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 COOK 295 society, to whose "Transactions" he was a frequent contributor. He discovered and first described in 1821 the plesiosaurus, a discovery which was applauded by Cuvier and Buckland as one of the most important additions to the sciences of geology and comparative anatomy, and which opened the path of discovery since illustrated by the labors of Owen. He also furnished several papers on the coal districts of England, which are especially valuable as proving the relations between some of the principal British rocks and the order of their superposition. He published a course of theo- logical lectures in 1836, delivered the Bampton lectures in 1839, and in 1845 was made dean of Llandaif. He was also a fellow of the royal society, elected in 1818, and a corresponding member of the institute of France. IV. Wil- liam John, an English clergyman and author, son of the preceding, died in 1857. He published essays in the "Edinburgh Review" on eccle- siastical and social topics, one of which, on the parties within the Anglican church, at- tracted general attention. These were after- ward collected ; and a volume of his sermons at the chapel royal, Whitehall, has been pub- lished. With the Rev. J. S. Howson he wrote the " Life and Epistles of St. Paul " (2 vols., London, 1850-'52). He also wrote a novel, "Perversion, or the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity," which was published shortly before his death, and in which the religious as- pect of the times was exhibited and discussed. V. Henry, an English civil engineer, brother of the preceding, born at Brislington, Somerset- shire, Feb. 22, 1823. On the completion of his professional education he went to India, and from 1849 to 1852 had charge of the civil en- gneering department of the city and island of ombay. In 1854 his report on the best means of supplying water to the city and island was approved by the supreme government of India, and he was appointed to construct the works, which were on an unusually large scale. He returned to England in 1855, and in 1856 de- signed docks for the port of Bombay. The same year he was appointed lecturer on civil engineering in the royal engineers' establish- ment for field instruction at Chatham. He has since been engaged in the construction of public works of importance in England. COOK. I. A 1ST. county of Texas, separated from the Indian territory by Red river, and drained by Elrn fork of Trinity river and its affluents ; area, 900 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 5,315, of whom 471 were colored. The E. third of the county is wooded ; the rest is prairie, ex- cept along the rivers. The bottom lands of Red river are very rich. The route of the pro- posed Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific railroad lies through it. The chief productions in 1870 were 16,233 bushels of wheat, 211,939 of In- dian corn, 51,743 of oats, 22,664 of sweet po- tatoes, 76,809 Ibs. of butter, and 308 bales of cotton. There were 3,479 horses, 3,015 milch cows, 27,503 other cattle, 3,086 sheep, and 16,226 swine. Capital, Gainesville. II. A N. E. county of Illinois, touching Indiana and Lake Michigan; area, 1,027 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 349,966. The surface is level or undu- lating, much of it being occupied by prairies. The soil is remarkably rich and deep. The flat land was formerly thought unfit for culti- vation, but is now generally esteemed the best since careful tillage has developed its richness. It is traversed by the Illinois and Michigan canal, and by various railroads centring in Chicago. It was organized in 1831, and named after Daniel P. Cook, a member of congress from Illinois, by whose exertions a grant of 300,000 acres of land was obtained from the United States to aid in the construction of the Illinois and Michigan canal. The chief pro- ductions in 1870 were 149,200 bushels of wheat, 570,427 of Indian corn, 1,584,225 of oats, 59,973 of barley, 444,554 of potatoes, 129,210 tons of hay, 1,088,963 Ibs. of butter, 57,372 of wool, 36,505 of flax, and 2,644,960 gallons of milk sold. There were 12,770 hor- ses, 23,063 milch cows, 14,486 other cattle, 10,622 sheep, and 15,521 swine. There are a large number of manufacturing establishments, chiefly in Chicago, the county seat. COOK, Charles, D. D., an English clergyman, one of the founders of French Methodism, and president of the French Wesley an conference, born in London, May 31, 1787, died Feb. 21, 1858. After a few years devoted to the work of education, he entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1817, and in 1818 was appointed by the British conference to the French mission in Caen, Normandy. Through his labors socie- ties were organized, circuits were formed, and a native ministry recruited from year to year. He was a powerful co-worker with D'Aubigne, De Felice, Malan, Gaussen, the Monods, and others in the revival among the French Protes- tants. At the time of his death there were in France two Methodist districts, 12 circuits, 141 chapels, 26 itinerants, 65 local preachers, and 1,386 members ; besides day and Sunday schools, a monthly periodical, and Bible, tract, and mis- sionary societies. COOK, Eliza, an English authoress, born in Southwark, London, in 1817. Her father was a tradesman in narrow circumstances ; and her mother dying when she was 15 years of age, her home was neither pleasant nor happy. She had early evinced a taste for literature, and now sought in intellectual pursuits relief from the hardships of her situation. In 1837 she became a contributor to the London " Weekly Despatch," and wrote for other periodicals. In 1840 a collection of her poems, under the title of "Melaia and other Poems," was published in London. In 1849 she became the editor of "Eliza Cook's Journal," a weekly publication, designed, in her own words, "to aid the gigan- tic struggle for intellectual elevation now going on." For several years it contained many vig- orous prose articles and poems from her pen, but was discontinued in 1854 on account of her