FEATHERS TON HAUGH

George William . b. London 1780; went to U.S. America 1807 where he married and resided; geologist of U.S.A. in journeys through Mexico and Arkansas 1834–5; commi ioner to determine boundary between U.S.A. and British North America 1839; British consul at Havre 29 Oct. 1844 to death; instrumental in bringing Louis Philippe and his queen to England 3 March 1848; F.R.S. 2 April 1835; edited the monthly American journal of geology from 1831; author of The Republic of Cicero , translated 1829; Excursion through the slave states 2 vols. 1844; A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor 2 vols. 1847 and other books. d. Havre 27 Sep. 1866. Quarterly Journal of Geological Soc. xxiii, pp. xliii-v (1867).