Hill Tribes

in ethnology, rem. nants of the early trices found among the inhabitants of hills. The term hill tribes is now used chiefly of the Indian aborigines in the Him a lay as. the Vindhya, the Western Ghauts, the Neilgherry Hills, ete. _.. Hilprecht, Herman Volrath, ar American educator; born in Hoh. henerxleben, Germany, July 28, 1859; was graduated at the Ducal Gymna. sium, Bernburg, Germany, in 1880: also studied at the University of Leip. sic in 1880-1885; was Profe or of A yrian and Comparative Semitic Philology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1886-1910. He is a leading authority in cuneiform palsography, having made extensive explorations in Asia Minor, Syria, and Babslonia, and is the author of many contributions to Babylonian and Oriental chronology, arch#ology, history, philology, and palzeography.