COLLINS, Jon's; ( 1848— ). An English educator and author. He was born at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. and grad uated at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1872. He contributed largely to the reviews, strenuously opposing the philological method of literary study, and was active in the university exten sion movement. He is a writer of great force and wit, and eomhines accurate scholarship with a lucid and luminous literary style. Besides editions of Cyril Tournenr (1878). Lord Herbert of Cherhury (1881), Robert Greene (1899), and other English authors, he published Sir Joshua Reynolds as a Portrait-Painter (1874) ; Boling broke and Voltaire in England (1886); Study of English Literature (1891) ; illustrations of Tennyson (1891); The Early Poems of Tenny son, with bibliography and various readings (1900) ; Ephemera Critica (1901) Dean Swift (1893) ; and Essays and Studies (1S95).
COLLINS„losErn WILLIAIL (1839—). An American pisciculturist. Ile was born at Isle boro, Maine, and when very was employed on a fishing vessel. He afterwards became estab lished at Gloucester, Mass. He prepared statis tics on the New England fisheries for the Tenth Census, and also submitted the results of his investigations to the United States Fish Com mission. He represented the United States at the International Fisheries Expositions held at Berlin in 1880, at London in 1883. and at Ber gen, Norway, in 1898; and he was director of the Department of Fisheries during the Colum bian Exposition. In 1884 he organized the sec tion of naval architecture in the United States National Museum, and was curator of the department for nearly ten years. He was ap pointed president of the Commercial Fisheries Association in 1894.