Carr, Joseph

B., general of volunteers, was born in Albany, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1828. He held the position of lieutenant-colonel of the Second New York Volunteers in the Civil War, and was made colonel May 10, 1861. The first volunteer regiment to leave the State was the Second. C. was commi ioned a brigadier general of volunteers in 1862, and took part in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac up to the surrender of General Lee, April, 1865. He was brevetted major-general March, 1865, and discharged from service in Sept. of the same year. The State of New York elected him Secretary of State in 1881, and he held the same office again in 1883. He received the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor of New York by the Republican Convention, Sept. 23, 1885. Died in Troy, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1895. Carrageen Mo , or Irish Mo . The common name of several species of algæ, so named from Carragheen, in southern Ireland, but occurring elsewhere on rocky coasts of European countries, and on the shores of eastern North America. Chondrus crisp us , one of the red algæ, yields most of the carrageen of commerce. It is used both as an article of food and a medicine, and is palatable and easy of digestion. By boiling the IMG:content-0477.png:[graphic] Fig . 2772.-BUFFING TON-CROZIER DISAPPEARING GUN CARRIAGE, LOADING POSITION. sued his studies at the University of Michigan, and at Johns Hopkins University. He was appointed Profe or of Engineering at the Colorado Agricultural College, and meter ologist and irrigation engineer on the Agricultural Experiment Station, in 1888. The first course in irrigation engineering given in any American college was instituted by him. In the Congre ional investigation (1890), relating to artesian wells, Colorado and New Mexico made him their special agent. He founded the American Society of Irrigation Engineers, 1891, and is a member of the British A ociation for the Advancement of Science, .