HUNTER, SIR WILLIAM WILSON Brit ish publicist, son of a Glasgow manufacturer, was born at Glasgow on July 15, 184o. He was educated at Glasgow university, Paris and Bonn, and entered the Indian civil service in 1862. In 1869 the governor-general asked Hunter to submit a scheme for a comprehensive statistical survey of the Indian empire. The early period of his undertaking was devoted to a series of tours which took him into every corner of India. He himself supervised the statistical accounts of Bengal (2o vols., 1875-77) and of Assam (2 vols., 1879). The various statistical accounts, when completed, comprised no fewer than 128 volumes. The Imperial Gazetteer of India, condensed from this mass of material, appeared in 9 volumes in 1881 (2nd ed., 14 vols., ; 3rd ed., 26 vols., including altas, 1908). After his retirement he ar ranged with the Clarendon Press to publish a series of Rulers of India, to which he himself contributed volumes on Dalhousie (189o) and Mayo (1892). He died at Oaken Holt on Feb. 6, 1900.