House, and director of the Royal Asiatic Society

His works include a "Sanskrit-English Dictionary" (1819), "Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus" (1827), "Religious Sects of the Hindus" (1828-32), descriptive catalogue of the "Mackenzie Collection" (1828), “History of British India" (1844–48), a Sanskrit grammar (1841), and e ays on Sanskrit literature, the religion of the Hindus, etc. He translated the "Meghaduta" (1813), the "Vishnu Purana" (1840), a part of the "Rig-Veda" (1850), etc. Wilson, James. Born near St. Andrews, Scotland, Sept. 14, 1742: died at Edenton, N. C., Aug. 28, 1798. An American patriot and jurist. Winchester died Oct. 17, 1900. An American statesman. He was educated at Columbian College, District of Columbia, and at the University of Virginia; served in the Confederate army in the Civil War; taught for a time in Columbian College, and then practised law in Charles town, West Virginia; was president of West Virginia University 1882-83; and was Democratic member of Congre from West Virginia 1883-95. As chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means he introduced in 1893 the tariff bill which bears his name. Postmaster-general 1895-97. Wilson, Woodrow. Born at Staunton, Va., Dec. 28, 1856. An American historian. He graduated at Princeton in 1879; studied law and practised at Atlanta, Georgia, for a year or two; studied history and politics at Johns Hopkins University 1883-85; taught history at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, 1885-86, and was a ociate profe or of history and political science there 1886-88; was elected profe or of history and political economy at Wesley an University in1888; was profe or of finance and political economy at Princeton University 1890-1902, and in the latter year was elected its president. He has published "Congre ional Government: a Study in American Politics" (1885), “The State"(1889), “Division and Reunion, 1829-89" (one of the "Epochs of American History" series, 1893), "An Old Master, and other Political E ays" (1893), etc. Wilson Promontory. The southernmost headland of Australia, in Victoria, projecting into Ba Strait. Wilson's Creek (wil's onz krēk). A small river near Springfield, Mi ouri. Here, Aug. 10, 1861, the Confederates under McCulloch and Price defeated the Federals under Lyon who was killed in the battle. He was a delegate to Congre from Pennsylvania, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776; a mem- ber of the Constitutional Convention in 1787; and an as so- ciate justice of the United States Supreme Court 1789-98. Wilson, Sir James Erasmus. Born at Aber- deen, Scotland, April 28, 1809: died at West- gate-on-the-Sea, Aug. 8, 1884. A British phys i land, 3 miles west-northwest of Salisbury: cian, a specialist in dermatology: first profe or of that specialty in the College of Surgeons (the chair was founded by him). He transported at his own cost the Egyptian obelisk to London. His works include "Diseases of the Skin," etc. Wilson, James Grant. Born at Edinburgh, 1832. An American historical writer, son of William Wilson (1801-60). He was major, colonel, and general in the Civil War; was one of the editors of "Apple tons' Cyclopædia of American Biography"; and since 1885 has been president of the New Genea logical and Biographical Society. His works include a life of General Grant (1868-85), t (1868-85), "Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck" (1869), "Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers" (1870 and 1874), "Poets and Poetry of Scotland" (1876), "Bryant and his Friends" (1886), etc. He has edited "Memorial History of the City of New York" (1892). Wilson, John: pseudonym Christopher North. Born at Paisley, Scotland, May 18, 1785: died at Edinburgh, April 3, 1854. A Scottish e ayist, 26, 1680. An English poet and courtier in reign of Charles II. Wilmot Proviso. A proviso attached in 1846 to an appropriation bill in the United States Congre , and named from its promoter, David Wilmot, representative from Pennsylvania. The bill was for the purchase of Mexican territory, and the proviso was for the prohibition of slavery in this territory. The bill with the proviso pa ed the House of Representatives, but failed to reach a vote in the Senate. Wilna. See Vilna . Wilson (wil's on), Alexander. Born at July 6ied at Philadelphia, 23113 Scotch-American mill i prisoned for writing lampoons (in a dispute between the weavers and manufacturers at Paisley); emigrated to the United States in 1794; labored as a peddler, schoolmaster, and editor of an edition of "Rees's Cyclopædia"; and made many pedestrian and other expeditions through the country. He published “American Ornithology" (7 vols. 1808 life was prosecuted 1813 vols and edited after his death supplement by L. Bonaparte, 1825), poems (1791), "The Foresters" etc. His