on the banks of what is now known as Coppermine River, but traced the course of that river until it joined the. Arctic Ocean. After an absence of eighteen months and twenty-three days be arrived at Fort Churchill, of which he was subsequently promoted to be the Governor. He returned to England in 1787, and died there in 1792. An account of his journeys from Prince of Wales Fort to the Northern Ocean was published posthumously in 1795.

"HEARNE, Thomas (1678-1735), an English antiquary, was born in 1678 at Littlefield Green, in the parish of White Waltham, Berkshire, where his father, the parish clerk, in payment of the rental of the vicarage house in which he lived, taught ten boys yearly. Thomas, after receiving the rudiments of education from his father. was sent, by the kindness of a gentleman, to the free school of Bray, on purpose to learn the Latin tongue. This gentleman in 1695 took him into his house. and his education was continued at Bray till the Easter of 1696, when he was sent to study at Edmund Hall Oxford. There his diligence and scholarship attracted the attention of Dr. John Mill, the editor of the Greek Testament with various readings, who employed him to compare several MSS. Hearne took the degree of B.A. in 1699, and on account of the reputation h he had acquired for his knowledge of books he was, in 1701, appointed assistant keeper of the Bodleian Library. There, at his own option. he set himself diligently to correct the catalogue, and prepared an appendix which was afterwards incorporated in the new catalogue without acknowledgement.

"His interest in the antiquarian treasures of the library induced him to refuse many valuable preferments, and in 1712 he was appointed second keeper, with the stipulation made by himself that he should also be janitor, so as to obtain access to the library at any time he pleased.

In 1714 or 1715 he was elected architypographus or esquire beadle of civil law in the university, but an objection being taken to his holding this office along with that of second librarian, he resigned it in the November following. In January, 1716, he was compelled, on account of his refusal to take the oaths to the Government to resign also his appointment of librarian, but he continued to reside principally at Oxford, where he occupied himself chiefly in preparing for publication the works of old English authors. His injudicious and inappropriate insertion of Jacobite sentiments in his

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