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hospital. He wrote, besides a number of sermons and prayers in the aboriginal language, " Arte de la lengua Chontal " (in manuscript) and •' Doetrina Cristiana " in Cliontal, almost the only work that is left in that language (Seville, 1659).

CABRANZA, Jeronimo de, Spanish adminis- trator, b. in Seville about 1535 ; d. in Spain about ]6t)0. In 1589 he came to America, and served for ten years as governor of Honduras, when he re- turned to Spain. He was an adept with the sword, an(l first reduced to practice the theory of swords- manship propounded by Jean Pons, of Perpignan. He finished in 1569 a work entitled "Librode Hie- ronimo de t'aran(;a, natural de Sevilla, que trata dela philosophia delas annas y de sv destreza, y de la aggresio y defensio C'hristiana," which was pub- lished at San Lucar de Barrameda in 1582. In 1600 Luis Pacheco de Narvaez published at Ma- drid an epitome or abridgment entitled " Libro de las grandezas de la espada, en que se declaran mu- chos secretos del que compuso el Comendador Ge- ronimo de Carranza." The Biblioteca Colombina at Seville possesses two manuscripts of works re- lating to Carranza, one entitled " Los cinco libros sobre la Ley de la Injuria, de palabra 6 de obra, en que se incluyen las verdaderas resoluciones de la honra, y los medios con que se satisfacen las afren- tas," etc., the other " Diseurso de Annas y Letras sobre las palabras del proemio de la Instituta del Einperador Justiniano ; y una deelaraeion en verso, en razon de los mordaces murmuradores y Deca- dencia de las Ciencias, Artes, Pacultades, y Sabi- duria, por haber censurado los escritos del autor Jer6ninio Sanchez de Carranza," etc.

CARRERE, John Merven, architect, b. in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 9 Nov., 1858, the son of Amer- ican parents. He was educated in Switzerland, and graduated at the celebrated fioole des Beaux- Arts in Paris, France, in 1882. Establishing him- self in New York as an architect, he three years later formed a partnership with Tlioinas Hastings (see vol. iii., page 113). The firm have designed and erected many prominent public and private buildings in that city and elsewhere, including the picturesque Ponce de Leon and Alcazar hotels in St. Augustine, Fla. To this firm was awarded,

CARROLL, Anna Ella, patriot, b. in Kingston Hall, Somerset eo., Md., 29 Aug., 1815 ; d. in Wash- ington, D. C, 19 Feb., 1894. She was a daughter of Thomas King Carroll, governor of Maryland. The daughter began at an early age to interest herself in political subjects, writing pamphlets and contributing to periodicals. At the beginning of the civil war she became an ardent advocate of the National cause, and set free her slaves. In 1861 she submitted to the government a plan for con- ducting military operations in the west and south, by which she proposed to divert operations from the Mississippi to the Tennessee, and thus work southward to the center of the confederacy. This plan, as she claim, was adojited, and in 1870, in a memorial to congress, she asked that her services should be recognized and rewarded. The military committee of the house, in 1881, presented a favor- able report upon it, accompanied by a bill bestow- ing upon her the salary of a major-general from 1861 to the end of her life " as a partial measure of recognition of her services to the nation " ; but un- fortunately no further steps were taken in regard to Sliss Carroll's claims. See " A Military Genius," by Sarah Ellen Blackwell (Washington, 1895).

CARSON, Joseph, physician, b. in Philatlel- phia. Pa., 19 April, 1808 ;"d. there, 30 Dec, 1876. His grandfather, Joseph Carson, emigrated from Scotland, and was one of the shipping merchants of Philadelphia that signed the non-importation resolutions and gave his credit to the Continental congress in the struggle for independence. The grandson was graduated at the University of Penn- sylvania in 1826, at the medical department in 1830, and began practice two years later in Phila- delphia. He was professor of materia medica in the Philadelphia college of pharmac^y in 1836-'50' and in the University of Pennsylvania in 1850-'76, then becoming emeritus professor. He was asso- ciated with various hospitals, was a vice-president of the Academy of sciences, and in 1870 president of the national convention for revising the phar- macopa'ia of the United States. In 1835 he was made fellow of the college of physicians. Dr. Car- son was co-editor of the "American Journal of Pharmacy," and edited " Elements of Materia Med- over numerous competitors, the new building now in course of construction in Bryant park for the New York public library — Astor, Lenox, and Til- den foundations — which it is expected will be completed before the close of the century, and which is represented in the accompanying illustra- tion. This noble building, which is to cost $2,500,- 000 exclusive of the site, it is believed will be second only to the Library of Congress among edifices yet erected for library purposes. Carrere & Hastings also won the first prize for the fine building to be erected by them near the cathedral. Morningside park, for the National academy of design. iea," by Jonathan Pereira, M. D.. with notes and additions (Philadelphia, 1843: 2 vols., 1845), and " Materia Jledica and Therapeutics," by J. Forbes Royle, M. I). (1847). Besides many papers to sci- entific journals, he published " Illustrations of Medical Botany" (Philadelphia, 1847): synopses of lectures on materia medica and therapeutics (1852-67); and "History of the Medical Depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania " (1869).

CARTER, Thomas Henry, senator, b. in Scioto county, Ohio, 30 Oct., 1854, received a common-school education in Illinois. For several years he was engaged in farming and school-teaching, after