HUNT, Thomas Sterry, American chemist, mineralogist and geologist: b. Norwich, Conn., 5 Sept. 1826; d. New York, 12 Feb. 1892. In 1845 he became an assistant to the elder Rh man at Yale College; was chemist and miner alogist to the Canadian Geological Survey 1847-52, professor of chemistry at Laval Uni versity, Quebec, 1856-62, and at McGill Univer sity 1862,-68, and professor of geology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1872-78. In 1859 he invented the green ink with which greenbacks (q.v.) are printed. He was made an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1867; Fellow of the Royal Society in 1859, and was president of the Royal Society of Canada in 1884. He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences; a member and president of the Amer ican Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and of the American Chemical Society. One of the organizers of the first Geological Congress he became its sec retary, and acted as vice-president of the Geo logical Congresses at Paris (1878), Bologna (1881) and London (1888). Among his pub
lished books are 'Chemical and Geological Es says' (Boston 1875) •