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146 with cordiality by President Jefferson, and, leaving this country, landed at Bordeaux, 3 Aug., 1804, hav- ing spent five years in America, and gained a larger store of observations and collections in all depart- ments of natural science, geography, statistics, and ethnography than all previous travellers. His sub- sequent life was devoted to the prosecution of sci- entific research and discovery. His journey in South America is an important event in the his- has designed many prominent buildings, public and private, in New York and elsewhere, among which may be mentioned the Fifth avenue addition to the Metropolitan art museum in Central park. New York, the first sketches for which were drawn by his father (see accompanying illustration); Kissam hall at Nashville, Tenn. ; the residence for William K. Vanderbilt at Oakdale, Long Island ; and vari- ous other city and country houses. He succeeded

tory of that country. With his own hands he made the map of the Orinoco and the Magdalena, and a part of the atlas of Mexico. He travelled with the barometer in his hands from Bogota to Lima, and made 459 measurements of altitudes, which were often confirmed by trigonometrical calcula- tions. Humboldt discovered the dahlia, a small, single flower, in Mexico, which received its name from his friend. Prof. Andrew Dahl, the botanist. His works include "Ansichten der Natur," a general sketch of the results of his intjuiries in America (Stuttgart, 1808), and " Kosmos " (5 vols., 184o-'62). Many biographies of him have ap- peared, the best being " Alexander von Hum- boldt, eine wissenschaftliehe Biographic," edited by Karl Bruhns (3 vols., Leipsic, 1873 ; English translation by Jane and (Caroline Lassells, 3 vols., London, 1873). His most important works relat- ing to America are "Voyage aux regions equi- noxialesdunouveau continent dans les annees 1799 a 1804 "(Paris, 1807-'16), and " Ifesai politique sur leroyaume de la Nouvelle Espagne " (Paris, 1811).

HUMPHREYS, West Hnghes, jurist, b. in Montgomery county, Tenn., 5 Aug., 1806 ; d. in Nashville, Tenn., 5 Oct., 1883. He was educated atTransylvania university, Lexington, and licensed to practise law in 1828. He was a member of the Tennessee constitutional convention in 1834, of the legislature for several years, became attor- ney-general in 1839, and was reporter of the state supreme court in 1839-'51. He was appointed U. S. district judge by President Pierce, held office till the beginning of the civil war, and, espousing the Confederate cause, was reappointed to the po- sition umler that government. Judge Humph- reys published " Reports of the Supreme Court of Tennessee" (11 vols., Nashville, 1839-'51).

HUNT, Richard Howland, architect, b. in Paris, France, 14 March, 1803, is the son of Richard Morris Hunt {q. v.). He chose to follow the profes- sion of his lather, studied at the Massachusetts in- stitute of technology as a special student during 1879, 1880, and 1883, spent four years at the Ecole dos beaux-arts in Paris, and for the last eight years of his father's life was associated with him. He his father as architect on the works at the U. S. military academy at West Point, and on George Vanilerbilt's estate at Biltmore. N. C.

HURD, Harvey Bostwick, lawyer, b. in Hunt- ington, Conn., 14 Feb., 1838. He was graduated at Jubilee college, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Illinois, where he practised his profes- sion. Since 1863 he has been professor in the Chi- cago law-school, now a department of the North- western university, which conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. He was the first mayor of Evans- ton, where he resides ; was secretary of the Kansas committee which conducted the conflict on the part of the north ; originated the Chicago drainage canal scheme ; and is the author of the Torrens act of Illinois for registration of land titles. Dr. Hurd is the official reviser of the " General Statutes of Illinois," and edited the slate edition in 1874, of which twelve later editions have been issued.

HURRY, William, architect, b. in Philadelphia, 2 April, 1805; d. at Tom's River, N. J., 3 Aug., 1893. His father, Samuel Hurry, was a prominent Philadelphia merchant, who resided opposite Independence hall, and, owing to business reveises, removed during the war of 1812-'15 to New York, and was appointed a commissioner to settle shipping claims against Great Britain. His son was educated in his native city and in New York, adopted architecture as his profession, becoming one of the most successful architects of the latter city. lie early retired with a large fortune, thereafter dividing his leisure between New York, his country seat at Tom's River, and making frequent visits to the home of his English ancestors. — His brother, Edmund, architect, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 17 Sept., 1807 ; d. on Diller's island, Ocean eo., N. J., 4 June, 1875. He was educated in New York city and in (jreenwich, Conn., and settled in the former place, where he turned his attention to architecture. In course of time he built a large number of the dwellings of the wealthy merchants of that day, and was chosen consulting architect of the Crystal palace, where the World's fair of 1853 was held. Mr. Hurry was one of the first abolitionists in New York city, and one of the early