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LEFT HIBAM COLLEGE 23 HISTOLOGY He was the father of Abibaal of secular history. Also a king of Tyre, a grand- son of the former (II Chr. ii: 14), and like him a friend of David. He con- gratulated Solomon at the commence- ment of his reign, and furnished essen- tial aid in building the Temple. HIBAM COLLEGE, a coeducational institution in Hiram, O.; founded in 1850 under the auspices of the Christian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 22; students, 357; president, M. L. Bates, A.M. HIROSAKI, a town of Japan in the northern part of the island of Hondo. The chief industry is the manufacture of lacquered ware. Pop. about 40,000. HIROSHIMA, a city of Japan, the capital of the Province of Aki. It is in the southwestern part of the island of Hondo. It is an important commercial city, and is the center of the trade in lacquered ware, bronze, and other objects of art. Pop. about 145,000. HIRSCH, MAURICE, BARON DE, an Austrian Jewish philanthropist and financier. He inherited a considerable fortune from his father in 1869 and greatly increased this by marriage. He also made enormous sums from building railways in Rumania and Turkey. His fortune was estimated at $200,000,000. During his life he gave away about $100,000,000, chiefly for the alleviation of conditions among the Jews. A large part of these sums was given to the Jewish Colonization Association for the establishment of colonies in Argentina. He also endowed schools in Galicia and he gave $2,500,000 to establish a fund in New York for the education and Americanization of Russian and Ruma- nian Jews. His wife on her death in 1899 bequeathed $1,200,000 to this fund. Baron de Hirsch died in 1896. HIRSCHBERG, a city of Silesia, Ger- many. Prior to the World War it had important manufactures of linen, lace, cotton goods, cement, etc. Pop. about 21,000. HIRST, FRANCIS W., a British au- thor. He was born in 1873, and was educated at Clifton College and Oxford. He became a barrister in 1899 and from 1907 to 1916 was editor of "The Econ- omist." His works include: "Essays in Liberalism"; "Local Government in England" (with J. Redlich, 2 vols. 1903) ; "The Manchester School"; "Adam Smith" (English Men of Letters, 1904) ; "Trusts and Cartels" (1905); "The Arbiter in Council" (1906); "The Stock Exchange" (1911); "The Six Panics" (1913); "The Political Economy of War" (1915). HISSAR, a province of Bokhara, from which it is separated by a S. offset of the W. prolongation of the Thian-Shan Mountains. This range forms its N. boundary. The soil is fertile, and yields wheat, flax, cotton, rice, and garden fruits. Copper and rock-salt abound. The inhabitants are chiefly Usbegs and Tajiks. They export corn, salt, flax, and sheep to Bokhara. The main route from India to Bokhara passes through the province. The province was annexed by the Emir of Bokhara in 1869. The capi- tal is the town of Hissar, on the Kafirni- han river. Its people are noted sword makers. Pop. about 10,000. HISSAR, the capital of a district of that name in the Punjab, on the West- ern Jumna canal, 102 miles W. of Delhi. Pop. about 20,000. The district of His- sar, lying on the W. verge of the Bika- nir desert, has an area of 3,540 square miles, and its fertile soil produces rice, millet, barley, grain, wheat, etc. ; but the crops are entirely dependent upon the rainfall. Pop. about 500,000. Area of Hissar division, 8,355 square miles; pop. about 1,400,000. HISTOLOGY, that branch of anatomy which examines and treats of the minute structure of the tissues of which living organisms are composed. It is divided into several sections. Human histology treats of the tissues of man; compara- tive histology treats of the tissues of the lower animals; and vegetable histology treats of the tissues of plants. By oth- ers histology is divided into three sec- tions: general histology, which considers the tissues of which the human and ani- mal body generally is composed; histol- ogy proper, in which the various tissues in their anatomical relations and com- position are considered; and topograph- ical histology, dealing with the more minute structure of the organs and sys- tems of the body. Each of these sub- divisions may be divided again into nor- mal histology, which refers to the healthy tissues, and pathological histol- ogy, which investigates the changes they undergo in disease. Marie Francois Xa- vier Bichat (1771-1802) is generally credited with the foundation of the sci- ence of histology. The marvelous pow- ers developed by the compound micro- scope enable investigators now to pene- trate into the most recondite tissues. It has been found that all structures how- ever complex are made up of cells, and that the parts of a body may be re- solved into a small number of elemen-