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HABVEST MOON 480 HARZ MOUNTAINS inch photographic telescope, and the me- ridian photometer. In 1914 the univer- sity was divided into the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Faculty of Divin- ity, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Applied Science, Among the other establishments be- longing to the university are the Muse- um of Comparative Zoology (1850); the Botanical Museum; the Mineralogical Museum; the Natural History Labora- tories; the Peabody Museum of Ameri- can Archaeology and Ethnology, founded in 1866 and transferred to the univer- sity in 1897; the Semitic Museum founded in 1889; the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, founded in 1895, and containing, among other treasures the Gray engravings and the Randall en- gravings; the Botanic Garden, founded in 1807, and the Gray Herbarium, pre- sented to the University in 1864; and Radcliffe College, brought into official re- lation with the university in 1894. Be- sides the various department libraries, more than a dozen in number, there is a University Library kept in Gore Hall, numbering 700,000 volumes, and as many maps and pamphlets. In 1764 the li- brary was destroyed by fire, the only works saved being an Oriental collection bequeathed by Dr. Lightfoot, and the Greek and Roman classics presented by Bishop Berkley. The university buildings number more than 60, including the ereat Memorial Hall, built in honor of the alumni who perished in the Civil War. In 1909 Charles W. Eliot retired after 40 years as president, and was succeeded by A. Lawrence Lowell. In 1919 the faculty numbered 827, and the students 4,891. HARVEST MOON, the moon near its full at the time of harvest, or about the autumnal equinox, when it rises at nearly the same hour for several days, owing to the small angle of the ecliptic and the moon's orbit. HARVEY, a city of Illinois, in Cook CO. It is on the Illinois Central, the Grand Trunk, the Baltimore and Ohio, and other railroads, and on the Calumet river. The city is a residential suburb of Chicago. It is, however, an important industrial center. It has manufactures of mining machinery, gas stoves, auto- mobiles, cement, railroad supplies, etc. It has a public library and other impor- tant public buildings. Pop. (1910) 7,227; (1920) 9,216. HARVEY, GEORGE BRINTON McCLELLAN, an American publisher and editor, born in Peacham, Vt., 1864. He was successively connected with the ireportorial staffs of the "Springfield Re- publican," the "Chicago News," and the New York "World." He was also the promoter and the president of a number of electrical railway corporations. At one time he was president of the publishing firm of Harper & Bros. In 1899 he be- came editor of the "North American Re- view." He was appointed ambassador to Great Britain in March, 1921. He was the author of "Women" (1908); and "The Power of Tolerance" (1911). HARVEY, WILLIAM, an English physician; born in Folkestone, Kent, April 1, 1578. He took his degree in arts at Caius College, Cambridge, in 1597 and after five years' study at Pa- dua, he obtained his diploma as doctor of medicine in 1602. After receiving his doctor's degree from his original university, Cambridge, he settled in Lon- don as a physician. In 1609 he was ap- pointed physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and in 1615 Lumleian Lecturer at the College of Physicians — an office then held for life; and it is generally supposed that in his first course of lectures (in the spring of 1616) he ex- pounded those original and complete views of the circulation of the blood with which his name is indelibly associated. It was not till the year 1628 that he gave his views to the world at large, in his celebrated treatise entitled, "Anatomical Study of the Movement of the Heart and the Blood." He was appointed successive- ly physician to James I. and Charles I. Harvey's first step was to prove that the arteries contained not air but blood. He attended the king in his various expedi- tions, and was present with him at the battle of Edgehill (Oct. 23, 1642). On the surrender of Oxford to the Parlia- ment July, 1646, he left the university and returned to London. In 1654 he was elected president of the College of Physicians, but he declined the office on account of his age and infirmities. In July, 1656, he resigrned his Lumleian lec- tureship (held for more than 40 years); and in taking leave of the college pre- sented to it his little patrimonial estate at Burmarsh, in Kent. He died at Hampstead, June 3, 1657. HARZ MOUNTAINS (harts), a mountain range of Germany, extending between the rivers Weser and Elbe, S. of Brunswick, with a length of 57 miles, a breadth of 20, and a superficial area of 900 square miles. It forms an elevated plateau, rising on most sides somewhat steeply from the plains. The range, which is divided into Upper and Lower Harz, the average elevations of which are 2,100 and 1,000 feet, respectively, is com- posed for the most part of rocks be- longing to the Devonian and Lower Car'