IVIeMAS'TER, Guy HUMPHREYS (1829-87). An American jurist and poet, born at Clyde, N. Y. He graduated at Hamilton College and studied for the bar. Meanwhile he had written Carmen Bellieosum, his most popular poem, which first appeared in the Knickerbocker Maga zine (1849). He was elected judge of Steuben County, N. Y., in 1864, and surrogate of the same county in 1884. Ile wrote A History of Struben. County (1849) : his other poem-3 in chide: Dream of Thanksgiring Ere (1864) The Commanders (1S87) ; and The Professor's Guest Chamber (1880).
NeMASTER, Joicc BACH (1852-). An American historian, born in Brooklyn. N. Y. He graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1872, and after spending one year there as a fellow in English, he became a civil engineer. Ile became known as a writer on engineering sub jects and in 1877 was appointed an instructor in civil engineering at Princeton. This position he held until 1883, when he was elected professor of American history at the University of Pennsyl vania. In the same year appeared the first vol ume of A History of the People of the United States, designed to cover the period from 1783 to the outbreak of the Civil War. Five volumes
had been completed by 1900. It is a work show ing great research, particularly in the periodical literature and the newspapers; is written in a lively narrative style and is justly considered one of the standard histories of the period which it covers. Among his other published works are: Bridge and 'funnel Centres (1876) ; High Mason ry Dams (1876) ; Benjamin Franklin as a. Man of Letters (1887) ; Origin, Meaning and Applica tion of the Monroe Doctrine (1893) ; A Primary School History of the United States (1393); With the Fathers: Studies in American History (1896); A School History of the United States (1897) ; and Daniel Webster (1902).
MacMIL'LAN, CONWAY ( 1867— ) . An American botanist, born at Hillsdale, Mich. He was a graduate of the University of Nebraska, and afterwards studied at Harvard and at Johns Hopkins. In 1891 be was appointed professor of botany at the University of Minnesota, and he was also appointed State botanist. His works include: Twenty-two Common Insects of Ne braska (188S) ; and The Metaspernice of the Min nesota Valley (1892).