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HOY, Fhilo Romayn, physician, b. in Mans- field, Ohio. 3 Nov., 1816. His father, Capt. William Hoy, emigrated from Salem, N. Y., to Mansfield in 1815, and built the first frame building in that place. The son received a common-school educa- tion, and was graduated at the Ohio medical col- lege in 1841. He has practised in Newhaven, Ohio, till 1846, and after 1846 in Racine, Wis. Dr. Hoy has devoted much time and study to natural sci- ence. His local collection of birds, reptiles, fish, and insects is widely known. He was for three years president of the Wisconsin academy of sci- ence, arts, and letters, and has been professor of physiology and zoology in Racine college, and natu- ralist to the geological survey of Wisconsin. He is a member of many scientific associations, and of the American association for the ailvancement of sci- ence. His published papers are scattered through about fifty volumes of reiiorts and proceedings.

HUBBARD, Gardiner Greene, lawyer, b. in Boston, 25 Aug., 1823 ; d. near Washington, D. C, 11 Dec, 1897. He was graiiuatcd from Dartmouth in 1841, completed the law course at Harvard, and afterward studied with Benjamin R. Curtis, whose Cartner he became. His residence was in Cam- ridge and in Boston until 1878, when he removed to Wasliington for its milder climate. Five years later he abandoned the law to devote his energies to the Bell telephone company, which he projected and in which he was a large stockholder and di- rector. His widow has presented his valuable col- lection of etchings and engravings to the library of congress. The Hubbard collection reiiresents the finest productions of the modern schools of art. and, when taken in connection with the num- ber already in the library under the operation of the copyright law, will make the library gallery one of the largest and most representative in the world. Mrs. Hubbard also provides a fund of f20,()00. the interest of which will be forever de- voted to the increase of the collection.

HUBBARD, Nehemiah. soldier, b. in Middle- town, Conn., 21 April, 1752 ; d. there, 6 Feb , 1837. He was in the fourth generation from George (1504), who was a member of the earliest general court of the colony (16;J8). Relinquishing his idea of a col- legiate course, he twgan a commercial career in his native town at the age of fourteen, and when he was twenty-one went to the West Indies, first as supercargo and afterward as captain and merchant. While ho was in the West Indies the news of the Bunker Hill fight arrived, and, though the fact was doubted, Mr. Hubbard hastened home, and early in 1776 entered the armv. In May of that year he was appointed by Gov. Trumbull paymaster to Col. Bnrrnlrs regiment, which went on service to Ticon- deriiga. In .May, 1777, he was appointed by Gen. Greene, who was at that time quarterma-ster-gen- eral of the United States, his deputy quartcnnaster for the state of Connecticut, which post he held till the resignation of Gen. Greene, when, although reappointed by Col. Pickering, he declined. Not long afterward he re-entered active service to sup- ply the French auxiliary army, being pn^sent at the siege of Vorktown and the surrender of I>ord Comwallis. As a provider of public supplies all his movements were marked by decision, prompt- ness, and punctuality. The resources of his state were brought forward at the most critical junc- ture, and the army, while enduring the greatest privations, was freipiently relieved by this state through his energy and exertions. Letters from Washington to him. still extant, attest this fact.

HUERTO, Garcia del (oo-air-to), known also AS Gabcia ah IIorto. or da Hohta, Brazilian natu- ralist, b. in Salamanca, Spain, about 1508 ; d. near Rio Janeiro, Brazil, about 1569. He was educated at Salamanca and Alcala, and was afterward pro- fessor of matliematies in the University of Lisbon and physician to the king. He went to Brazil in 1530 with Martim Affonso de Souza, and after- ward to India, where he practised medicine with success. Returning to Brazil, he made a study of the medicinal plants of the country and held sev- eral oflBces in the colony, and died on his way to Portugal. He wrote "Coloquios dos simples e drogas <to Brazil e das Indias, seu cousas medi- cinaes e tambem dalgumas frutas achadas nellas, onde se tratam algumas cousas tocantes a medi- eina, pratica. e outras cousas boas para saber" (Goa. 1563 ; Lisbon, 1565), a very curious work, which, in a revised French version, enjoyed a great reputation during the 17th century under the title "Histoire des drogues, esniccries, et de certains medicaments simples, qui naissent es- Indes et Brcsil" (Lyon, 1619). It was also trans- lated into several other languages.

HULL, John Albert Tiffin, congressman, b. in Sabina, Clinton co., Ohio, 1 May, 1841. He received his limited education in Iowa, to which state his family had removed, and was graduated at the Cincinnati law-school in 1862. He served in the Union army as lieutenant and captain, and resigned after being wounded at Black River. He was secretary of the Iowa state senate for four years, secretary of state for six years, and lieuten- ant-governor for two years. He has been a mem- ber of congress since 1891, his present term expiring in March. 1901, and as chairman of the Com- mittee on military affairs his name is identified with the army reorganization bill. In October, 1899, Cant. Hull delivered the annual address in Chicago before the Society of the army of the Ten- nessee, of which he is a member.

HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von, German naturalist, b. in Berlin, 14 Sept., 1769 ;-d. there, 6 May, 1859. He studied at the Universities of Frankfort and Gottingen and the mining academy at Freiberg, and from 1794 till 1799 was engaged in scientific research, writing, and travel. In 1799 he went to Spain and pro- cured from the king permission to visit and make scientific investi- gations in all the Spanish posses- sions in Europe, America, and the Fast Indies. Such extensive privi- leges hail never before been grant- ed toany traveller. His exploration of Orinoco river was the first that fur- nished any posi- tive knowledge of the long-disputed bifurcation of that stream. In 1802,

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volcanoes of Ecuador, he ascended heights that had not previously been attained, and on Chimborazo reached the altitude of 19,286 feet. Afterward he made a profile of Mexico from sea to sea, the first that was ever given of any entire country. Hum- boldt then went to Havana, and after two months' residence there completed the materials for his "Essai politique sur I'ile de Cuba" (Paris, 1826). He embarked thence for Philadelphia, was received