Ferguson, Adam

a Scottish philosopher and historian, born in Perth shire, 1724. He was profe or of moral philosophy in the Edinburg University, and is the author of Principles of Moral and Political Science, . The former of these has been often reprinted, and translated, and adopted as a text-book in some foreign universities; its principle is the admi ion of a moral sense. Died 1816. Ferguson, in Mi ouri , a post-village of St. Louis co. -A township of Clear field co. Fergusonite, n. (Min.) A columbate of yttria, in tetragonal, hemihedral crystals. Lustre dull, externally brilliantly vitreous and sub-metallic on fracture. Color, brownish-black. Hard . 5-5-6; sp. gr . 5.838. Occurs at Cape Farewell, Green land, and Ytterby, Sweden. Fergusonville, in New York , a P. O. of Delaware co. Fergu on, JAMES, an English architect and author, в. 1808. His principal works are, Illustrations of the Rock - cut Temples of India, The Palaces of Nineveh and Perse polis Restored ; and the Handbook of Architecture (1855). F. is the architect of the Nineveh Court in the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, near London. D. 1886.