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animal living in Amer. rivers, resembling the crocodile except in having a more stumpy head and the fourth tooth of the lower jaw fitting into a pit, not a notch, in the upper jaw. The largest a., attaining a length of 20 ft., is the caiman of the Amazon. The small a. sines is occurs in Chin. rivers. EMERY (1871), educator and author: 6. Ells worth, Maine. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Leipzig, and entered upon her scholastic career in 1897 as dean of women and a istant profe or of cla ical philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. From 1900 to 1905 she was dean of the Women’s College, Brown University, which conferred upon her the degree of Litt. D. In 1905 she married Profe or Francis Green leaf All in son. She became a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, Yale Review, North American Review and similar periodicals, and jointly with her husband wrote Greek Lands and Letiers, and Roads from Rome. (1856), college profe or; 6. Burlington, N. J. He was educated at Haver ford College, Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. From 1880 to 1882 taught Greek and Latin at Haver ford and cla ical subjects at the University School, Baltimore. In 1892 he became {identified with Williams College as profe or of Greek and Latin, cla ical philology and Greek literature and _history. His published works include a text book on Greek prose composition, selections from Jucian, and (1920) an swmed (Loeb Cla ical Library, Lonon). 1908), U.S. Senator; 6. Perry, Ohio. He became of national note as a Republican Senator from Iowa for 35 years, his term of service in the Senate extending from 1873 to the end of his life. Previously he was a member of the House of Representatives for eight years. During his long service in Congre he took a leading part in initiating and shaping financial legation, especially as chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and as a member of the Finance Committee. He was the son of a farmer, acquired an elementary education at a district school, and after some private tuition studied at Allegheny College, Pa., and the Western Reserve University. Later he studied law and in 1857 established a practice at Dubuque, Iowa; becoming a member of a law firm there. In 1860 he was a delegate at the Republican National’ Convention at Chicago and called the roll of the State when Lincoln was nominated. At the outbreak of the Civil War he rendered distinguished service in enlisting and equipping volunteers in Iowa. His political leadership in that state was marked in his advancing years by a strong opposition to the progre ive Republican element that developed there, led by Governor (afterwards Senator) A. B. Cummins.