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* ELLIS. 5 Boston, was educated at Harvard College and Divinity School, graduating at the latter in 1830; spent several years in study and travel in Europe, and from 1840 to I860, when he resigned, was pastor of the Harvard I nitarian Chureli, Charles- town, Mass. From 1857 to 1 Sf >:j he was profes- sor of systematic theology in the Harvard Divin- ity School. In 1864, 1871, and 1879 he was a Lowell Institute lecturer, and for a number of years was editor of the Christian Register, and 'later of the Christian Examiner. He was an overseer of Harvard College in 1850-54, and in 1887 was elected president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, lie published lives of John Mason (1844). Anne Hutchinson (1845), and William Perm (1847) : Half Century of the Uni- tarian Controversy (1857) : The Aims and Pur- poses of the Founders of Massachusetts and Their Treatment of Intruders and Dissentients (1809) ; Memoirs of -hind Sparks (1869) ; and History of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1875). He wrote chapters for the Memorial History of Boston ( 1881 ) ; for Winsor's Narrative and Critical His- tory of America (1886) ; and several articles for the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britanniea. ELLIS, Sir Henry (1777-1809). An English antiquarian. He was horn in London, and was educated at Saint John's College, Oxford. He held a sub lihrarianship in the Bodleian at Ox- ford for a few months, and was then (1800) ap- pointed to a similar position in the British Mu- seum, where he was chief librarian from 1827 to 1856, wdien he retired. In 1833 he was knighted by William IV. He edited Brand's Antiquities (1813), and published a valuable collection of Original Letters Illustrative of English History (11 vols., 1824-40), and an Introduction to Domesday Book (1833). ELLIS, Henry Havelock (1859 — ). An Eng- lish criminologist. He was born at Croydon, Surrey, and was educated for a medical career at Saint Thomas's Hospital. After teaching for several years in Australia, he returned to England in' 1880, where he became known as a writer of considerable originality. His publications in- clude: The Criminal (1890) ; Man and Woman: A Study of Human Secondary Sexual Characters (1894) ; Sexual Inversion (being vol. i. of Studies in the Psychology of Sex, 1897) ; The Evolution of Modesty, etc' (vol. ii., ib.. 1899) ; A Dialogue in Utopia (1900). ELLIS, Jon Bicknell (1829 — ). An Ameri- can botanist, born at Potsdam, X. Y., and educat- ed at Union College. His publications include: North American Fungi, with B. M. Everhardt (1892), and North American Fungi (1878-93). He was an editor of the Journal of Mycology from 1885 to 1888. ELLIS, Robinson (1834-). An English clas- sical philologist, born at Banning. He entered Balliol College, Oxford, and took B. A. in 1857 ; became fellow of Trinity College in 1858 ; re- ceived M. A. in 1859; was made professor of Latin in University College, London, 1 870 : and Corpus professor of Latin literature, Oxford, 1893. He has edited Catulli Ycronensis Liber, etc. (1878) ; Ovid, Ibis ( 1881) ; Glosses on Apol- linaris Sidonius, Anec. Oxon., Class. Series. 1. 5 (1S85) : Alliums I 1SS7I : Orientii Curini mi. vol. xvi. in the Corpus Script. Eccles. (1888) : Yel- leius Paterculus (1898) ; -Etna (1900) : he has ELLISTON. also made a translation of Catullus (1871) ; and written I Commentary on Catullus (1889). ELLIS, William (1794-1872). An English missionary. He was born in London, August 29, 1794. In' 1816 he went to the Soul h Pacific a missionary of the London Missionary Society. In Tahiti he Bet up the drsl printing-press in the South Sea Islands. From 1831 to 1841 la- was foreign secretary of the London Missionary Society. From 1847 till his death he was pastor of the Congregational church ai Eoddesdon, near London, in 1853 Mr. Ellis was sent to Mada- gascar by the London Missionary Society to investigate the condition and prospects of the Christians in that island. He afterwards made two other visits to the island, the last time re- maining four years (1801-05). He died at Hod- desdon, June 9, 1872. Mr. Ellis's works include; Narrative of a Tour Through Onliylur [Hawaii] (1820); Polynesian Researches (1829); History of Madagascar (1838), compiled from Govern- ment papers and reports of missionaries; Three Visits to Madagascar (1858); Madagascar Re- visited (1867); The Martyr Church [of Mada- gascar] (1870). These works are all standard authorities for the countries of which they treat. Consult the Life by his son, J. E. Ellis (London, 1873). — Sarah Stickney Ellis, Mr. Ellis's sec- ond wife, was a voluminous writer and zealous worker in the interests of temperance reform, education, and efforts to improve the condition of young women of the lower classes. For many years she conducted a school for girls (Rawdon House) at Hoddesdon. She wrote: The Poetry of Life; The Women of England (1838); The Young Ladies' Reader (1845); Rawdon House (1848) ; and many other volumes of like char- acter. ELLIS ISLAND. A small island in the northern part of upper New York Bay, a mile southwest of the Battery. It is owned by the 1'nited States Government, and has been used since 1892 as an immigrant station (Map: Greater New York, C 9 ). ELLISSEN, el'le-sen, Adolf (1815-72). A German philologist and literary historian. He was born at Gartow, and studied at the uni- versities of Gottingen, Berlin, and Paris. A unique work from his pen is entitled Thee- und Asphodelosbliiten (1840), a metrical translation of Chinese and modern Greek poems. A some- what similar production entitled, Yersuch einer Polyglotte der europ'dischen Poesie, vol. i. (1846), is a valuable contribution to literary history. EL'LISTON, Robert William (1774-18311. A noted English actor. He was born in London, the son of a watchmaker, and was educated at Saint Paul's School at the expense of a scholarly uncle. He ran away from home, however, in 17!H. and joined a theatrical company at Bath, making his first appearance, in a minor part, in that same year. In 1793 he was highly success- ful as Romeo. Beginning in 1790, he appeared occasionally in London, at the Haymarket and Covent Garden theatres, while engaged also at Bath and in the management of several play- houses in provincial towns. From 1S04 to 1809 he was a member of the Drury Lane Company. but after the theatre was burned opened the Surrey Theatre, returning to Drury Lane in 1812, where he took hading parts. He became lessee and manager of Drury Lane in 1819. open-