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ance as soloist in the Metropolitan opera house, New York city, with the Symphony society un- der Danirosch. Subsequently he joined Theodore Thomas's orchestra as soloist. "When Thomas went to Chicago, Herbert was engaged by Anton Seidl as solo "cellist and associate conductor, which position he held until 1894. He was ap- pointed bandmaster of the 30d Regiment, N.G. S.N.Y., thereby succeeding the late P. S. Gil- more, and in 1898 became conductor of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) orchestra. Among his pub- lished works are the comic operas P/"/»et' Ananias (1894); Hie Wizard of the Nile (1895); The Sere- nade (1897); The IdoVs Eye (1898); TJie Fortune Teller (1898): Cyrano de Bergerac (1899); The Ameer (1899); The Singing Girl (1899), and The Viceroy (1900). Other compositions of importance are his "cello concerto (E minor opus 30), first performance by the composer at one of the con- certs of the Philliarmonic Societj' of New York ; Tlie Captive, an oratorio written for and per- formed at the Worcester, Mass. , festival ; com- positions for orchestra, violoncello and orchestra, etc., and various songs. His Suite Bomantique for orchestra, in four movements, was first per- formed in New York by the Pittsburgli orchestra under the composer's direction, Feb. 26, 1900, and was afterward produced in Pittsburgh, Pa., attracting much favorable comment in both cities.

HEREFORD, Frank, senator, was born in Fauquier county, Va.. July 4, 182.5. He acquired a classical education, was admitted to the bar and practised for a short time in Virginia. He later removed to California and was district at- torney of Sacramento county, 18.5.5-.jT. In 1858 he removed to Union, Va. He was a Democratic representative in the 42d, 43d and 44th con- gresses, 1871-77. On the death of Senator Allen T. Caperton in 1876, Mr. Hereford was elected by the legislature of West Virginia to fill the unex- pired term in the U.S. senate, and served until 18^1. He died in Union, W.Va., Dec. 23, 1891.

HERINQ, Constantin, physician, was burn in Oschatz, Saxony, Jan. 1, 1800; son of Christian Gottlieb Karl and Christiane Friedericke (Kreuz- berg) Hering. His father, a graduate of the universities of Leipzig and Wurzburg, was a noted musician and educator. Constantin at- tended the clas-sical school at Zittau, 1811-17, and studied surgery at Dresden, 1817, and mathema- tics and the classics under private tutors, 1818- 20. He entered the medical school of the Uni- versity of Leipzig in 1820 and was graduated M.D., 1S2G, and his thesis, " De Medicina Fu- tura,"' defended the new system of Hahnemann, to whose law of cure he had become a convert. He was instructor in natural science and mathe matics at Blochmann institute, Dresden, in

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1826-27 ; collector of botanical and zoological specimens, under order for the king of Saxony, in Suriname, South America. 1827-33. and while at Paramaribo practised and taught liomoeopathy and, in a Moravian colonj', educated Dr. Bute, who visited Pliiladelphia in 1832, to practise the new system on cholera pa- tients. In 1833 he followed Dr. Bute to Pliiladelphia and in 1835 helped to found, at Allentown, Pa., the North Ameri- can xVcademy of the Homoeopathic Heal- ing Art, the first homoeopathic school in the world, and was made its president and chief instructor. The school was closed in 1837 and in 1846 he aided in founding in Philadelphia the Homoe- opatliic Medical College of Pennsylvania, where he was made professor of institutes and ma- teria medica. In 1867 he assisted in founding the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, in which institution he was professor of insti- tutes and materia medica, 1867-69, and professor emeritus, 1869-80. He was married in 1845 to Theresa, daughter of Christian Friedrich and Charlotte Amalie (Bruchmann) Buchheim. Be- sides editing homoeopatliic journals he published: The Rise and Progress of Homoeopathy (1834); Coiulensed Materia Medica (1877-79); Effects of Snake Poison (1837); Guiding Symjjtoms (1878- 80) ; Analytical Therapeutics (1875); Bering's Do- mestic Physician (1850-.58); and American Drug Provings (1853). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 23, 1880.

HERINQ, Daniel Webster, civil engineer, was born in Smithburg, Washington count}', Md., March 23, 1^50 ; son of Joshua and Susanna (Harman) Hering. He was graduated from the Sheffield scientific scliool, Yale, Pli.B., 1872. He was division engineer on the Reading and Lehigh railroad, 187.3-74 ; fellow in engineering at John^ Hopkins university, 1876-78 ; assistant engineer of the Baltimore and Cumberland Valley railroad, 1878-80 ; professor of mathematics at Western Maryland college, 1880-84; professor of physics at Western University of Pennsylvania. 1884-85, and was elected professor of physics and applied meclianics at the University of the City of New York in 1885. He was married. Nov. 23, 1881, to Mary HoUis Webster, and Iiad two children. Doris Webster Hering and Hollis Webster Hering. He received the degree of C.E. from Yale college in