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LEFT HORN 55 HOBNE glicized Horn, "the Horn," when rounded in 1616 by the Dutch navigators, Le- maire and Schouten. It was sighted by Drake in 1578. HORN, HOORNE, or HORNES, PHILIP, COUNT VAN, a Flemish sol- dier and statesman; born in 1518; was the son of Joseph de Montmorency-Ni- velle, and of Anne of Eg-mont, and step- son of John, Count van Horn, who con- stituted him and his brother his heirs on the condition of assuming his name, Philip gradually rose to be governor of Gueldres and Ziitphen, admiral of the fleet, and councillor of state. He fought at St. Quentin in 1557, and at Gravelines in 1558, and 1559 accompanied Philip to Spain. On his return he joined the Prince of Orange and Egmont in resist- ance to Philip. On the arrival of Alva at Brussels he was arrested, in Septem- ber, 1567, on a charge of high treason, and he and Egmont were beheaded in June, 1568. HORNADAY, WILLIAM TEMPLE, an American naturalist; born near Plainfiald, Ind., Dec. 1, 1854. He was for a number of years chief taxidermist of the United States National Museum, Washington, and in 1896 became director of the New York Zoological Park. He wrote: "Two Years in the Jungle"; "The Buffalo Hunt"; "Free Rum on the Congo"; "Taxidermy and Zoological Col- lecting"; "Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava" (1908); "Our Vanishing Wild Life" (1913) ; "Wild Animal Conservation in Theory and Practice" (1914) ; etc. HORNBEAM (Carplnus Betidiis, nat- ural order Cnpuliferx), a small bushy tree common in Great Britain, and often used in hedges. The wood is white, tough, and hard, and is used in turnery, for cogs of wheels, etc. The inner bark yields a yellow dye. The American hornbeam (C. americana) is a small tree sparingly diffused over the whole of the United States. HORNBILLS, a remarkable group of birds confined to Southern Asia and Africa, akin to the kingfishers and the toucans, remarkable for the very large size of the bill, and for an extraordinary horny protuberance by which it is sur- mounted, nearly as large as the bill it- self, and of cellular structure within. The rhinoceros hornbill is almost the size of a turkey, of a black color, except on the lower part of the belly and tip of, the tail, which are white. It has a sharp-pointed, slightly curved bill, about 10 inches long, and furnished at the base of the upper mandible with an immense appendage in the form of an inverted horn. During incubation the female is plastered up in the hollow of a tree and fed by the male thropgh a small aper- ture left for the purpose. The hornbills are of arboreal habit, and feed on fruits. MALE HORNBILL FEEDING FEMALE IN NEST HORNBLENDE (-blend), one of the five most abundant simple minerals of which rocks are composed, the others be- ing felspar, quartz, mica, and carbonate of lime. It is closely akin to augite, but the forms of the crystals in the two spe- cies are different, and the cleavage par- allel to the faces of the oblique prism in hornblende are more strongly marked than the corresponding cleavage in au- gite. HORNBOOK, the primer or apparatus for learning the elements of reading, used in England before the days of print- ing. It consisted of a single leaf, con- taining on one side the alphabet, large and small, in black letter or in Roman. Then followed a form of exorcism and the Lord's Prayer, and, as a finale, the Roman numerals. HORNCASTLE, an English market- town of Lincolnshire. It has a great August horse-fair, to which Borrow de- votes 11 chapters of the "Romany Rye." HORNE, SIR HENRY SINCLAIR, a British military officer; born in 1861; he received his general education at Har- row, then prepared for a military career at Woolwich. On graduating, in 1880, he received a commission in the RoyaJ Artillery. He served with distinction in the South African War, from 1899 to 1002. At the outbreak of hostilities in