Identifier: americanauniver08beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of Rumanianand Russian Jews. Other large gifts were thoseof $5,000,000 for the endowment of schools inGalicia, and of $50,000,000 to the Jewish coloni-zation association for the establishment ofcolonies in Argentina. In 1888 he offered tothe Russian government $10,000,000 for schools,with the condition that in the distribution ofthe amount no discrimination as to race or re-ligion be made. This offer was not accepted.Baron de Hirsch made extensive sums throughthe construction of railways in Turkey. Hirth, hert, Friedrich, German-Americaneducator: b. Grafentonna, Saxe-Coburg, Ger-many, 1845. He studied at Leipsic, Berlin, andGreifswald, entered the Chinese customs servicein 1870; retired in 1897, and in 1902 was calledto the newly created professorship of Chinese inColumbia University. In the summer of 1902he was in St. Petersburg, cataloguing a collec-tion of manuscripts taken at Peking. He madea valuable collection of Chinese porcelains, nowin the museum at Gotha, and one of printed
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HISCOCK —HISTORICAL SOCIETIES IN THE UNITED STATES books and MSS., now in the Berlin Royallibrary. Among his publications are: Chinaand tlie Roman Orient* (1885); Ancient Por-celain* (1888); Chinesische Studien (Vol. L,1890) ; and Ueber fremde Einfliisse in derChinesischen Kunst (1896). Hiscock, Frank, American legislator: b.Pompey, Onondaga County, N. Y., 6 Sept. 1834.In 1855 he was admitted to the bar, in 1860-3was district attorney of Onondaga County, andin 1867 a member of the State constitutionalconvention of New York. He was a Republi-can representative in Congress in 1879-87, andobtained recognition as a party leader andspeaker. In 1887 he was United States senatorfrom New York and then returned to pro-fessional practice. Hispania, his-pani-a. See Spain. Histology, the science of animal and vege-table tissues. It investigates by means of themicroscope the various tissues of man, animalsand plants in their anatomical relations andcompositions. Topographical histology con-sider

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