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LEFT HUNT 84 HUNTER in George Washington University and also lecturer at Johns Hopkins Univer- sity. He was a member of many his- torical societies. His published writings include a history of "The Seal of the United States" (1909) ; "The Department of State: Its History and Functions" (1914) ; "Life in America One Hundred Years Ago" (1914). He also wrote the lives of Calhoun and Madison, and other American statesmen. He edited "The Writings of James Madison" and "The Journals of the Continental Congress." He also edited James Madison's "Jour- nal of Debates in the Constitutional Con- vention" (1917). HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH, an English poet and essayist ; born in South- gate, Middlesex, England, Oct. 19, 1784. He was the personal friend of Byron, Shelley, Hazlitt, Lamb, and Coleridge. In 1811 he was tried and acquitted for some remarks on the subject of flogging in the army, published in the "Exam- iner," a journal which he had founded. He was afterwards sentenced, with his brother, to a fine of $2,500 and two years' imprisonment for an alleged libel against the prince regent. Offers to remit these penalties on a promise to refrain from similar expressions for the future were firmly rejected. "The Story of Rimini" is his longest and perhaps his best known poem; and among his miscellaneous works may be mentioned his autobiog- raphy, and his essays, entitled "Men, Women, and Books"; "Imagination and Fancy"; "Wit and Humor"; etc. He died in Putney, England, Aug. 28, 1859. HUNT, RICHARD MORRIS, an American architect; born in Brattleboro, Vt., Oct. 31, 1828; finished the study of his profession in Paris ; and was ^ em- ployed on the extension of the National Capitol. Among the structures designed by him are the Presbyterian Hospital, Lenox Library, the William K. Vander- bilt mansion, the "Tribune" Building, etc., in New York City; the Yorktown Monument, Va.; the pedestal of the "Statue of Liberty," on Bedloe's Island, New York harbor ; etc. He died in New- port, R. I., July 31, 1895. HUNT, THOMAS STERRY, an American chemist and geologist; born in Norwich, Conn., Sept. 5, 1826. He was for a period assistant to the elder Silli- man at Yale College; 1847 to 1872 was chemist and mineralogist to the Canadian Geological Survey; Professor of Chem- istry at Laval University (1856-1862) and at McGill University (1862-1868); 1872-1878 Professor of Geology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In organic chemistry his name is identi- fied with a system essentially his own, and his researches into the composition of rocks were of great importance. In 1859 he invented the green ink with which greenbacks are printed. He was made an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1867, and received a fellowship of the Royal Society (1859), and the degree of LL.D. from Cambridge (1881). He published several works on chemistry and mineralogy. He died in New York City, Feb. 12, 1892. HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN, an English painter; born in London, Eng- land, in 1827. He was trained in the Royal Academy school, and began to ex- hibit in 1846. He belongs to the so- called Pre-Raphaelite (q. v.) school of English artists. In 1853 his "Claudio and Isabella" first attracted public at- tention, followed next year by the "Light of the World." He then made a journey to the East, the fruits of which are ol> servable in his succeeding pictures : "The Scapegoat" (1856) ; "The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple" (1860) ; "Shad- ow of the Cross" (1873); "Plains of Esdraelon" (1877) ; "Triumph of the In- nocents" (1885). Outside of Biblical subjects Mr. Hunt painted : "Isabella and the Pot of Basil"; "After-Glow"; "Fes- tival of St. Swithin"; etc. He died Sept. 7, 1910. HUNTER COLLEGE, an institution for the education of women, in New York City, founded as the New York Normal School, in 1870. It received its present designation in honor of Presi- dent Hunter, who was its head for nearly 50 years. There were in 1919 112 instructors and 1,277 students. The president was G. S. Davis, LL. D. The college is supported chiefly by appropria- tions from the city. HUNTER, DAVID, an American mili- tary officer; born in Washington, D. C, July 21, 1802; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1822; assigned to frontier duty; promoted cap- tain in 1833; resigned from the army in 1836 and settled in Chicago; re- entered the army in 1842 as paymaster with the rank of major. On May 17, 1861, he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers and a few months later major-general. He was given command of the Department of the South in March, 1862, and recruited and organ- ized in South Carolina the first negro * regiment in the Union army. He was transferred to the Department of West Virginia in May, 1864; defeated the Con- federates at Piedmont, June 5, 1864; was