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Harvey (WILLIAM an English physician)

WILLIAM, an English physician; born in Folkestone, Kent, April 1, 1578. He took his degree in 1, 1578. He took his degree arts at Caius College, Cambridge, in 1597 and after five years' study at Paof medicine in 1602. After receiving dua, he obtained his diploma as doctor his doctor's degree from his original university, Cambridge, he settled in London as a physician. In 1609 he was appointed physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and in 1615 Lumleian Lecturer at the College of Physicians an office then held for life; and it is generally supposed that in his first course of supp lectures (in the spring of 1616) he expounded those original and complete views of the circulation of the blood with which his name is indelibly associated.

It was not till the year 1628 that he gave his views to the world at large, in his celebrated treatise entitled, "Anatomical Study of the Movement of the Heart and the Blood." He was appointed successively physician to James I. and Charles I. Harvey's first step was to prove that the arteries contained not air but blood. He attended the king in his various expeditions, and was present with him at the battle of Edgehill (Oct. 23, 1642). On the surrender of Oxford to the Parliament July, 1646, he left the university and returned to London. In 1654 he was elected president of the College of Physicians, but he declined the office on account of his age and infirmities. In July, 1656, he resigned his Lumleian lectureship (held for more than 40 years); and in taking leave of the college presented to it his little patrimonial estate at Burmarsh, in Kent. He died at Hampstead, June 3, 1657. a HARZ MOUNTAINS (harts), mountain range of Germany, extending between the rivers Weser and Elbe, S. of Brunswick, with a length of 57 miles, a breadth of 20, and a superficial area of 900 square miles. It forms an elevated plateau, rising on most sides somewhat steeply from the plains. The range, which is divided into Upper and Lower Harz, the average elevations of which are 2,100 and 1,000 feet, respectively, is composed for the most part of rocks belonging to the Devonian and Lower Car- HASDRUBAL feet) of central Germany. The Harz in the Brocken, the highest peak (3,740 through in a few places by g granite, as in the Brocken, the highest peak (3,740 feet) of central Germany. The Harz are exceedingly rich in metals and minerals, as silver, iron, lead, copper, division between the Low German and These mountains form a natural line of division between the Low German and the High German races. Industries connected with the mines and the forests, as well as some cattle-breeding and agriculture, afford employment to the inhabitants. The rearing of singing birds is also a source of profit. The region is rich in historic and legendary interest.

HASDRUBAL (haz'drö-bal), the name of several Carthaginian generals, of whom the most famous was the son-ingave that general most effective aid in accompanied Hamilcar into Spain, and gave that general most effective aid in the work of building up a Carthaginian dominion in the Peninsula. means.

On the death of Hamilcar in 228 B. C. the task of administering and extending the new empire devolved on Hasdrubal, who advanced the Carthaginian frontier from the Bætis (the Guadalquivir) to the Tagus, and founded a new capital, Nova city with the best harbor on the S. E. Carthago (the modern Cartagena), a city with the best harbor on the S. E. coast of Spain, and situated in the vicinity of rich silver mines. Hasdrubal coast of Spain, and situated in the proved himself an admirable administrator. He was remarkably successful in proved himself an admirable administraconciliating the Iberian tribes, and extended his rule mainly by peaceful conciliating the Iberian tribes, and exhome government that the Romans made means. So independent was he of the a treaty in which the Ebro was fixed on as the frontier line, not with Carthage, but with Hasdrubal. In the eighth year as the frontier line, not with Carthage, of his command, 221 в. c., he was assassinated by a Celtic slave. Another HAS- DRUBAL was the son of Hamilcar Barca nated by a Celtic slave. Another HAS- of his command, 221 B. c., he was assassiand the brother of Hannibal. He defeated Cneius Scipio in Spain in 212 в. c., and in 208 marched through Gaul, to join his brother Hannibal in Italy. He crossed the Alps in favorable weather, but, instead of pushing S. made a fatal and slain on the Metaurus in 207 в. c.

A third HASDRUBAL was one of Hannibal's principal officers in the Italian campaigns. He made a brilliant charge at the battle of Cannæ, which contributed paigns. He made a brilliant charge at bal's principal officers in the Italian camfourth general of the same name defended Carthage against the Romans during the siege ege which ended in the city's fended Carthage against the Romans during the siege which ended in the city's starved the citizens while himself living cowardice and cruelty, and of having HASTINGS UPON HUDSON educated in the public schools and studied art in Boston and in Paris. He artist, born in Boston, in 1859. He was