Henry of Hunting don

an Enzlish chronicler; was brought = the household of the Bishop of Lincoln, and about 1120 became Arch: deacon of Hunting don. His great work is a “ History of the English.” Henry, Joseph, an American physicist; born in Washington, D. C., Dec. 17, 1797; received a common school education; later turned his attention to the study of science; discovered how to _— the electromagnet, about 1827; and afterward greatly improved it. He built the first electro-magnetic telegraph, about a mile long, in 1880; designed the first electro-magnetic engine in 1831; war connected with the Smithsonian Institution in 1846-1878; was twice offered the go, of Princeton College, and had other tempting offers to leave Washington, but refused them all to give his time to the equipment and care of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the author of yee of Lectures on Physics” (1844), and of more than 150 papers on scientific sub< jects. He died in Washington, D. C,, May 17, 1878.