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Birds' -Xesting (1883) ; Wild Floicers and Where They th-oio (1882) ; Door- Yard Folks (1883) ; Pleas- ant Authors for Young Folks (1884); Old School Bays (1886) ; American Authors for Young Folks (1887); and The Luck of Edenhall (1888), and also the editor of an Autograph Birthday Book for Young People (1881); and The Little Folks Every - Day -Book (1881).

HARRIS, David Bullock, soldier, was born at Fredericks Hall, Va., Sept. 28, 1814. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1833; was 2d lieutenant in the 1st U.S. artillery, 1833- 34, and assistant professor of engineering at West Point, 1834-35. He resigned from the army in 1835, and was civil engineer in Virginia, and an extensive exporter of flour and tobacco at Rich- mond. In 1861 he was appointed captain of engi- neers in the state force, and planned the defensive works on the field at Manassas in 1861, and in the battle of July 20-21, was on the staff of Gen. Philip St. George Cocke, commanding the 5th brigade of the Confederate army. He constructed the defensive works at Island No. 10, Fort Pillow, and Vicksburg in 1862 ; was in charge of the de- fensive engineering operations at Charleston, S. C. , 1863, and constructed the defences of Petersburg, Va., 1864. He was promoted colonel of engineers in 1863, and brigadier-general in 1864. He died of yellow fever while on engineering duty on the forts protecting Charleston, S.C, Oct. 10. 1864.

HARRIS, Elisha, phj-sician, was born in West- minster, Vt., March 4, 1824. He paid for his higher education by teacliing school, and was graduated at the College of jihysicians and sur- geons. New York city, 1849. He was a practising phj'sician in New York city, 1849-55; superin- tendent and physician-in-chief, N.Y. quarantine hospital, 1855-66; organizer and director of the work of the U.S. sanitary commission, 1861-65; registrar of vital statistics and coi'resiJonding sec- retary of the Metropolitan board of health, 1866- 69; sanitary superintendent of New York city, 1869-70; again registrar of vital statistics, 1873- 76, and secretary of the New York state board of health, 1880-84. He constructed the first floating hospital at quarantine; reformed the building laws of the city causing 40,000 windows and 2000 roof -ventilators to be put in tenement liouses in the year 1869; invented a railroad ambulance that gained a prize at the Paris exposition and was adopted by the Prussian army, and wrote exten- sively on sanitary topics for the public press. He was elected a member of the American academy of medicine in 1879 and was a member of the va- rious sanitary and medical associations of the United States; a delegate to the International medical congress of the American health associa- tion in 1876, and president of the association in 1878. He died in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 31, 1884.

HARRIS, George, educator, was born in East Machias, Maine, April 1, 1844; son of George and Mary Ann (Palmer) Harris, and grandson of Josiah and Lucy (Talbot) Harris, and of Robinson and Harriet (Allen) Palmer. He was graduated from Amherst college in 1866, and from the An- dover theological seminary in 1869. He was or- dained Oct. 6, 1869, and was pastor of the High Street Congregational church at Auburn, Maine, 1869-72, and of the Central Congregational church in Providence, R.I., 1872-83. He was uni- versity preacher at Dartmouth college, 1894-99, and at Harvard, 1897-99. He was elected ])rofes- sor of Christian theology at the Andover theo- logical seminary in 1883, which chair he held until 1899, wlien he was elected president of Amlierst college. He received the degree of D.D. from Amherst in 1883, and from Harvard in 1899, and that of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1899. He was one of the editors of the Andover lieview, 1884-93, and is the author of Moral Evolution (1896); Inequality and Progress (1897), and of contributions to periodical literature.

HARRIS, George William, librarian, was born at Pictou, Nova Scotia, Dec. 18, 1849. He received his preparatory education at the Pictou academy, and was graduated from Cornell uni- versity in 1873, with the degree of Ph.B. He w^as appointed assistant libra- rian of Cornell university in j ' 1873, acting ; librarian in \\ ^fi 1883, lecturer ^m on bibliography 4jJM1 in 1885, and li- © '^ brarian in 1890. He became editor of the Library Bulletin of Cor- nell University in 1883, and in 1888 prepared the Ten- Year Book. He is the author of contributions to the Library Journal, the Xation, and other peri- odicals and was elected a member of the Ameri- can library association, and of the Bibliographical society of London.

HARRIS, Gilbert Dennison, educator, was born in Jamestown, NY., Oct. 2, 1864: son of Francis Eugene and Lydia Helen (Crandall) Harris ; and grandson of Jonathan Grant and Mar- cia (Miller) Harris, and of Stephen and Christiana (Benjamin) Crandall. He was graduated from Cornell university in 1886, and was employed on the U.S. geological survey, and on the state geo- logical surveys of Arkansas and Texas, 1887-93. He was editor and proprietor of the Bulletins of American Paleontology, and publisher of the Ee- vrint of Conrad's Fossil Shells of the Tertiary For-

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