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States he lectured in all the principal cities. He was principal of a school, organized the 9th Presbyterian church, and was stated supply in various churches in Indianapolis, Ind., 1859-85. He was president of Coates college, Terre Haute, Ind., 1885-88, and removed in 1888 to Minneapolis, Minn., where he engaged in educational work and supplied the pulpits of various churches. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Olivet college, Mich., in 1876. He was stricken with paralysis of the brain in November, 1896, and died in Minneapolis, Minn., July 27, 1897.

HAYDEN, Edward Everett, meteorologist, was born in Boston, Mass., April 14, 1858; son of William and Louise Annie (Dorr) Hayden; grandson of William and Maria (Baxter) Hay- den, and of Alfred and Anne (Lodge) Dorr, and a descendant of John Vassal and Thomas Oliver. He grail uated from the Boston Latin school in 1875, and from the U.S. naval academy in 1879, and stool third in his class at the final examinations in 1881. He served on special scientific duty at the Smithsonian institution and in the U.S. geological survey in the west, and while thus employed was injured in a land slide, which resulted in the lo.ss of a leg and his retirement from active ser- vice. He was stationed at the Harvard college observatory in 1884, in the U.S. geological survey as assistant geologist in 1885-86, and in the United States hydrograpliic office, where he was chief of the division of marine meteorology and after- ward marine meteorologist, 1887-93. He was a member of the American association for the advancement of science and of the Philosophical society, vice-president of the National geographic society, 1890-93, and secretary of the latter, 1894- 97. He was an associate editor of the Ami'i-iran Metporohigical Journal and editor of the MunthJy Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic ocean, 1887-93. At the outbreak of war with Spain he volun- teered for active duty and served in the office of naval intelligence at Washington, and in charge of the observatory at the Mare Island navy yard, California, subsequently visiting Honolulu, Guam, Manila, Iloilo, Cebii and Japan, in connection with his meteorologic and chronometric work. He became an authority on the subject of ocean storms and is the author of numerous papers relating to that and kindred subjects, among which are: The Charleston Earthquake ; A Loop in the Track nf an Ocean Storm ; The Great Storm off the Atlantic Coast of the United States, March 11- 14, 18SS ; West Indian Hurricanes and the Ilarch Blizzard, ISSS ; Tropical Cyclones ; Hurricanes in the Bay of Xorth America ; The Modern Laic of Storms; The Lau- of Storms; The Samoan Hurri- cane of March. 18S9 ; Hydrography ; Storms of the Xorth Atlantic ; and Clock Bates and Barometric rrrssHr,'.

HAYDEN, Ferdinand Vandeveer, geologist, was born in Westfield, Mass., Sept. 7, 1829. He was graduated at Oberliu college, Ohio, A.B., 1850, A.M., 1853, and at Albany medical college in 1853. He explored the "Bad Lands " of Dakota for Prof. James Hall, state geologist of New York in 1853, and the basin of the upper Mis- souri, 1854-55. His collections deposited in the St. Louis academy of science and in the Phila- delphia academy of natural sciences, led to his appointment as geologist on the staff of Lieut. Gr. K. Warren of the topographical engineers in the surveying expedition of Captain Humphreys in Dakota and Nebraska for routes for a Pacific railroad, 1856-59. He was connected with the expedition of Capt. W. F. Raynolds in exploring the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, 18o9-62, as naturalist and surgeon. He entered the US. volunteer army in 1862 as assistant surgeon to the Satterlee hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., and was pro- moted surgeon, Feb. 19, 1863, and made chief medical officer at Beaufort, S.C. He was made assistant medical inspector of the department of Washington, February, 1864, and chief medical officer of the army of the Shenandoah at W^inches- ter, Va., in September, 1864. He resigned in May, 1865, and was bre vetted lieutenant colonel for services. He was professor of mineralogy and geology in the University of Pennsylvania. 1865- 72, maintaining in the meantime his position in the U.S. geological survey, being U.S. geologist, 1867-79. The Philadelphia acadeni}- of sciences in the summer of 1866 engaged him in gather- ing vertebrate fossils in the valley of the upper Missouri, and in 1867 congress appointed him to make the geological survey of Nebraska. This employed his time, 1867-69, and in April, 1869, it was organized as the geological survej' of the territories of the United States. He explored Dakota, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, 1869-72, in the interest of geology, natural history, clima- tology, resources and ethnology. His report led to congress setting apart the Yellowstone national park as a perpetual reservation. Dr. Hayden con- tinued his geological and geographical survey of the territories, 1873-79, when the entii'e work was consolidated as the U.S. geological survey and he was made geologist -in-chief of the Montana di- vision. He resigned at the close of 1886 on ac- count of failing health. He was elected a member of the National academy of sciences in L856; and of the American philosophical society in 1860. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Rochester in 1876 and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1887. His reports to the government including " Report of the U.S. Geological Survej^ of the Territories " which he edited, embrace a large number of volumes besides his *' Miscellaneous Publications " and