REID, Harry Fielding, American geolo gist: b. Baltimore, Md., 18 May 1859. He was educated at the Pennsylvania Military Academy and at the Johns Hopkins University, later studying in England and Germany in 1884-86. He was connected with the faculty of the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, in 1886 94; with the University of Chicago in 1895-96; and in 1896 went to Johns Hopkins, where he has been professor of dynamical geology and geography since 1911. He has been special ex pert in charge of the earthquake section of the United States Geological Survey since 1902 and in 1917 he was one of the National Research Council sent to Europe by the government to study scientific developments in connection with the European War. Author of 'Parts VI VIII, Highways of Maryland' (1899) ; and joint author of 'Second Report on Highways of Maryland ' (1902 ) ; 'Report of California State Earthquake Investigation Committee, Vol. IP (1910).
REID (Thomas), Mayne, British author of tales of adventure : b. Ballyroney, County Down, Ireland, 4 April 1818; d. near Ross,
Herefordshire, England, 22 Oct. 1883. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he was educated for the ministry, but love of adventure took him to this country, where he engaged in various call ings and traveled widely as hunter and trader. In 1843 he was a journalist in Philadelphia, but joined the United States army as a volunteer in 1846 and fought in the Mexican War, his ex periences in which furnished him with mate rials utilized in several novels. He afterward went to London and became well known as a writer of thrilling stories, many of them based on his American experiences, such as 'The Rifle 'Scalp Hunters); 'The War 'The Headless Horseman,' etc. He re turned to America in 1867 and founded the Onward• Magazine, which was unsuccessful, and in 1870 went back to England. Many of his tales were translated into French and German. They were all very readable and healthy in tone, though extravagant in incident. Consult 'Memoir' by his wife (1890).