Huxley
THOMAS HENRY, an English biologist and essayist; born in Ealing, England, May 4, 1825. He was graduated at London University in 1845. and Powers of Numbers" (1781); In 1846-1850 he sailed around the world as a naval surgeon. In 1851 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society; Professor of Natural History in the School of Mines in 1854; Hunterian Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons in 1863; president of the British Geological and Ethnological Societies in 1869: ; secretary secre of the Royal Society in 1872; Lord Rector of Aberdeen Univer- THOMAS H. HUXLEY sity in Society in 1883. He was an able ad- 1872; and president of the Royal vocate of Darwinian evolution, and was perhaps best known to the popular apprehension by his agnostic speculations, in expounding which he came into controversy with the defenders of Theism Christianity. He wrote: "Anatomy of Vertebrate Animals"; "Anatomy of Invertebrate Animals"; "Man's Place in Nature"; "Lay Sermons"; "Evolution and Ethics"; etc. He died in Eastbourne, England, June 29, 1895.
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Huxley (LEONARD British a author He)
LEONARD, British a author. He was born in 1860, and was educated at University College School, St. Andrew's University, and Balliol College, Oxford. He was assistant to Professor Lewis Campbell, professor of Greek at St. Andrew's, w's, in 1883. Later he became assistant master, Charterhouse, Godalming, and reader to Smith, Elder & Co. His works include: "Life of Huxley"; "Life of Sir Joseph Hooker"; "Letters of a Betrothed"; "Thoughts on Education."
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Huy
a town of Belgium; on both banks of the Meuse, 19 miles S. W. of Liége. Its citadel (1822), whose works are partly excavated in the solid rock, commands the passage of the river. The Church of Notre Dame, a graceful Gothic edifice, was begun in 1311. In the vicinity are iron works and coal mines, and the manufactures include paper, leather, beer, spirits, etc. Peter the Hermit founded here the former abbey of Neufmoustier (Novum Monasterium), and here in 1115, he died. Huy has been frequently besieged. In the World War, when Belgium was invaded by the Germans, Huy was attacked and only yielded to superior numbers after heavy fighting. Pop. about 15,000.
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Huygens
CHRISTIAN (hoi'gens), an eminent Dutch mathematician and astronomer; born in The Hague, April 14, 1629. He settled in Paris in 1663, at the invitation of Colbert, who bestowed on him a handsome pension, but returned to the Netherlands in 1681. In pure geometry, Huygens gave the reasons for the quadrature of the hyperbola, the ellipsis, and the circle; in mechanics, he laid down the theory of the pendulum, and its application to the clock; he discerned the synchronism of the cycloid, invented the theory of involutes and evolutes of curves, and explored the doctrine of centers of oscillation; most important of all, he announced the law of the motion of bodies revolving in circles, thereby "grazing" the law of gr gravitation. In astronomy, we owe him an improvement of the telescope and the memorable discovery of Saturn's ring. In optics he laid the foundation of the theory of undulations. He died in The Hague, June 8, 1695.
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Huysmans
JORRIS KARL (üesmong'), a French novelist; born in Paris, France, Feb. 5, 1848. He studied law and entered the French civil service, but abandoned it for literature. At first a pronounced realist, he turned to idealism and even mysticism. He first attracted notice by the story "Pack on Back"; then followed "Martha," "The Vatard Sisters," "The Ménage," and others. The latest expression of his theories was in "Down There" (Là-Bas), and "On the Way" (1895). He died in 1907.
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Hven
or HWEN, a small island of Sweden, on the S. W. coast in the Sound, 15 miles N. E. of Copenhagen. It was the residence of Tycho Brahe, and the place where he built an observatory, which has since fallen into decay.
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Hya-Hya
(hī"ä-hi"ä), a milky plant of South America.
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Hyacinthe
PÈRE (yä-sant'), a French clergyman, the former monastic. name of CHARLES LOYSON; born in Orleans, March 10, 1827. He studied at St. Sulpice, and in 1851 becoming priest, taught philosophy and theology at Avignon and Nantes. Subsequently entering the order of the Carmelites, he became known as a powerful preacher, and gathered crowded and enthusiastic audiences of all ranks of society to the Madeleine and Notre Dame in Paris. Almost as remarkable as his eloquence was the boldness with which he denounced existing abuses in the Church; and Archbishop Darboy defended him against the accusations of the Jesuits till in 1869 the general of his order imposed silence on him. Hyacinthe replied by a letter in which he called for a thorough reform of the Church, and was excommunicated Relieved from monastic vows by the Pope, he became a secular priest under the name of the Abbé Loyson. He protested vigorously against the infallibility dogma. In 1872 he married an American lady. In 1873 he was chosen curé of a congregation of Liberal Catholics at Geneva. He published sermons and lectures, and in 1879 established a "Gallican" congregation in Paris, which in 1884 attached itself to the Old Catholic Church in Holland. In 1900 he ministered to Old Catholics in Switzerland. His publications include: "Catholic Reform" (1892); "My Testament" (1893); "Christianity and Islamism" (1895). He died in 1912.
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Hyacinthus
A son of Amyclas and Diomede, greatly beloved by Apollo and Zephyrus . He was accidently killed by Apollo, who changed his blood into a flower which bore his name. 2026 Editor's Note: Hyacinthus is a genus of bulbous herbs native primarily to the Eastern Mediterranean, not just Greece. In the myth, the flower sprang from Hyacinthus's blood after he was accidentally killed by Apollo, not Zephyrus, who was jealous of their love. This myth was later adapted into the 1767 opera Apollo et Hyacinthus , the first true opera by an 11-year-old Mozart. (Ed: BR 2026-07-01)
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Hyamson
ALBERT MONTEFI- ORE, a British author. He was born in London in 1875 and was educated at Swansea Grammar School and Beaufort College, St. Leonard's. He entered postoffice in 1895, was editor of "Jewish Lit- Annual" 1903-1906, became joint erary Ann editor of "Zionist Review," and was ish affairs. His works prominent in Jewish Include: "History of Jews in England"; "Jewish Surnames"; "Humor of the Postoffice"; "Elizabethan Adventures on the Spanish Main"; "Dictionary of Universal Biography"; "Rebirth of an Ancient People." mongrel produced,
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