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* HX7NTEB. 333 HUNTEB. He invented the process of tying an artery on the cardiac side for cure of aneurism. His mu- seum coutained at the time of his death 10,503 specimens anil preparations illustrative of hu- man and comparative anatomy, physiology, pathology, and natural history. He died in comparative poverty, and his collection was pur- chased, two years after his death, by the tiovern- nient for £15,000, and was presented to the Royal College of Surgeons. In addition to numerous papers contributed to the Transactions of the Royal and other learned societies, he published the following independent works: A Treatise on the atural History of the Human Teeth (Part 1. 1771; Part II. 1778) ; A Treatise on the Vene- real Disease (1786); Observations on Certain I'arts of the Animal Economy (1786); and .1 Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun- shot Wounds (1794). Consult Palmer, The ^yorks of John Hunter, F.R.S., loith Sotes (4 vols., London, 1838). To this is prefixed The Life of John Hunter, F.Ii.S., by Otley. HUNTEB, John Dunn (0.1798-1827). An American adventurer from a Southern settlement who claimed that he had been captured and reared by Western Indians. His account of ex- plor.ations with them, and of their manners and customs, was ultimately discredited, but it is certain that when he came to New Orleans in 1817 he knew no English, and that he studied it there and in Kentucky. He was lionized while visiting England, but on his return to America did nothing but make trouble among the Mexi- cans and Indians, and was finally killed by one of the latter. The work by which he is known was published in London and Philadelphia, and translated into German and Swedish. The Eng- lish edition is called Memoirs of a Captivity Amonf/ the Indians of Xorth America from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen (1823). HUNTEB, Joseph (1783-1861). An English literary antiquary, born at Sheffield. He studied for the Presbyterian ministry; in 1809 was ap- pointed to a congregation in Bath, and in 1833 removed to London, where he became sub- commissioner of the public records, and assistant keeper (1838). His researches began in early life and extended over his entire career. He edited various volumes of records, made dis- coveries in regard to the first settlements in America, and illustrated the text of Shake- speare^s plays by investigations in many direc- tions. His voluminous notes are now in the British Mu.seura. Among his publications are: Hallamshire (1819); Disquisitions on Shake- speare's Tempest (1839); yew Illustrations of the Life, Studies, and Writinns of Shakespeare (1S45): Milton (1850); Robin Hood (1852); F.arly History of the Founders of y'eir Plymouth (1849); and the Church and Confireqation of Protestant Separatists at Scrooby (1854). HUNTEB, Mrs. Leo. A poet and lion-hunter, whose literary reception and recitation of her own "Ode to an Expiring Frog" form one of the amusing incidents in Dickens's Pickwick Papers. HUNTEB, Peter (1746-1805). A Canadian governor, born in Scotland. He chose the army as his profession, and in 1799 was made lieuten- ant-general. Tn the same year he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, and re- mained in office for six years. He was a fairly successful administrator, though he had little sympathy with the wishes of the Legislative Aa- sembly, and his acts were mainly dictated by an irresponsible executive council. HUNTEB, Robert (?-1734). A British Co- lonial Governor of New York and -Jamaica. He belonged to an Ayrshire family. He served on the Continent, fought at Blenheim, and rose to be a colonel of dragoons before he was made Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia in 1707. The vessel in which he had sailed to the Colony was taken by the French, and he was held a prisoner, but soon was exchanged for the Bishop of Que- bec. In 1710 he came to America again, this time with a ship-load of persecuted Cierman Protestants whd had sought an asylum in Eng- land, and Colonel Hunter, being now Governor of New York, was able to establish them com- fortably along the Hudson, though the settlement was an unending care to himself. Difficulties between royal governors and colonial assemblies were rife even in his day. and he doubtless re- joiced to return to England in 1719; but he was sent out again ten years afterwards to be Governor of .Jamaica and major-general of the local troops, positions which he filled most creditably until his death. HUNTEB, Robebt ilERCER Tali.febro (1809-87). An American politician, bom in Es- sex County, Virginia. He graduated at the L'niversity of Virginia in 1829, and after study- ing law at the Winchester (Va.) Law School began practicing in his natiVe coimty. His political career began in 1833 Avith his election to the State Legislature, and in 1837 he took his seat in the National House of Representatives, to which he had been elected as a Democrat. From the beginning he attracted attention by his earnest opposition to Clay's protective policy and the United States bank scheme. Reelected to the ne.xt Congress, the Twenty-sixth, he was, although only thirty years old. chosen Speaker of the House. He was reelected to the Twenty-sev- enth Congress, and was defeated for the Twenty- eighth (1843-45); but was reelected to the Twenty-ninth, and served until his elevation to the United States Senate in 1847. He served as Senator until the outbreak of the Civil War. withdrew after the secession of Virginia, and was expelled in July. 1861. He was a radical States-Rights Democrat, and a champion of Texas annexation, the Fugitive-Slave Law, and all other legislation favorable to the slave power. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance for many years, he was a prominent figure in financial legislation, was the author of the low tariff of 1857, and the originator of the bonded warehouse system. In 1860 he was a prominent candidate for the Democratic nomination for President before the Charleston Convention, re- ceiving, next to Douglas, the highest niimber of votes. He was a member of the first Provisional Confederate Congress, was Secretary of State in the Confederate Cabinet for a few months In 1862. and was then chosen from Virginia a Senator in the Confederate Senate, where he ser-ed throughout the war. leading the opposi- tion to the Davis Administration in that body. In 1865 he was one of the Confederate comnii-- sioners with .loxander Stephens and .J. .. Campbell to confer with President TJncoln .'Ind Secretary Seward at Hampton Roads. (See H.MPioN Roads Conference.) After the war he was Treasurer of the .State of Virginia from