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Huntingdon (SELINA COUNT- ESS)

SELINA, COUNT- ESS OF, an English reformer, daughter of Washington Shirley, 2d Earl Ferrers; born Aug. Aug. 24, 24, 1707. 170 She married the Earl of Huntingdon in 1728, and became a widow in 1746. Adopting the principles of the Calvinistic Methodists, she made the famous George Whitefield one of her chaplains, and assumed a leadership among his followers, who came to be known as "The Countess of Huntingdon's Connection." For the education of ministers she established and maintained a college at Trevecca; and built, or became possessed of, numerous chapels, the prinatomist and obstetrician, elder brother of cipal one being at Bath. She died June John Hunter; born in Long Calderwood, Lanarkshire, Scotland, May 23, 1718.

Originally educated for the Church at Glasgow University, he studied medicine for one session (1740-1741) at Edinburgh, and went through a long training in anatomy at St. George's Hospital, London. In 1747 he was admitted a member of the Corporation of Surgeons, ultimately confining his practice to midwifery. In 1764 he was appointed physician-extraordinary to Queen Charlotte. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, he in 1768 became Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Academy. His museum was bequeathed to his brother-in-law, Dr.

Baillie, and after him, with an endowment of $400,000, to Glasgow University. He wrote: "An Anatomical Description Contents." He died in London, England, of the Human Gravid Uterus and Its March 30, 1783.

HUNTER, FORT, a defensive work at the confluence of the Mohawk river and Schoharie creek, N. Y., where many severe conflicts took place during the Revolutionary and the French-Indian Wars.