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Natural Sciences of Pliiladelphia, and a fellow of the Linuivan Society of London. His first biographer, Elias Diirand. said that lie personally- had made more discoveries in tiie botany of North America and described more new genera and species, with the exception of Prof. Asa Gray, tlian any other man. He contributed to tiie Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and is the author of: The Genera of North American Phints and a Catalogue of the Species to 1S17 {-i vols.. 1818): .4 Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory during the Year 1S19 (\Sl\)\ Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada: I. Land Birds (1832), 11. Water Birds (1834), and Tiie North American Sylva, or a Dcscriiition of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia, not described in the Works of Fraugois Andre Michaux (3 vols., 1842-49). He died in St. Helens, Lancashire. Eii.£;land. Sept. 10, 1859.

NUTTALL, Zelia, archaeologist, was born in San Francisco, Cal.. Sept. G. 1858; daughter of Dr. Robert Kennedy and Magdalina (Parrott) Nuttall, and granddaughter of John Parrott of Baltimore and San Francisco. Her father was a native of Tittour, Ireland, a scientist, and a naturalized citizen of the United States. She was educated in England, Germany and France, and was married in 1880 to Alphonse Louis Pinart of Paris, from whom she was separated in 1882 and divorced in 1885, when she resumed her maiden name. Slie traveled extensively and devoted lierself to the study of Mexican antiquities, her fust essay being published in 188G. In the same year she was appointed honorary special assistant at the Peabody Museumof American Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Mass., and was subse- quently elected fellow of the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, member of tiie American Philosophical society and an honorary member of several other American and foreign scientific societies. She is the author of a number of papers on Mexican archaeology, her publications including: The Fundamental Princi- ples of Old and Neiv World Civilisations (vol. II. Pealjody Museum Papers), and the Codex Nuttall, the second important ancient Mexican manu- script brought to light and edited by her, and which was named for her by the Peabody Museum, in refo;,'nition of her scientific labors.

NUTTING, Newton W., representative, was born in West Monroe. Oswego county, N.Y., Oct. 22, 1840. He practised law in Oswego, 18G1-89; was a schfx)l commissioner, 18G4-G7; district attorney, 1869-72; county judge, 1878-83, and was a Republican representative from the twenty- seventh New York district in the 48th and 50th congresses, serving, 1883-85 and 1887-89. He died in Oswego, N.Y., Oct. 15, 1889.

NYE, Edgar Wilson, humorist, was born at Shirley, Maine, Aug. 25, 1850. He removed to St. Croix county, Wis., with his parents in 1852; attended the public schools and an academy at River Falls, Wis.; removed to Wyoming Ter- ritory; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 187G, He was married, ilarch 7, 1877, to Clara Frances Smith. He abandoned the law to enter journalism and wrote liumorous articles for The Cheyenne Sicn, under the pen name " Bill Nye." He was a reporter on the Tribune, Den- ver, Col., and established The Daily Boomerang at Laramie city, Wyo., in 1881, which he edited, 1881-85. He was a member of the territorial legislature, postmaster of Laramie city, a justice of the peace, superintendent of public schools and a commissioner. He removed to Hudson, Wis., in 1885, and thence to New York, where, with James Whitcomb Riley, he engaged in filling lyceuni engagements, and in reading selections from his works, afterward making lecture tours throughout the United States and Canada and visiting Europe. He made his home near Ashe- ville, N.C., 1893-96. He is the author of: Bill Nye and the Boomerang (1881); The Forty Liars (1883); Baled Hay (1884); Bill Nye's Blossotn Rock (1885); Thinks and Remarks by Bill Nye (1886); Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New (1889); Fun, Wit and Poetry, in conjunction witii James Whitcomb Riley (1891); Bill Nye's History of the United States (1894), and Bill Nye's History of England (posthumous, 189G). He also contrib- uted a series of articles called his " Autobiog- raphies" to The Century (1892), and produced a comedy, TJie Cadi (1891), and with Paul M. Potter The Stag Party (1895). He died near AsheviUe, N.C., Feb. 22, 1896.

NYE, James Warren, senator, was born in De Ruyter, N.Y., June 10, 1815; son of James Nj'e, a pioneer settler of Madison county. He was educated in Cortland academy. Homer, N.Y., studied law in Troy, N. Y.. and practised in IMadi- son county. He was district attorney, 1839, judge of Madison county, 1840-48, and was the defeated antislavery candidate for representa- tive in the 31st congress in 1848. He practised law in Syracuse, N. Y., 1848-57, and was the first president of the Metropolitan board of police. New York city, 1857-60. During the presidential canvass of 1860 he made a tour of the west with William H. Seward, speaking for Lincoln and Hamlin. He was governor of Washoe (Nevada Territory), 1861-G4, and assisted in preparing the territory for admission as a state in 1864. He was elected l)y the first legislature of Nevada. U.S. senator with William M. Stewart, and drew the short term, serving. 1865-67, and was re-elected for a full term, serving, 1867-73. He died at White Plains, N.Y., Dec. 25, 1876.