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 INGBERT INGERSOLL 279 their being especially abundant in water in- fused with vegetable matter. From their ex- hibiting the simplest forms of animal life, they were grouped together under the division pro- tozoa; but such a division, supposed to differ from all other animals in producing no eggs, does not exist in nature. Many are ascertained to be locomotive algas or seaweeds ; others are acephalous mollusks, embryonic worms, or Crustacea ; they form favorite test objects for microscopes, and have been carefully studied by Bailey, Ehrenberg, and others. The majority may be classed among worms near the turbel- larias or flat worms ; they propagate by eggs, buds, or transverse fission, and some present the phenomena of alternate generation. (See ANIMALCULES.) IKGBERT, or Sanet-Ingbert, a town of Ger- many, in Rhenish Bavaria, near the Prussian border, on the Roorbach, 10 m. W. of Zwei- brucken; pop. in 1871, 8,433. It is renowned for its coal and iron works. LXGELOW, Jean, an English poetess, born in Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1830. Her father was a banker, and a man of superior intellectual culture ; her mother is of Scotch descent. As a child Jean, was exceedingly shy and reserved, and she led a quiet, uneventful life till Novem- ber, 1863, when the publication of her "Po- ems " secured her immediate recognition as a poetess of high rank. Several of the poems in this volume, especially " Divided," " High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire," and the " Songs of Seven," have become widely popu- lar, and the last named (consisting of seven poems representing seven epochs in the life of woman) has been published separately and illustrated. Her subsequent publications are: "Studies for Stories" (1864); "Poor Matt" (1866); "Stories Told to a Child" (1866; 3d series, 1872); "A Story of Doom, and other Poems" (1867); "A Sister's Bye-Hours" (1868); "Mopsa the Fairy" (1869); "The Monitions of the Unseen, and Poems of Love and Childhood" (1870, published only in Bos- ton, Mass.) ; and " Off the Skelligs," a novel (1872). In America her poems have reached a sale (in 1874) of 98,000 copies, and her prose works of 35,000. Miss Ingelow now resides in London. Three times a week she gives what she calls a "copyright dinner" to 12 needy persons just discharged from hospitals. HfREKAHI, Bernhard Severin, a Danish poet, born at Torkildstrup, on the island of Falster, May 28, 1789, died in Copenhagen, Feb. -24, 1862. He was the son of a clergyman, and was still at the university when he published a volume of poetry in 1811. After his return from his travels in Europe he became connect- ed in 1822 with the academy of Sort), of which he was a director from 1843 till its suspension in 1849. His most celebrated works are his epics Waldemar de Store and Ilolger Danske, his national anthem Danebrog, and his sacred songs. Many of his picturesque novels in re- lation to medieeval Denmark have been trans- lated into English and other foreign languages. His complete works include dramatic poems (6 vols., 1843), historical poems and novels (12 vols., 1847-'ol), tales and stories (12 vols., 1847-'56), and ballads, songs, and fables (9 vols., 1845-'64). His autobiography, edited by Galskjoet, appeared in 1862. IiVGEMIOlSZ, Johannes, a Dutch physician, born in Breda in 1730, died at Bowood, Eng- land, Sept. T, 1799. In 1767 he went to Lon- don to learn the new mode of inoculation, and in the following year was sent to Vienna to inoculate the children of the imperial family, for which he was rewarded with the titles of aulic councillor and imperial physician, and a pension for life of 600. In 1776 ho returned to England. Most of his essays were published in the "Philosophical Transactions." DFGEBMAMLAJiD, or Ingria. See INOEIAXS. INGERSOLL, a town of Oxford co., Ontario, Canada, on the Thames river and the Great Western railway, 85 m. W. S. W. of Toronto ; pop. in 1871, 4,022. It has a large export trade in lumber and agricultural produce, and contains several grist and saw mills, manufac- tories of iron castings, machinery, woollens, wooden ware, cheese, &c., two branch banks, several hotels, two weekly newspapers, and churches of seven denominations. INGEBSOLL. I. .lured, an American lawyer, born in Connecticut in 1749, died in Philadel- phia, Oct. 21, 1822. His father was appointed stampmaster general for New England in 1765, but was soon forced to resign, and in 1770 was appointed admiralty judge for Pennsylvania, and removed to Philadelphia. Jared graduated at Yale college in 1766, studied law for five years in London, spent a year and a half in Paris, and then returning to Philadelphia be- came almost immediately prominent in his pro- fession. In 1787 he was one of the repre- sentatives of Pennsylvania in the convention which framed the constitution of the United States. He twice held the office of attorney general for the state, and was afterward United States district attorney for Pennsylvania. In 1812 he was the federal candidate for vice President of the United States. At the time of is death he was president judge of the district court of Philadelphia county. II. Charles Jared, an American statesman, son of the preceding, born in Philadelphia, Oct. 3, 1782, died there, Jan. 14, 1862. He studied law, became an attache of Rufus King, minister to France, and travelled in Europe. On his return he pub- lished "Chiomara," a poem (1800), "Edwy and Elgiva," a tragedy (1801), and "Inchiquin the Jesuit's Letters," a political satire (1810). In 1813 he was elected to congress from Phila- delphia, from 1815 to 1829 was United States district attorney, in 1837 was a member of the Pennsylvania constitutional convention, and served again in congress from 1841 to 1847, distinguishing himself as a democratic leader. He then received from President Polk the nomination of minister to France, but the sen-