Vampire Bat
a name formerly to given Vampyrus spectrum. Also any species of the group Desmodontes, consisting of two genera, each represented by a single species. They differ from all other bats in the character of dentition, the upper incisors being very large, trenchant, and occupying the whole space between the canines; premolars very narrow, with sharp-edged longitudinal crowns; molars rudimentary or none; œsophagus very narrow; cardiac extremity of stomach greatly elongated, forming a long, narrow cæcum. The species are sanguivorous, and cling by their extremities to the body of the animal whose blood they may be sucking.
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Van
a town of Armenia, on Lake Van; the capital once of an Armenian kingdom, near the S. E. shore of Lake Van; 145 miles S. E. of Erzerum; pop. about 30,000.- VAN, LAKE, a salt-water lake, 5,467 feet above sea-level; area about 1,600 square miles; it contains many islands and has no visible outlet.
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Van Amringe
JOHN HOWARD, an American educator; was graduated at Columbia College (now University) in 1860; was tutor of mathematics there in 1860-1863; adjunct professor of the same in 1864-1873; then was made full professor. In 1894 he was elected dean of the School of Arts. When Seth Low Cyc 11 involuntarily become a vampire by him- resigned the presidency of Columbia self falling a victim to one, or merely University on being nominated mayor of New York, Dr. Van Amringe was acting president of the university till Nicholas Murray Butler. He is the the election, in January, 1902, of Dr. author of a revised edition of Davies' "Legendre." He died in 1915.
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Van Devanter
WILLIS, American jurist, born in Marion, Ind., in 1859. He graduated from DePauw University and from the Cincinnati Law School. For several years he practiced law in Marion , Ind., and then removed to Cheyenne, Wyo. He acted as city attorney for that city and as a member of the Territorial Legislature. In 1889-90 he was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming, and from 1897 to 1903 was general of the United States. He was appointed United States circuit judge in 1903, serving until 1910, when he was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States . assistant attorney VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. MANIA. See TAS
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Van Dorn
EARL, an American military officer; born near Port Gibson, Miss., Sept. 17, 1820 ; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1842; became a captain in 1855, and resigned his commission on the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861; joined the Confederate army ; took an active part in the battle of Pea Ridge, March 7 and 8, 1862; attacked General Rosecrans at Corinth, Oct. 3-4, 1862, and was defeated with great loss. He was killed in a private quarrel in Maury co., Tenn., May 8, 1863. a
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Van Dyke, Henry
Henry (1852-), an American clergyman and author. He was born at Germantown. He was graduated from Princeton in 1873 and from the University of Berlin in 1878. He is known favorably as a preacher and lecturer, and has written a number of volumes on a variety of subjects. Among them are The Poetry of Tennyson, Little Rivers, The Builders and Other Poems, Ships and Havens, and Fisherman's Luck.
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Van Hise
CHAS. R., an American geologist; born in Fulton, Wis., May 29, 1857; was graduated at the University of Wisconsin in 1879, and was instructor there in metallurgy till 1883, when he was made assistant professor, becoming full professor in 1886. Two years later he accepted accepted the chair of geology in the same institution, and in 1892 was made non-resident Professor of Structural Geology at the University of Chicago. He became director of the Lake Superior division of the United States Geological Survey. He was elected president of the University of Wisconsin in 1903, serving until 1918. He was the joint author of the memoirs "On Secondary Enlargements of Mineral Fragments in Certain Rocks" (1884); "The Penokee-Gogebic Iron-bearing Series of Michigan and Wisconsin" (1892); "Correlation Papers, Archean and Algonkian" (1892); "Principles of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology" (1896); "Concentration and Control" (1912). He died Nov. 19, 1918.
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Van Horne
SIR WILLIAM COR- NELIUS, a Canadian railroad official; born in Joliet, Ill., Feb. 3, 1843; began his career as an office boy in a railroad station; was rapidly promoted till he was made general superintendent of the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern railway.in 1872. Later he successively held the same post on the Southern Minnesota, the Chicago and Alton, and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads. In 1880 he was made general manager, and in 1888, president of the Canadian Pacific railway. He was created an honorary K. C. M. G. by Queen Victoria in May, 1894, in recognition of his eminent public services. He died in 1915. genus of epiphytal
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Van Schaack
PETER, an American jurist; born in Kinderhook, N. Y., in March, 1747; was graduated at Columbia College in 1768. In 1773 he was appointed a commissioner to revise the colonial statutes. During the Revolutionary War he sympathized with the British. In June, 1777, he was called before the Committee on Conspiracies and asked to take the oath of allegiance to the Continental Congress. Declining to do so, he was sent to Boston, where he was kept under constant surveillance, and in October, 1778, was exiled from the country. try. He returned to the United States in 1785, and soon became eminent in his profession. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Columbia College in 1778. His publications include: "Laws of the Colony of New York" (2 vols. 1773); and "Conductor Generalis, or the Duty and Authority of Justices, Sheriffs, Constables, etc. Revised and Adapted to the United States." He died in Kinderhook, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1832.
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Van Wert
a city and county-seat of Van Wert co., O.; on the Pennsylvania and the Cincinnati Northern railroads; 27 miles W. N. W. of Lima. It contains a number of churches, a court house, National and other banks, and several newspapers. It has planing mills, and manufactures of stoves, wagons, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,157; (1920) 8,100.
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