj-syas), Mexican physician, b. in the city of Mexico, 2 Oct., 1829 ; d. there, 10 May, 1870. He studied at the College of San Gregorio, afterward, while a student at the College of medicine during the American invasion in 1847, enlisted in a battalion of volunteers, but was soon ordered to duty as assistant of Dr. Pedro Van der Linden in the hospital of San Sebastian. He also studied French, English, and natural history in the mining college, and in 1853 was graduated as doctor in medicine and surgery, afterward occupying for some time in the college the chair of physics and operative medicine. He went to Europe in 1854 to perfect his studies, and on his return to Mexico introduced the ophthalmoscope and published several articles about it in "La union medica." After a second visit to Europe he introduced "cow-pox" virus taken from the German government farm, and established near Mexico a farm for its propagation, thus superseding the use of old and