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HUDSON

eral medicine and pliysical diagnosis in the New York Pt)lyolinif, 1882-87. He is the author of: Diagnostic Hclations of the Ituligcstions (1876); Doctors, Hi/giene, and Therapeutics (1877); Mettunls of Examining Weak Chests (1885); Lim- itations of the Diagnosis of Malaria (1885); Home Treatment of Consumptives (1886); Physical Diagnosis of Thoracic Diseases (1887). He died at Riverside. Conn.. May 0. 1887.

HUDSON, Henry, or Hendrik, navigator, was born probably in London, England, about 1575. Ho lived in London, and as a Henry Hudson, aldonnnn of London, was a founder with Sebas- tian Cabot of the Muscovy company, formed in 1555, to promote the discovery of a north- west passage to Chi- na, and as Chris- topher, Jolm, Thomas and Stephen Hudson also appear as inter- ested in various ex- ploring expeditions /' - sent out between 1555 >'^'iiW and 1602, it is natural ' / to infer that Henry belonged to the same family, as he appears as a captain in the employ of the Mus- covy company in 1607. On Jan. 6, 1609, he made a contract with the Dutch East India company to liead an expedition to carry forward the search abandoneil by the Muscovy company for the more profitable one of whale-fishing. On April 4, 16uy. he sailed in tiie Half Moon, a vessel of eighty tons, manned by a crew of sixteen, divided between English and Dutch sailors. He doubled the capes of Norway, May 5, and directed his course toward Nova Zembla. Tlie^ ice prevent- ing liis continuing in this direction, he sailed due west, hoping to find a passage north of tiie settlement of Virginia, as suggested by his friend, Capt. John Smitii. On July 2, lie was off the banks of Newfoundland; on the 12th, in Penob- scot bay; on August 4. at Cape Cod, and on the 26th, off King James river, in Virginia. He de- cided not to visit Captain Smith, but to push north. He entered Delaware bay, August 28, and finding no indications of a probable passage to India, he followed the Jersey coast, and Sep- tember li anchored within Sandy Hook. He sailed up the river that receivfd his name, one hundred and fifty miles, when he found his prog- ress stopjied by shallow water. On his return, disapiKiinted with his want of success, he put in at Dartmouth. England. November 7. when he wrote to the Dutcii East India company, propos-

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ing to continue his search, but his employers ordered him to return to Holland. As they were about to obey this order, Hudson and the other Englishmen of the party were detained and their service was claimed by England. After waiting eight months they were allowed to depart, and reached Amsterdam in the summer of 1610. He made his next voyage under the English flag in the ship Discoveris, and discovered a large bay, and while there was cast adrift by his mutinous crew, with his son John and five sailors sick and blind with scurvy, and the party perished in the bay that bears his name. John Meriilith Read published Historical Inquiry Concerning Henry Hudson (1860); Henry C. Murphy, Henry Hudson in Holland (1859); Dr. Aslier (London), Henry Hudson, the Navigator {18Q0), and the Rev. Dr. B. F. de Costa, Sailing Directions of Henry Hud- son (\H9). Henry Hudson perished in Hudson Bay. North America, in 1611.

HUDSON, Henry Norman, Shaksperian scholar, was born in Cornwall, Vt., Jan. 28, 1814. He was a baker, and subsequently a wheelright, and was graduated from Middlebury college, Vt., in 1840. He taught school in Kentucky, 1840-41, and in Huntsville, Ala., 1841-43. He became a Shaksperian student first while in Huntsville, Ala., and delivered a course of lectures in Phila- delphia, Baltimore, Washington and Boston, 1844- 45. He then studied theology, was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1849, and was ordained prie.st in 1850. In Decem- ber, 1852, he was married to Emily S. Bright, of Northampton, Mass. He was rector of St. Michael's church, Litchfield, Conn., 18.58-60, and chaplain in the U.S. army 1862-65. He lectured on Shakspere at Wesleyan university, 1868-69, and engaged in literary work and teaching in Boston, Mass., and vicinity, 1865-82. He was editor of the Churchman, 1852-55; founded the Church Monthly, which he edited, 1856-58, and was editor oi the Saturday Evening Gazette, 1867- 70. He was engaged in preparing the Harvard edition of Shakspere and twenty-three of Shak- spcre's phiys, 1873-82. Trinity college conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in 1847, and Middlebury college, that of LL.D. in 1881. His brother, Alonzo James Madison Hudson, born April 2, 1817, graduated at Franklin and Marshall college, 1844; was a clergj-man in German Re- formed church, 1844-60, and priest in the P.E. church 1800-98; was married, ]\Iarch 28, 1848, to Mary Theresa, daughter of Dr. James B. Fiidey, of South Bend, Ind., and died in Denver, Colo., Oct. 4, 1898. Henry Norman Hudson is the author of: Lectures on Shnl-siware (2 vols., 1848); The Works of Shakespeare, with Notes, Introduction and Life (e<1ited. 11 vols.. 18.^,1-.50): A Chnnlain's Campaign u-ith. General Butler (1865); Plays of