COLLINS
COLLINS
appointed in 1888 cliief of the division of fisheries
of the U.S. fish commission and the same year
he liad charge of the commission's exhibit at
Cincinnati, Ohio. He organized a section of
naval architecture in the U.S. national museum
and was honorary curator from 1884, and was
also made curator of the section of fisheries in
1891. President Harrison appointed him in 1890
representative of the U.S. fish commission on
the government board of management and con-
trol at the World's Columbian exposition,
Chicago, and after completing the exhibit for the
commission he resigned this position and his
connection with the Fish commission in Decem-
ber, 1892. He was cliief of the department of
fisheries of the World's Columbian exposition
from February, 1891, to the close. In 1898 he was
U.S. commissioner to the International fisheries
exhibition at Bergen, Norway. He was elected
an honorary member of various scientific and
fisheries societies of Europe and the United
States. He came to be recognized as the histo-
rian of the American fisheries, and as a fisheries
statistician. He edited the Fishing Gazette, and
in addition to reviews in Fisheries and Fishery
Industries of the United States, he wrote History
of the Tile Fish; The Introduction of Gill Nets in the
American Cod Fishei'y; The Beam Trawl Fishery of
Great Britain; Beportsonthe Fishing Grounds of the
Gulf of Mexico; Suggestions for Improvements in
Fishing Vessels; The Construction and Eqzdponent
of the Schooner Gramptis; Beport on the Cruise of the
Grampus to Neufoundland, Labrador and the Gulf
of St. Lawrence, in 1889; The Fisheries of the
Pacific Coast; Statistical Beview of the Coast Fisher-
ies of the United States for 1887 and 1888; Beport
tipon the Fishing Vessels and Boats of the Pacific
Coast; Notes on the Oyster Fishei'y of Connecticut;
Fisheries of the United States; Decadence of the New
England Deep-sea Fisheries; Evolution of the Ameri-
can Fishing Schooner; and many other papers.
COLLINS, Napoleon, naval officer, was born in Pennsylvania, May 4, 1814. He entered the U.S. navy from Iowa as midshipman in 1834, studied at the naval school, Philadelphia, in 1840, and became passed midshipman, July 16, 1840. He was promoted master, Aug. 15, 1846, and lieu- tenant Nov. 6, 1846, and during the Mexican war took part in the siege of Tuxpan and Tabasco on board the sloop of war Decatur. In the civil war he commanded the Anacosta of the Potomac fleet in 1861, was transferred to the gunboat Unadilla, and joined the Soutli Atlantic squadron in the operations of 1861-63. On July 16, 1863, lie was made commander of the Octorora of the West In- dian squadron, was transferred to the Wachitsett in 1863, and directed his attention to the Con- federate cruisers then operating against United
States commerce. He captured the Florida in
the harbor of Bahia, Brazil, Oct. 7, 1864, under
the guns of the Brazilian fleet, towed his prize
out of the harbor and delivered her to the United
States authorities at Hampton Roads, Va. While
at anchor there she was run into by a transport
and sunk. Brazil demanded her rendition, and
Secretary Seward disavowed the act of Com-
mander Collins who was tried by court-martial.
He was promoted captain, July 25, 1866 and com-
modore, Jan. 19, 1871. On Aug. 9, 1874, he was
made rear-admiral in command of the South Paci-
fic squadron. He died at Callao, Peru, Aug. 9,1875.
COLLINS, Patrick Andrew, diplomatist, was
born near Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland, March
13, 1844; son of Bartholomew and Mary (Leahy)
Collins. His mother, with a large family of
fatherless children, emigrated to America in
1848 and settled in Chel-
sea, Mass., where Pat-
rick, the youngest, at-
tended the common
schools. He was subse-
quently an errand boy
in a Boston law office,
clerk in a store, a coal
miner in Ohio, and an
upholsterer in Boston.
He became identified
with the Irish move-
ment in 1863, and was
elected by the Suffolk
county organization a
delegate to the Fenian
conventions of 1865 at
Cincinnati, Ohio, and at Philadelphia, Pa., of
which latter he was secretary. He was a member
of the Massachusetts house of representatives in
1868 and 1869, and of the state senate in 1870 and
1871. Meanwhile he studied law, was graduated at
the law school of Harvard university, and was ad-
mitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1871. In
1875 Governor Gaston appointed him judge advo-
cate-general. He was a delegate-at-large from
Massachusetts to the Democratic national con-
ventions of 1876, 1880, 1888 and 1892 and was per-
manent chairman of the national convention at
St. Louis, 1888. In the national convention of
1892 he seconded the nomination of Grover Cleve-
land for President. He represented the 4th
Mas.sachusetts district in the 48tli, 49tli and 50th
congresses, where he served on the committees
on the judiciar}"^ and on Pacific railroads. When
in 1880 representatives of the Irish societies of
the United States and Canada assembled at
Buffalo, N.Y., in support of Mr. Parnell's policy
in aid of Ireland and home rule, Mr. Collins,
though not present, was elected president of
the Irish national land league then permanently
