MACQUARIE (ma-kwarri) ISLAND, British island, the largest of a small group of islands off the south coast of New Zealand and belonging to that country. It is about 4 by 20 miles in extent, is well covered with grassy vegetation and has trees and shrubs in sheltered sections. It was formerly a good seal hunting ground but the seals were practically exterminated through ,lack of restrictions in hunting them. Penguins and other sea fowl abound and there are large herds of sea ele phants. The island was discovered in 1810 and until the destruction of the seals was visited by numerous sealers. Its only inhabitants at the time it was made a base of the Mawson Expedition of 1911-14 were a few men sta-. tioned by •a New Zealander for the purpose of rendering sea elephant and penguin blubber. The island is the crest of a submarine mountain, soundings taken 10% miles east of its shore recording 2,745 fathoms and no bottom. There are several anchorages, but no harbor. There is now a permanent weather and relief station on the island, equipped with a wireless appa ratus. Consult Mawson, Sir Douglas, The Home of the Blizzard' (2 vols., 1914).
MacQUEARY, ma-kwe'ri, Thomas How ard, American educator: b. Charlottesville, Va., 27 May 1861. He was graduated from the Episcopal Theological School at Alexandria, Va., in 1886, took orders in the Episcopal Church and in 1887 became rector at Canton, Ohio. His religious views having undergone a radical change he was tried by an ecclesi astical council for denial of miracles and sus pended from the ministry for six months. He accordingly resigned from it in September 1891, and was for some time in the Universalist ministry. He returned to college for special
work and in 1898 took his M.A. degree at the University of Minnesota, later (1901) finishing the work for the Ph.D. degree in history and economics at the University of Chicago, al though he did not publish his thesis and take the degree. He founded Unity House Social Settlement in Minneapolis; from 1900-06 was superintendent of the Parental School in Chi cago, and since 1906 has been head of the department of history and head assistant in Soldan High School, Saint Louis, Mo., and teacher of political science in Benton College of Law. He is the author of The Evolution of Man and Christianity' (1889) ; of the Times> (1890). He has done considerable lec ture work for Chautauquas and other societies.
McQUILLEN, John Hugh, American dentist : b. Philadelphia, Pa., 12 Feb. 1826; d. there, 3 March 1879. He began the study of medicine and dentistry in 1847, engaged in the practice of dentistry in 1849, took his M.D. at Jefferson Medical College in 1852 and his D.D.S. at the Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery in 1853. He became professor of operative dentistry and dental physiology at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1857. In 1863 he was instrumental in securing a charter for the Philadelphia Dental College and he was from that time until his death its dean and professor of physiology. He was president of the American Dental Association, the Pennsylvania Dental Society, the State Odontographic Society. He edited Dental Cos mos in 1859-71.