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ANTHONY.ANTHONY. 1871, serving throughout the 41st and 42d congresses; was again elected in 1883, but on account of ill health was obliged to decline. He was orator on the occasion of the presentation by the state of Rhode Island to the national government of the statues of Roger Williams and Nathaniel Greene, which were placed in Statuary Hall in the capitol at Washington. He left to Brown university the "Harris collection of American poetry," numbering about six thousand volumes. This collection was begun by Albert G. Greene, continued by Caleb Fiske Harris, and completed by Senator Anthony. His addresses, historical and memorial, were collected and privately printed in 1875. They embrace his tribute to Stephen A. Douglas, delivered in the U. S. senate July 9, 1861; to John R. Thompson, Dec. 4, 1862; to William Pitt Fessenden, Dec. 14, 1869; to William A. Buckingham, in December, 1875; to Henry Wilson, Jan. 21, 1876; and three addresses on Charles Sumner, — on the announcement of his death in the senate, on his delivery of the senator's body to the governor of Massachusetts, and on the presentation by Senator Boutwell of resolutions of respect to Mr. Sumner's memory. His address on presenting to Congress a bill to provide for repairing and protecting the monument at Newport, R. I., erected to De Tiernay, the commander of the naval forces sent out by France in 1780 to aid the revolutionary cause, was one of his most notable speeches. The president of the United States, a large number of senators and the officials of his native state and city attended the funeral. A memorial volume was published by the general assembly of the state of Rhode Island in 1885. The date of his death was Sept. 2, 1884. ANTHONY, John Gould, naturalist, was born at Providence, R. I., May 17, 1804. From his boyhood he applied himself to the study of natural history, and was engaged in commercial business in Cincinnati for more than thirty-five years. In 1863, his publications on natural history having attracted the attention of Professor Agassiz, he became the curator of the conchological department of the museum of comparative zoology. Here he became a recognized authority on American mollusca. In 1865 he was Agassiz's companion upon the Thayer expedition to Brazil. The following is a sequential list of his publications: "A New Trilobite" (Ceratocephala Ceralepta) (1838); "Fossil Encrinite" (1838): "Description of a New Fossil (Calymene Bucklandii)" (1839); "Descriptions of Three New Species of Shells" (1839); "Descriptions of Two New Species of Anculotus" (1839); "Description of New Fluviate Shells of the Genus Melania, Lam., from the Western States of North America" (1854); "Descriptions of New Species of American Fluviate Gasterpods" (1861); "Description of Two New Species of Monocondytoca" (1865); "Descriptions of New American Fresh-Water Shells" (1866). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 16, 1877. Anthony, Susan Brownell, reformer, was born in South Adams, Mass., Feb. 15, 1820; daughter of Daniel and Lucy (Read) Anthony. Her father, who was a Quaker, removed his family from Massachusetts to Washington county, N.Y., in 1826, where he engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods. His daughters were given a liberal education at a Friends' boarding school in West Philadelphia. In 1835 Susan began to teach school in New York state. Her first speech was made at a meeting of the New York teachers' association in 1853. The speech consisted of but a few sentences, but was an act of unparalleled audacity at that day. Miss Anthony's example wrought a change in the standing of the woman teachers in future conventions. From this time they began to participate in the discussions, and to vote and have a voice in matters pertaining to the profession in which they are so largely in the majority. In 1849 Miss Anthony began to speak in public in behalf of the temperance cause, of which she was an earnest advocate. In 1851, being refused admission to a temperance convention on account of her sex, she called a convention of women to discuss temperance in Albany, N.Y., and in 1852 was mainly instrumental in organizing the Woman's New York State temperance society. She soon realized that the ballot would give to women more power to combat intemperance and other evils than any arguments that she could wield; she therefore became a woman suffragist, and for more than forty years worked steadily for that cause. Miss Anthony's remarkable executive ability, her logical reasoning, and her simple, direct, and pertinent aptitude of expression soon gave her national prominence as an advocate of woman's rights. She was an ardent abolitionist, and in conjunction with her friend and co-worker, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, rendered great assistance to the abolition party during the anti-slavery agitation. They obtained hundreds of thousands of signatures to petitions beseeching congress to abolish slavery as a war measure. "Send petitions; they furnish the only background for my