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 VERPLANCK

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Key West, Fla. He was translated to Savannah, Ga., in July, 1861, but retained the office of bishop administrator of Florida until 1866. He rebuilt the church at Jacksonville, Fla.; built the church of the Holy Trinity, Savanah, Ga.; established many scliools, convents and missions in Georgia and Florida, and was translated to the see of St. Augustine, Fla., March 11, 1870. He published a Roman Catholic Catechism that became an au- thority in the United States, and left manuscripts on philosophical and theological subjects. He died at St. Augustine, Fla., June 10, 1876.

VERPLANCK, Gulian Crommelin, author, was born in New York city, Aug. 6, 1786; son of Daniel Crommelin Verplanck. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1801; studied law with Edward Livingston, and was admitted to the bar in 1807. He was married in 1811 to Eliza Fenno, and traveled abroad for several years. Hi was a member of the state assembly, 1830-23; professor of the evidences of Christianity at the General Theological seminary. New York citj', 1831-24; a Jackson Democratic representative in

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the 19th-22d congresses, 1825-33; defeated for mayor of New York in 1834, and elected to tlae state senate in 1838, serving till 1841. He was a governor of the city hospital, 1823-65; presi- dent of the board of commissioners of emigra- tion, 1846-70; regent of the University of the State of New York, 1826-70, and vice-chancellor, 1858-70. He received the honorary degree of A.M. in 1821 and LL.D. in 1835 from Columbia, of which college he was a trustee, 1821-26, and that of LL.D. from Amherst and Hobart in 1835. He was a trustee of the Shakespeare society lib- rary; vestryman of Trinity church; a member of the N.Y. Historical society, the Sketch club and the Centui-y association. He is the author of: llie Bucldail Bards (1819), which contained pam- phlets aimed at DeWitt Clinton, and the mayor of New York; Pvoces Verbal of the Ceronony of Installation (1820); Essays on the Nature and Uses of the Various Evidences of Revealed Relig-

ion (1824); Essay on the Doctrine of Contracts (1825); Discourses and Addresses on American History, Arts and Literature (183'S); Shakespeare's Plays, with his Life, with Critical Introduction and Notes (3 vols., 1847); and with William CuUen Bryant and Robert C. Sands edited " Tal- isman," an annual, 1827-30, which was re- published "Miscellanies" (1833). He died in New York city, March 18. 1870.

VERRILL, Addison Emory, zoologi^-t, was born in Greenwood, Maine, Feb. 9, 1839; son of George W. and Lucy (Hilborn) Verrill; grand- son of Daniel and Eunice (Cordwell) Verrill, and of Seth B. and Betsy (Garland) Hilborn, and a descendant of Samuel Verrill of Gloucester, Mass. (b. 1733); son of Samuel Verrill (or Var- rell), said to have been born in England, and Sarah (Stevens) Verrill. He was graduated from the Lawrence Scientific school of Harvard, S.B. 1862; was an assistant of Louis Agassiz in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1860-1864; appointed professor of zoology in Yale college in 1864, and curator of the Zoological museum of Yale in 1865, and while holding that professorship, was al&o professor of comparative anatomy and ento- mology in the University of Wisconsin, 1867-70. He was married, June 15, 1865, to Flora Louise, daughter of Elliot and Lavinia Howard (Barton) Smith of Norway, Maine, and of his children, George Elliot Verrill (born July 29, 1866; Yale, Ph.B. 1885) became U.S. junior engineer in charge of parks and rivers and harbor improve- ments and also acquired some reputation as an or- nithologist; Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (born July 23, 1871), artist and naturalist, invented the process of producing photographs in natural colors by direct sun-printing on paper; and Clarence Sidney Verrill (born May 6, 1877), mining engineer, was champion strong man in American colleges, while a student at Yale. Professor Verrill was in- structor in geology in the Shefiield Scientific school of Yale, 1871-94; assistant in charge of the scientific explorations and deep-sea dredging by the U.S. Fish commission, 1871-88, and in 1898 and 1901 conducted most successful scientific ex- peditions to the Bermudas, acquiring large col- lections illustrating the land and marine fauna?, including especially very complete series of the corals and gorgonias of the Bermuda coral-reefs. These expeditions and the reports upon tiiem also contributed to the establishment of a perma- nent zoological station at Bermuda. Professor Verrill also made many important original in- vestigations in relation to the Invertebrata of the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North and South America, and especially of the deep-sea fauna. The zoological collections of Yale uni- versity are due almost entirely to his personal efforts, under most discouraging conditions. He