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Rh medical lectures. In 1847 he began the compilation of " Cutter's Physiology," a text-book for schools and colleges, of which, prior to 1871, about 500,000 copies had been sold. It has been translated into several oriental languages. In 1856 Dr. Cutter was chosen to convey a supply of Sharpe's rifles to Kansas, a hazardous task, which was successfully performed. Later in the same year he led into Kansas the Worcester armed company of sixty men. and also the force known as " Jim Lane's army," which he commanded for nearly a year. He was president of the military council in Kansas, and instrumental in the capture of Col. Titus. In 1861 Dr. Cutter became surgeon of the 21st Massa- chusetts infantry, and served in the national army nearly three years. He was twice wounded, and made prisoner at Bull Run. During most of his term of service he had charge of the medical depot of the 9th army corps as surgeon-in-chief.

CUTTER, Charles Ammi, author, b. 14 March. 1837. He was graduated at Harvard in 1855, and appointed librarian of the Boston athengeum in January, 1869. an office that he held ten years. He has prepared a new classification for libraries, and written " Rules for a Printed Dictionary Cata- logue" (Washington bureau of education, 1876); " Boston AthenjBum : How to get Books, with an Explanation of the New Way of marking Books " (Boston, 1882) ; and edited " Catalogue of the Li- brary of the Boston Athenjeum, 1807-71 " (5 vols., Boston, 1874-'82). Since January. 1881, he has edited the "Library Journal" of New York.

CUTTER, George Washington, poet, b. in Massachusetts in 1801 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 24 Dec, 1865. He studied law, and followed his pro- fession with success in Kentucky until about 1845. During the Mexican war he raised a company of infantry, of which he became captain, and which subsequently was included in the 2d Kentucky vol- unteers under Coll McKee. Later he married Miss Drake, an actress of Cincinnati, and for a time made his home in Covington, Ky. Afterward he became interested in politics, and was known fa- vorably as an eloquent orator. His services were rewarded with a clerkship in the treasury depart- ment, an office that he retained during several ad- ministrations. " The Song of Steam," " The Song of the Lightning," and " E Pluribus Unum," are his best-known pieces. He published " Buena Vis- ta and other Poems " (Cincinnati, 1848) ; " Song of Steam and other Poems " (1857) ; and " Poems, Na- tional and Patriotic " (Philadelphia, 1857).

CUTTING, Francis Brockholst, Jurist, b. in New York city in 1805 ; d. there, 26 June, 1870. He studied at Columbia, was admitted to the bar, and rapidly rose to distinction in his profession. In 1836 he was elected a member of the state legis- lature, as a democrat. From 1840 till 1853 he de- voted himself to his large and lucrative practice in his native city, and from 1853 till 1855 represented one of its districts in congress, where he was a war democrat. On the renomination of Abraham Lin- coln for the presidency, he aided in his re-election, and thereafter was active in supporting the cause of the Union. After the war Mr. Cutting retired froin politics and quietly pursiied his profession.

CUTTING, Hiram Adolphus, geologist, b. in Concord, Vt., 23 Dec, 1832 ; d. in Lunenburgh, Vt., 18 April, 1892. After teaching the natural sciences in the seminary at Montpelier. and in Nor- wich university, he was appointed in 1871 curator of the state cabinet of natural history, and in 1872 became state geologist of Vermont. In 1880 he was made secretary of the board of agriculture, and in 1881 fish commissioner. He has made nu- merous experiments on the growth of plants, the means and proper methods of fertilizing the soil, and various observations on insects. His publica- tions include " Mining in Vermont " (MontpeUer, 1872) ; " Meteorological Tables and Climatology of Vermont " (1877) ; " Microscopic Revelations " (1878) ; " Farm Pests, including Insects, Fungi, and Animalcules" (Manchester, 1879); "Notes on Building Stones, also on Plant Growth " (Montpe- lier, 1880) ; " Lectures on Plants, Fertilization, In- sects, Forestry, Farm Homes," etc. (1882) ; " Lec- tures on Milk, Fertilization," etc. (1884) ; " Scien- tific Lectures " (1884) ; " Farm Lectures " (1884) ; and also "Reports of Geologist and Curator of State Cabinet " (1874-'80) ; " Biennial Reports of Fish Commissioners of Vermont " (1881-'2 et seq.) ; and " Vermont Agricultural Reports " (1882 et seq.). Prof. Cutting has for many years lectured during the winter months on " The Bible : its History and Scientific Relations"; "God in Creation," etc.

CUTTING, James Ambrose, inventor, b. in Massacliusctts in 1814 ; d. in Worcester, Mass., 31 July, 1807. His early years were spent in Haver- hill, Mass., where he lived in straitened circum- stances. He invented a new bee-hive, and for the patent received sufficient encouragement to settle in Boston, where he then devised several im- proved processes, but deriving no important benefit from them, and soon lost all his property. After- ward turning his attention to the new art of making daguerreotypes, he discovered the process of making pictures on glass, which after his own name he called ambrotypes. This he at once pat- ented, and then disposed of his rights, both in this country and abroad. He established an aquarium in Boston, and subsequently the aquarial gardens.

CUTTING, Sewall Sylvester, educator, b. in Windsor, Vt., 19 Jan., 1813 ; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 7 Feb., 1882. Pie was graduated at the University of Vermont, and in 1836 was ordained pastor of the Baptist church in West Boylston, Mass., but soon removed to Southbridge, Mass., where he remained eight years as pastor of the Baptist church in that place. In 1845 he assumed edi- torial charge of the " Baptist Ad- vocate" in New York, changing its name to the "New York Recorder." In his hands the pa- per at once rose in character and greatly increased in circulation. In 1850 he retired from the " Recorder," and was for a short time secretary of the American and Foreign Bible so- ciety. From 1849 till 1852 he was editor of the "Christian Review," and from 1851 till 1853 was on the editorial staff of the " Watchman and Reflector," published in Boston. In the last-named year he was i-ecalled to the editorship of the " New York Recorder." In 1855, in connection with Dr. Edward Bright, he bought the New York " Baptist Register," consolidating it with the "Recorder," and changing the name to " The Ex-