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WEBB. 389 WEBER. wood School and Trinity Collofje, Diililin. He became professor of moral pliilosopliy in the University of Dublin in 1857, regius professor of laws in ISOT, and public orator in 187!*. I'^or several years he was examiner in law at the University of New Zealand, lie i)ul)lished The Intellectualism of Locke (1857), Tke Veil of Isis (1885), and The Irish Land Question (1886). WEBB CITY. A city in Jasper County, Mo., IGO miles .scjulh of Kansas City, on the Missouri Pacific and tlic Saint Louis and San Francisco railroads (Maji: Jlissouri, B 4). It is chiefly important as a mining centre, being situated in the lead and zinc district of southwest Missouri. There are more than two hundred mining plants in operation in the city and vicinity. Other es- tablishmenis include a large foundry, iron works, a (lour mill. etc. The government is vested in a mayor, chosen biennially, and a unicameral council. Topulation, in 1890, 5043; in 1900, 9201. WEBBE, web, William. An English author, who seems to have been active between 15G8 and 1591. He was educated at Saint John's College, Cambridge, where he made the acquaintance of Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser, and grad- uated B.A. in 1573. About ten years later he be- came a private tutor in the household of Ed- ward Sulyard of Elemyngs in Essex. There he composed A Discourse of English Poetrie (15SC; reissued in E. A. Arber's English Reprints, Lon- don, 1870). The work is of interest for the light it throws upon contemporary literature and canons of criticism. To it are appended the first two eclogues of Vergil in hexameter verse. WEB'BEE, Cn.RLES Wilkixs (1819-56). An American journalist and explorer, born in Rus- sellville. Ky. He was one of the Texan Rangers and saw much of the wild frontier life. After- wards he studied medicine and then theology, but abandoned both professions and became con- nected with the yeip World, the Democratic Re- view, and the iSniidatj Despatch in New York City. He organized an expedition to the Colorado and Gila Rivers in 1849. In 1855 he went to Central America. He was killed in Nicaragua, while a member of Walker's filibustering party. He wrote Old Bicks, the Guide, or Ad- rcntyres in the Comanche Country in Search of a Cold Mine (1848), The Gold Mines of the Gila (1849), T<iles of the Southern Border (1852), and Shot in the Eye and Adventures icith the Texan Rifle Rangers (1853). WEBER, vfiTjer, Albrecht (1825-1901). A German Orientalist. He was born at Breslau : studied at the universities of Breslau, Bonn, and Berlin, 1842-45, devoting himself especially to Sanskrit.; visited England and France in connec- tion with his studies, 1846; returned to Germany and was privat-doeent at the University of Ber- lin, 1848-56. In 1856 he became professor of Indian languages and literature, holding this position until his death. Among his works the most important are his edition of the White Yajur Veda (1849-59); Indisehe Sfudien (1849- 85) ; Akadrmische Vorlesungen iiber indisehe Lit- teraturgesehiehte (2d ed. 1876, translated by Zachariae and Mann, London, 1878) ; Vcrzeichnis der Satiskrilhandschriften der koniglichen Bihlio- thek zu Berlin (1853-92) ; a translation of Kali- da.sa's drama Mutaviku und Agnimilra (1850); an I'dition of Hala's Saplasaluka (1881); In- disehe Slreifen (1868-79) ; and numerous briefer eontril)Utions to Oriental ))eriodieals. He also contributed nnicli lexicographical material, es- pecially from Vedie literature, to the Sanskrit- Worlrrbuch Of Biihtlingk Hpv.) and Koth (q.v.) (Saint I'etersburg, 1852-75). WEBER, ErxNSt Heinricii (1795-1878). A German physiologist and anatomist, born at Wittenberg. lie studied meiliciiie at Wittenberg and Leipzig, and was appointed jirofessor of ' comparative anatomy at Leipzig in 1818, pro- fessor of human anatomy in 1821. and, in ad- dition, professor of physiology- in 1840. Hi.'? principal works are Anatomia Comparata A'erwi Sympathici (1817) ; De Anre et Auditu Dominis et Animalium (1820); Wrllenlchre (with his brother Wilhelm, 1825) ; Zusiitze ziir Lehre rom liiiu und ron der Verriehtung der Gesehlechts- organei 1846) ; "Der Tastsinn und das Gemeinge- fiihl," in Wagner's Handwiirtcrbuch der Physio- logic (vol. iii., pt. ii., 1846; also published sepa- rately, 1851); and an im])ortant collection of shorter essays and monographs, entitled Annota- tiones Anatomiew et Pliysiologicw (1851). Weber is well known for his discoveries in anatomy, notably that of the existence of a rudimentary uterus in male mammals, but his greater fame rests upon his pioneer work in thS exploration of the sense organs. His work upon the ear and upon the cutaneous senses — pressure, tempera- ture, and what was then called the "space sense' — gave the deciding impulse to the introduction of the experimental movement into psychology. The important generalization which bears his name (see Weber's Law) was the first valid gen- eralization in psychophysics. WEBER, Georg (1808-88). A German his- torian, born at Bergzabern, in the Rhenish Palat- inate. He studied at Erlangen, in 1839 became a teacher in the High School of Heidelberg, and from 1848 to 1872 was its director. Among Weber's historical publications nia.y be mentioned Geschiclite der englisehen Reformation (1845- 53 1 ; Weltgeschichte in iibersichtlicher Darstel- lung (1866) ; Geschichte des Volkcs Israel (with Holtzmann, 1867) ; and Allgemeine Weltge- schichte fiir die gelildeten Stdnde (1857-80). WEBER, Karl JuLir.s (1767-1832). A Ger- man writer born at Langenburg. in Wiirttemberg. He received his education at Erlangen and Got- tingen, and after some time passed in Switzer- land, became, in 1792. private secretarj- to the Count of Erbach-Schonberg, whom he left in 1799 to accept the post of Government councilor at Konig in Odenwald. Until 1804 he filled va- rious administrative offices, retired then to pri- vate life, but from 1820 to 1824 was a member of the jiopular chamber of_ the Wiirttemberg Estates. Weber is best known for his writings, in which he displays a fresh, original spirit, fine powers of observation, and a talent for witty satire. He was largely influenced by the hu- manistic teachings of the French literature and philosophy, but his reading was wider than France and his sympathies were cosmopolitan. The most celebrated of his works is Demokritos, Oder hintcrlassene Papiere eines laehendcn Phi- losojjien (1832-40), which is still very popular in Germany. He also wrote Moncherei (1818-20),