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member of the American Association of Natural- ists and Geologists, and its president in 1843. Tlie honorary degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Yale college in 1839. He is the author of of the United States and "West Indies," publisiied in the America ti Journal of Science (1831). He di.'d in New York city. Feb. 12, 1857.
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REDPATH, James, journalist, editor and author, was born in Hervvick-on-Tweed, Xortlmm- berlandsliire, England, Aug. '^U, 1833. His father was a scliool-master, and immigrated with his family to the United States, settling in Michigan. James obtained em- ployment on the Kal- amazoo Telegraph in 1850; was subse- quently employed as a compositor on the Advertiser, Detroit, Jlich., where he did his first journalistic work, and soon after wrote a series of sketches giving liis experience and ob- servations of under- ground life in Phila- delphia, which pro- duced a great sensa- tion. He wrote articles on life in city prisons, for the New York Rambler; was employed on the New York Tribune, and during the Kansas troubles in \S~h) was the correspondent for that paper. He made a careful study of the Free Soil movement from the standpoint of the settlers, and aroused the enmity of the opponents of that party, then known as '• Border Ruffians," by whom his life was threatened. In 1857 he made a tour of the south on foot, studying the lives of the slaves bj' associa- ting with them, and his observations, known as the "Berwick" letters, were published in the Tribune. He favored the colonization of slaves in Hayti. and to that end made visits to thatcountry in 1859, and was appointed by the President of Ha^vti emigration agent in the United States and Haytian consul in Philadelphia. He founded the Haytian bureau of emigration in Boston and New York, and published in the interests of the movement a weekly newspaper called Pine and Palm, having established liiinself in the book and stationery business in Boston. He was war correspondent for the New York Tribune and the Boston Journal in the armies of the Cumberland and Ohio, 1861-65, and in 1865 was superintendent of the Freedman"s bureau for the department in- cluding South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. He organized the Redpath lyceum bureau in Boston, Mass., in 1865, and for several years con-

trolled the imblic lecture system for the whole country. His letters from the distressed di&tricts of Ireland in 1879-81, created a considerable sen- sation. He made a lecturing tour of the United States and published Redimtli's Weeklij, 1881-80; was editor of the North American Revieu\ 1885; editor of Belford's Magazine, 1886, and was an advocate of the reforms advanced by Henry George and Dr. ^IcGlynn. He assisted Jefferson Davis, in iirei)aring the revised edition of "Rise and Fall of the Confederate States of America" (1881); and Mrs. Davis in compiling the memoirs of her husb.tnd under the title "Jefferson Davis Ex-President of the Confederate States of America" (1891). He is the author of: Hand Book to Kansas (1859); The Roving Editor, or Talks toith Slaves in the Southern States (1859); Echoes of Harper's Ferry {\SQO); Southeiii Notes {ISGO); Guide to Hayti (1860); The John Brown Invasion (1860); The Public Life of Captain John Brown (1860); Jo/tn Brown the Hero {\8m); Talks about Ireland (1881). His death, the result of an accident, occurred in New York city, Feb. 10, 1891. REDWAY, Jaques Wardlaw, geographer, was born near Murfreesboro, Tenn., May 5, 1849; son of John W. and Lady Alexandrina (Wardlaw) Redwa}'. His father and two brothers died in the service of the Confederate States, and his mother and sister did not long survive them. He was placed in the family of a friend in the northern states to be educated, but lie ran away and was employed on the Morning Post, Chicago, and began to study medicine. He went across the plains with a party of emigrants, who em- ployed him as a scout and mail rider, and he en- gaged in mining and engineering in Oregon, California, Arizona and Mexico, 1870-81. He took a special course in chemistry at the Univer- sity of California, and studied also in Europe, where he married Lilian Burnham Lascelle, then residing in Dresden. He was instructor in chem- istry at the University of California. He also traveled in South America, Europe, Asia and Northern Africa, making extensive geographical researches. In 1898 he became a lecturer on geog- raphy and political economy on the Institute .staff of the University of the State of New York. A research concerning the first landing place of Columbus won liim a fellow.sliip in the Royal Geographical society. He edited: "Sir John Mandeville's Travels" (1899), and Kinglake's " Eothen " (1899). He is the author of: Manual of Geography (1887); joint author of Natural Geographies (1898); ZMi\\or oi Elementary Physi- cal Geography {\900); New Basis of Geography (1901); Inquiry Concerning the First Landfall of Columbus (1892); The Treeless Plains of North America (1894); .4 Commercial Geography {1^01) \ Stories in New York History (1903).