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of Strontites and Volatilization of Platinum, and also a new Arrangement of xlpparatus, " which apparatus in its simplest application produced the calcium light. His inventions and discov- eries in science were of practical use in the arts and he attained a high reputation as a chemist. He was professor of chemistry in William and Mary college, 1818; and in the Medical depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, 1818- 47. His chemical and physical apparatus he presented to the Smithsonian institution in 1847 when he resigned his chair in the universit}'. He subsequently advocated the Spiritualist faith and prepared and published " Spiritualist Mani- festations Scientifically Demonstrated " (1855). He received the honorary degrees of A.M. and M.D. from Yale in 1806; and that of M.D. from Harvard in 1816. He was a member of the American academy of arts and sciences and of the American philosophical societj', and an honorary life member of the Smithsonian institu- tion. He published upwards of 200 pajsers in Sil- liman's American Journal of Science; Brief View of the Policy and Besources of the United States (1810) ; Chemical Apparatus and Manipulations (1836) ; Compendium of the Coxirse of Chemical In- struction in the Medical Department of the Univei-sity of Pennsylvania (1840); and Memoir on the Explo- niveness of Xitre (1850). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 15, 1858.

HARE, William Hobart, first missionary bishop of South Dakota and 100th in succession in. the American episcopate, was born in Prince- ton, N.J., May 17, 1838; son of the Rev. George Emlen and Elizabeth Catherine (Hobart) Hare ; grandson of Rt. Rev. John Henry Hobart, bishop of New York ; and great grandson of the Rev. Thomas Bradbury Chandler, D.D., of colonial times. He was a student at the University of Penn- sylvania in the class of 1858, but left at the close of y/M^ his junior year, took up teaching and a course in the diocesan theological training school conducted h\ his father in Philadelphia, and was ordained deacon in the P.E. church in June 19, 1859, and priest. May 25. 1862. He was married in 1861 to Mary Amory, daughter of the Rt. Rev. Mark Anthony de Wolfe Howe. She died in 1866, leaving one child, a son. Dr. Hobart Amory Hare of Philadelphia. He was assistant

at St. Luke's church, Philadelphia, and rector of St. Paul's, Chestnut Hill, 1861-63; in charge of St. Luke's, Philadelphia, 1863-64; assistant and then rector of the chvirch of the Ascension, Philadelphia, 1864-70 ; and .secretary and general agent of the domestic and foreign missionary so- ciety, 1870-72. The house of bishops elected him missionary bishop of Cape Palmas, W.A. in 1871, but the apijoiutment was withdrawn at the request of the liouse of deputies that he might continue his work as the representative of the foreign missionary work at home. On All Saints' Day, Nov. 1, 1872, the house of bishops elected him bishop of the Indian missionary ju- risdiction of Niobrara, and he was consecrated, Jan. 9, 1873. His diocese was enlarged in 1883 and changed to embrace the southern part of Dakota, and lie became known as the missionary bishop of South Dakota. In the year 1891 he made two trips to Japan on a special mission from the house of bishops, visiting also the mis- sion in China. The see cit}' of the missionary district was fixed at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he erected a cathedral and dioce.san school. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Trinity, Columbia, and Kenyon col- leges in 1872.

HARQER, Oscar, paleontologist, was born in Oxford, Conn., Jan. 12, 1843. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1868, A.M., 1871. He was assist- ant to Prof. Othniel Charles Marsh, paleontolo- gist at Yale, 1870-87. He was a proficient botanist ; pursued zoological studies under Professor Ver- rill, and did much original work in vertebrate paleontology, and in invertebrate zoology. He was secretary of the Connecticut academy of arts and sciences, 1875-77. He published reports on the Marine Isopoda ofXeio England and Adjacent Waters (1880), and on The Isopoda of the Blake Dredgings on the Eastern Coast of the United States (1883). He died in New Haven, Conn.. Nov. 6, 1887.

HARGITT, Charles Wesley, educator, was born in Dearborn count}-, Ind., March 28, 1852 ; son of Thomas and Mary (Lyr.ess) Hargitt, and gi-and- son of the Rev. Thomas Hargitt. His ancestors on both sides immigrated to America from England early in the 19th centurj^. He spent his boyhood on a farm and attended the district school. He removed to Indianapolis, Ind., in 1871, and was graduated from Moore's Hill college, Ind., in 1877. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for a time engaged successfully in that calling, meanwhile carrying on scientific studies. He took post graduate courses in the Massachusetts institute of technology and at Bos- ton university, continuing his scientific work at the Marine biological laboratory and in the Uni- versity of Indiana. He was professor of natural sciences at Moore's Hill college, 1885-88; of biol-