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Chapter 2: Reading and Evaluating Scientific Research

Total
Assessment Chapter 2
Guide Reading and Evaluating Scientific Research
Topic Factual Conceptual Applied
Chapter Quiz Multiple Choice 1,9, 12, 15 2, 4-6,13 3, 7-8, 10-
11, 14

MODULE 2.1: PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

True or False 1-5
Essay 1-2
KNOW…the key terminology related to the Multiple Choice 2,6,12,16,18- 1,8-9,23,37 7,10
principles of scientific research 22,35-36,38
Short Answer 1,3 10
UNDERSTAND…the five characteristics of Multiple Choice 3,25 4,11,39-41 5
quality scientific research Short Answer
UNDERSTAND…how biases might Multiple Choice 25 29-31, 34 24,26-28,32-
influence the outcome of a study 33
Short Answer 2
APPLY…the concepts of reliability and Multiple Choice 13-15,17
validity to examples Short Answer
ANALYZE…whether anecdotes, authority Multiple Choice 43 44-46 42,47
figures, and common sense are reliably Short Answer 4
truthful sources of information

MODULE 2.2: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH DESIGNS

True or False 6-9
Essay 3
KNOW…the key terminology related to Multiple Choice 49-51,54- 95 75
research designs 55,65,74,82-
83,88-89,93-
94
Short Answer 5 7
UNDERSTAND…what it means when Multiple Choice 60-61,70 72 62-64,66-
variables are positively or negatively 69,71
correlated Short Answer
UNDERSTAND…how experiments help Multiple Choice 76-79 81
demonstrate cause-and-effect relationships Short Answer 6
APPLY…the terms and concepts of Multiple Choice 48 52,56-59,80,
experimental methods to understand research 84-87,90-92
examples Short Answer
ANALYZE…the pros and cons of Multiple Choice 73 53
descriptive, correlational, and experimental Short Answer
research designs

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Chapter 2: Reading and Evaluating Scientific Research

Topic Factual Conceptual Applied

MODULE 2.3: ETHICS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
True or False 10-15
Essay 4
KNOW…the key terminology of research Multiple Choice 97 99-101 98,103
ethics Short Answer 8
UNDERSTAND…the importance of Multiple Choice 109
reporting and storing data Short Answer
UNDERSTAND…the ethical guidelines that Multiple Choice 107-108 106
apply to research with humans or other Short Answer
species
APPLY…the ethical principles of scientific Multiple Choice 96,104 105
research to examples Short Answer
ANALYZE…the role of using deception in Multiple Choice 102
psychological research Short Answer
Topic

MODULE 2.4: A STATISTICAL PRIMER

True or False 16-20

Essay 5
KNOW…the key terminology of statistics Multiple Choice 110,112,114,116- 111,122 118,124
117, 121, 123
Short Answer 9
UNDERSTAND…how and why Multiple Choice 125,127
psychologists use significance tests Short Answer
APPLY…your knowledge to interpret the Multiple Choice 113 115
most frequently used types of graphs Short Answer
ANALYZE…the choice of central tendency Multiple Choice 119-120
statistics based on shape of the distribution Short Answer
ANALYZE…the conclusions that Multiple Choice 126
psychologists can reach based on Short Answer
significance tests

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Chapter Quiz Krause and Corts
Chapter 2: Reading and Evaluating Scientific Research

CHAPTER QUIZ IN REVEL

1. By studying a _____, scientists hope that they can generalize the results of their investigation to the _____.
a. sample; population
b. population; sample
c. convenience sample; random sample
d. random sample; convenience sample
Answer: A
Module 2.1
Rationale: Once the sample has been studied, then the results may be generalized to the population as a
whole.
Diff: 1
Skill: Factual
Objective: Know the key terminology related to the principles of scientific research.
APA SLO (2013): 2.1a--Identify basic biological, psychological, and social components of psychological
explanations (e.g. inferences, observations, operational definitions, interpretations).

2. Which of the following is an example of demand characteristics affecting an experiment?

a. An experimenter draws the wrong conclusions from a study because she did not use the correct statistical analysis.
b. A participant changes his response to a question because he has the feeling that the experimenter wants him to do
so.
c. An experimenter stops using a test because it does not appear to be reliable.
d. A participant in a double-blind experiment believes she is in the control group.
Answer: B
Module 2.1
Rationale: These are inadvertent cues given off by the experimenter or the research context suggest how
participants are expected to behave.
Diff: 2
Skill: Conceptual
Objective: Understand how biases might influence the outcome of a study.
APA SLO (2013): 2.4c--Define and explain the purpose of key research concepts that characterize psychological
research (e.g. hypothesis, operational definition).

3. Why it is a bad idea to draw conclusions from anecdotal evidence?

a. Such conclusions usually go against common sense.
b. Anecdotes are reliable only if they come from experts, which they rarely do.
c. Anecdotes are a single-blind technique, not a double-blind method.
d. There is no way to know if the anecdote is true or if it will generalize to other people and situations.
Answer: D
Module 2.1
Rationale: This is an individual’s story or testimony about an observation or event that is used to make a
claim as evidence.
Diff: 3
Skill: Applied
Objective: Analyze whether anecdotes, authority figures, and common sense are reliably truthful sources of
information.
APA SLO (2013): 2.1a--Identify basic biological, psychological, and social components of psychological
explanations (e.g. inferences, observations, operational definitions, interpretations).

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until 1646, when he returned to England, and was rector of
Shenfield in Essex, 1647-52. He is famous as the author of The
Simple Cobler of Aggavvam in America, a piece of satire as able as
it is vindictive and intolerant. The first code of laws made in New
England was drafted by Ward in 1639, and formally adopted in
1644. It is styled The Body of Liberties. Mercurius Anti-
mechanicus, or the Simple Cobbler’s Boy with his Lap-full of
Caveats, is usually attributed to Ward, and probably with truth.
Other writings ascribed to him are, A Religious Retreat Sounded to
a Religious Army; A Sermon before Parliament (1647). See Tyler’s
American Literature; Memoir by John Ward Dean, 1868.
Ward, Samuel. N. Y., 1814-1884. A once prominent banker of New
York city who published Lyrical Recreations.
Ward, Thomas. N. J., 1807-1873. A littérateur of New York city. A
Month of Freedom; Passaic: a Group of Poems; Flora, or the
Gypsy’s Frolic, a pastoral opera; War Lyrics.
Ward, William Hayes. Ms., 1835- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of
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Americana Septentrionalis; L’art de vérifier les dates: chronologie
historique de l’Amérique; A Statistical History of the United States.
Warden, Robert Bruce. Ky., 1824- ——. A lawyer formerly of
Cincinnati, but since 1873 of Washington. A Familiar Forensic
View of Man and Law; A Voter’s Version of the Life and Character
of Stephen Douglas; Private Life of Salmon Chase.
Warder, John Aston. Pa., 1812-1883. A Cincinnati physician very
active in promoting a general interest in forestry and landscape
gardening. Hedge Manual; American Pomology.
Ware, Henry. Ms., 1764-1845. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts,
pastor of Hingham, 1787-1805. His election in the latter year to the
Hollis professorship of divinity at Harvard University precipitated
the dissensions which ultimately resulted in dividing the
Congregational body into Unitarian and Trinitarian portions. Letters
to Trinitarians and Calvinists; Inquiry into Foundation, Evidences,
and Truth of Religion. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Ware, Henry. Ms., 1794-1843. Son of H. Ware, supra. A Unitarian
clergyman of Massachusetts, pastor of the Second Church in
Boston, 1817-30, and Parkman professor at Harvard University,
1830-42. The Vision of Liberty, an ode; Hints on Extemporaneous
Speaking; Discourses on the Offices and Character of Christ;
Sermons on Small Sins; On the Formation of Christian Character,
which has been very widely read; Life of the Saviour; Lives of
Priestley and Noah Worcester, infra. See Memoir by John Ware,
infra; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit. A. U. A.
Ware, John. Ms., 1795-1864. Son of H. Ware, 1st, supra. A Boston
physician, professor of medicine at Harvard University, 1832-58.
History and Treatment of Delirium Tremens; Hints to Young Men
on the Relation of the Sexes; Success in the Medical Profession;
Life of Henry Ware, supra. A. U. A.
Ware, John Fothergill Waterhouse. Ms., 1818-1881. Son of Henry
Ware, 2d, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Baltimore, and
subsequently of Boston. Wrestling and Waiting; Sermons; War
Tracts; The Silent Pastor; Home Life. El. Le.
Ware, Mrs. Katherine Augusta [Rhodes]. Ms., 1797-1843. The wife of
a United States naval officer. She published The Power of the
Passions, and Other Poems.
Ware, Mrs. Mary Greene [Chandler], Ms., 1818- ——. Wife of J.
Ware, supra. Elements of Character; Thoughts in My Garden; Death
and Life.
Ware, Nathaniel A——. Ms., c. 1789-1854. A Southern writer whose
later years were spent in Philadelphia and Cincinnati. Views of the
Federal Constitution; Notes on Political Economy.
Ware, William. Ms., 1797-1852. Son of H. Ware, 1st, supra. A
Unitarian clergyman of New York city, 1821-36, whose historical
novels are still popular. Letters from Palmyra, republished as
Zenobia; Probus, afterwards called Aurelian; Julian; American
Unitarian Biography (edited); Lectures on the Works of Washington
Allston; Sketches of European Capitals; Life of Nathaniel Bacon in
Sparks’s American Biography; Sermons Illustrative of Unitarian
Christianity; Unitarianism the Doctrine of Matthew’s Gospel. See
Allibone’s Dictionary; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Est.
Ware, William Robert. Ms., 1832- ——. Son of H. Ware, 2d, supra. A
professor of architecture in Columbia College School of Mines
from 1881. He has published Modern Perspective. Mac.
Warfield, Benjamin Breckenridge. Ky., 1851- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman and educator, professor of didactic and polemical
theology at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1887. The Divine
Origin of the Bible; Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the
New Testament; The Canon of the New Testament; The Gospel of
the Incarnation, include his more important works.
Warfield, Mrs. Catherine Anne [Ware]. Mi., 1816-1877. Daughter of
N. Ware, supra. A Kentucky novelist who with her sister Eleanor
wrote The Wife of Leon, and Other Poems; The Indian Chamber,
and Other Poems. Her own separate writings include, The
Household of Bouverie; The Romance of the Green Seal; Miriam
Monfort; Hester Howard’s Temptation; A Double Wedding; Lady
Ernestine; Miriam’s Memoirs; Sea and Shore; The Cardinal’s
Daughter; Ferne Fleming; The Romance of Beauscincourt.
Warfield, Ethelbert Dudley. Ky., 1861- ——. A lawyer and educator,
president of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, from 1891.
The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, an Historical Study.
Waring [wā´rĭng], George Edwin. N. Y., 1833-1898. An eminent
sanitary engineer, superintendent of the street-cleaning department
of New York city, 1895-97. The Sanitary Drainage of Houses and
Towns; A Farmer’s Vacation; The Bride of the Rhine; Tyrol and the
Skirt of the Alps; Village Improvements; Farm Villages; Elements
of Agriculture; Draining for Profit and Draining for Health; Book of
the Farm; How to Drain a House; Sewage and Land Drainage;
Sanitary Condition of City and Country Dwellings; Modern
Methods of Sewage Disposal. Co. Hou. Vn.
Warman, Cy. Il., 1855- ——. A Colorado journalist who was for a time
a railway engineer. Tales of an Engineer, with Rhymes of the Rail.
Scr.
Warner, Adoniram Judson. N. Y., 1834- ——. A Federal officer during
the Civil War, since 1866 a resident of Ohio. Appreciation of
Money; Source of Value in Money.
Warner, Amos Griswold. Ia., 1861-1900. A professor of applied
economics in Leland Stanford Junior University, who, beside
reports as superintendent of charities for the District of Columbia,
published, American Charities: a Study in Philanthropy and
Economics; Three Phases of Coöperation in the West. Cr.
Warner, Anna Bartlett. “Amy Lothrop.” N. Y., 1820- ——. Sister of S.
Warner, infra, and co-author with her of Say and Seal; Wych Hazel;
Books of Blessing; Ellen Montgomery’s Bookshelf. Among her
separate novels and religious and other works are, Dollars and
Cents; My Brother’s Keeper; Stories of Vinegar Hill; The Fourth
Watch; The Other Shore; Three Little Spades, a Child’s Book of
Gardening; Gardening by Myself; Up and Down the House. Har.
Lip. Ran.
Warner, Beverley Ellison. N. J., 1855- ——. An Episcopal clergyman
of New Orleans. English History in Shakespeare’s Plays. Lgs.
Warner, Charles Dudley. Ms., 1829-1900. A popular novelist and
essayist of Hartford, editor of The Hartford Courant from 1867, and
one of the editors of Harper’s Magazine, 1884-1898. As a humorous
writer he presents the literary and not the newspaper aspect of
American humour. My Summer in a Garden; Backlog Studies;
Saunterings; Being a Boy; Baddeck and that Sort of Thing;
Mummies and Moslems; In the Wilderness: Adirondack Essays;
Life of Washington Irving; Life of Captain John Smith; In the
Levant; My Winter on the Nile; A Roundabout Journey; On
Horseback, a Tour in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, with
 Notes of Travel in Mexico and California; The Work of Washington
Irving; Studies in the South and West; Southern California; A Little
Journey in the World; Their Pilgrimage; The Golden House; As We
Go; As We Were Saying; The Relation of Life to Literature; Our
Italy. See Vedder’s American Writers; Foley’s American Authors.
Har. Ho. Hou.
Warner, Eliza A——. 18— - ——. A writer of Northampton,
Massachusetts, among whose works are, Tom Tracy; The Red
House; Our Two Lives.
Warner, Susan. “Elizabeth Wetherell.” N. Y., 1818-1885. A once famous
novelist of Highland Falls, New York, whose Wide, Wide World, a
priggish religious tale appearing in 1849, attained an extraordinary
popularity in America and England. Among her other works are,
Queechy; The Old Helmet; Stephen, M. D.; The Hills of the
Shatemuc; Melbourne House; Daisy; Diana; The Law and the
Testimony, a theological work. Lip. Put.
Warner, Zebedee. Va., 1833- ——. A minister of the sect of United
Brethren. Christian Baptism; Rise and Progress of the United
Brethren Church; Life of Jacob Buchtel; The Roman Catholic not a
True Christian Church.
Warren, Cornelia. Ms., 1857- ——. Miss Wilton, a novel. Hou.
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble. N. Y., 1830-1882. A lieutenant-colonel
in the engineer corps, major-general of United States volunteers,
and brevet major-general in the United States army. Explorations in
the Dacota Country in 1855; Exploration of the Country Between
the Missouri and the Platte Rivers; The Battle of Five Forks,
Virginia.
Warren, Henry White. Ms., 1831- ——. A Methodist bishop living in
Denver. The Bible in the World’s Education; Lectures on the Bible
in English; Sights and Insights, or Knowledge by Travel; Studies of
the Stars; Recreations in Astronomy. Har. Meth.
Warren, Ira. Ont., 1806-1864. A journalist and physician of Boston.
Causes and Cure of Puseyism; The Household Physician.
Warren, Israel Perkins. Ct., 1814-1892. A Congregational clergyman,
editor of The Christian Mirror at Portland, Maine, from 1875. Three
Judges; Chauncey Judd; The Seaman’s Cause; Sadduceeism; The
Parousia; The Book of Revelation: an Exposition, include his
principal works. Cr. Fu.
Warren, John. Ms., 1753-1815. A Boston physician, professor of
anatomy at Harvard University from 1783. He was a brother of
 General Joseph Warren who fell at Bunker Hill. Mercurial Practice
in Febrile Diseases.
Warren, John Collins. Ms., 1778-1856. Son of J. Warren, supra. A
Boston physician who succeeded his father as professor of anatomy
at Harvard University in 1815. He was one of the founders in 1820
of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and its chief surgeon till his
death. He published, Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart;
Surgical Observations on Tumors, and lesser works. See Life of, by
E. Warren, 1860.
Warren, John Collins. Ms., 1842- ——. Son of J. M. Warren, infra. A
professor of surgery at Harvard University from 1887. The
Anatomy and Development of Rodent Ulcer; Pathology of
Carbuncle and Columnal Adipose; The Healing of Arteries after
Ligature in Men and Animals; Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics.
Warren, Jonathan Mason. Ms., 1811-1867. Son of J. C. Warren, supra.
A Boston physician. Surgical Observations, with Cures and
Operations. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Warren, Mrs. Mercy [Otis]. Ms., 1728-1814. Sister of James Otis,
supra, very prominent as a literary figure in her day, and especially
esteemed as a political satirist. The Group, a political satire; History
of the American Revolution; three tragedies, including The
Adulator, the Sack of Rome, The Ladies of Castille; Poems:
Dramatic and Miscellaneous. See Griswold’s Female Poets of
America; Mrs. Ellet’s Women of the Revolution; Life of, by Alice
Brown, supra, 1896.
Warren, Nathan Boughton. N. Y., 1805-1898. An author of Troy, New
York. The Ancient Plain Song of the Church; The Order of Daily
Service, with the English Musical Notation; The Holidays; Hidden
Treasure, a Goblin Story.
Warren, Samuel Edward. Ms., 1831- ——. An educator of Newton,
Massachusetts. Elementary Projection Drawing; General Problems
of Shades and Shadows; Problems in Stone Cutting; Descriptive
Geometry; Machine Drawing; The Sunday Question, are among his
published works.
Warren, Thomas Robinson. N. Y., 1828- ——. A traveller and
merchant. Dust and Foam Tracks; The Yachtsman Primer; Shooting,
Boating, and Fishing; On Deck; Juliette Irving and the Jesuit.
Warren, William. Me., 1806-1879. A Congregational clergyman at
Gorham, Maine. School Geography; Household Consecration; The
Spirit’s Sword; Twelve Years Among Children; These for Those.
Warren, William Fairfield. Ms., 1833- ——. A Methodist clergyman,
president of Boston University from 1873. Paradise Found: the
Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole; The True Key to
Ancient Chronology; In the Footsteps of Arminius; Constitutional
Law Questions in the Methodist Church; The Quest of the Perfect
Religion; The Story of Gottlieb. Fl. Hou. Meth.
Warriner, Edward Augustus. Ms., 1829- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Victor La Tourette; Kear, a
Poem; I Am That I Am, a Metrical Essay.
Warriner, Francis. Ms., 1805-1866. A Congregational clergyman who
was a United States naval chaplain, 1831-1834. The Cruise of the
Potomac.
Warrington. See Robinson, W. S.
Washburn, Charles Ames. Me., 1822-1889. A diplomatist who was
minister to Paraguay, 1863-68. The History of Paraguay; From
Poverty to Competence: Graduated Taxation; Political Evolution;
Philip Thaxter; Gomery of Montgomery. Le.
Washburn, Edward Abiel. Ms., 1819-1881. An Episcopal clergyman of
Broad Church views, rector of Calvary Church, New York city. The
Social Law of God; Voices from a Busy Life, a volume of verse;
The Relation of the Episcopal Church to Other Bodies; Epochs of
Church History; Beatitudes, and Other Sermons. Dut. Wh.
Washburn, Emory. Ms., 1800-1877. A lawyer of Worcester, 1828-56;
was governor of Massachusetts, 1854-56; and professor of law in
Harvard University, 1856-76. Sketches of the Judicial History of
Massachusetts; History of Leicester, Massachusetts; Treatise on
American Law of Real Property; American Law of Easements and
Servitudes; Testimony of Experts; Lectures on the Study and
Practice of the Law. Hou. Lit.
Washburn, Francis. N. Y., 1843- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of
Newburg, New York. Meditations on Charity; The Soul Athirst, and
Other Sermons; Thoughts on the Lord’s Prayer. Wh.
Washburn, Israel. Me., 1813-1883. Brother of C. A. Washburn, supra;
governor of Maine, 1861. Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and
Personal, of Livermore, Maine. See Bibliography of Maine.
Washburn, Peter Thacher. Ms., 1814-1870. A lawyer of Woodstock,
Vermont, and governor of his State in 1869. Reports of the Supreme
Court of Vermont; Digest of All Cases in the Vermont Supreme
Court.
Washburn, William Tucker. Ms., 1841- ——. A lawyer and novelist of
New York city. Fair Harvard; The Unknown City, a story of New
York; Spring and Summer, a collection of verse.
Washburne, Elihu Benjamin. Me., 1816-1887. Brother of C. A.
Washburn, supra, but adding an “e” to the family name. A
statesman who was secretary of state in 1869, and minister to
France, 1869-77. Sketch of Edward Coles and the Slavery Struggle
of 1823-24; Recollections of a Minister to France. Scr.
Washington, Booker Taliaferro. Va., 1856- ——. A distinguished
educator of African descent, president of Tuskegee Institute in
Alabama from 1881. Up from Slavery.
Washington, Bushrod. Va., 1762-1829. Nephew of G. Washington,
infra. A jurist of Richmond, Virginia. Reports of Cases in the
Virginia Court of Appeals; Reports of Cases in the United States
Circuit Court, Third District, 1803-27. See Life by H. Binney, 1858.
Washington, George. Va., 1732-1799. The first president of the United
States, and known to general literature by his Farewell Address. His
writings, including his Diary and Correspondence, have been edited
in fourteen volumes by W. C. Ford, supra. See United States
histories; Lives by Marshall, Bancroft, Irving, Paulding, Sparks,
Weems, Ramsay, E. E. Hale, Lodge, and many others; Allibone’s
Dictionary. Put.
Washington, Mrs. Lucy Hall [Walker]. Vt., 1835- ——. A temperance
reformer and verse-writer, the wife of a Baptist clergyman at Port
Jervis, New York. Echoes of Song; Memory’s Casket.
Wasson, David Atwood. Me., 1823-1887. A Unitarian clergyman of
Massachusetts, prominent as a radical thinker, who lived at West
Medford after his retirement from the ministry. Poems; Essays:
Religious, Social, Political. See Memoir of, by O. B. Frothingham,
supra. Le.
Waterbury, Jared Bell. N. Y., 1799-1876. A Presbyterian clergyman
who was city missionary of Brooklyn. Advice to a Young Christian;
Voyage of Life; Sketches of Eloquent Preachers; Southern Planters
and Freedmen, are among his works.
Waterhouse, Benjamin. R. I., 1754-1846. A physician who was
professor of medicine at Harvard University, 1783-1812, and of
natural history at Brown University, 1784-91. Lectures on the
Theory and Practice of Medicine; The Principles of Vitality; The
Botanist; The Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, a novel.
Waterman, Thomas Glasby. N. Y., 1788-1862. A lawyer of
Binghamton, New York, who published The Justice’s Manual.
Waterman, Thomas Whitney. N. Y., 1821-1898. Son of T. G.
Waterman, supra. A lawyer of Binghamton, New York, who edited
many law books and wrote, The Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the
Peace in New York; Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction of Justices in
Wisconsin and Iowa; Principles of Law and Equity; The Law of
Set-Off; The Law of Trespass; The Law Relating to Specific
Performance of Contracts; The Law of Corporations other than
Municipal.
Waters, Mrs. Clara [Erskine] [Clement]. Mo., 1834- ——. An art-
writer of Boston. Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art;
Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works, a
Handbook; Christian Symbols (with K. Conway, supra); Artists of
the Nineteenth Century and their Works (with L. Hutton, supra);
Life of Charlotte Cushman; Eleanor Maitland, a novel; Stories of
Art and Artists; Naples, the City of Parthenope; Venice, Mediæval
and Modern; Constantinople, the City of the Sultans; History of
Painting for Beginners and Students; Rome the Eternal City. Est.
Hou. Sto.
Waters, Robert. S., 1835- ——. An educator of Hoboken, New Jersey.
Life of William Cobbett; Shakespeare Portrayed by Himself; How
Genius Works its Wonders.
Waterston, Mrs. Anne Cabot Lowell [Quincy]. Ms., 1812-1899. Wife
of R. C. Waterston, infra, and daughter of J. Quincy (1772-1864),
supra. Verses by A. C. Q. W.; Adelaide Phillipps, a Record.
Waterston, Robert Cassie. Me., 1812-1893. A Unitarian clergyman of
Boston. Thoughts on Moral and Spiritual Culture; Arthur Lee and
Tom Palmer.
Watson, Beriah Andre. N. Y., 1836-1892. A physician of Jersey City.
Amputations and their Complications; The Sportsman’s Paradise, or
the Lake Lands of Canada.
Watson, Elkanah. Ms., 1758-1842. A noted traveller and agriculturist.
Men and Times of the Revolution, his best-known work, is mainly
autobiographic. Other works of his are, Tour in Holland in 1784;
History of the Canals in the State of New York from 1788 to 1819;
Rise of Modern Agricultural Societies; History of Agricultural
Societies on the Berkshire System.
Watson, Henry Clay. Md., 1831-1869. A journalist of Philadelphia, and
subsequently of California. Camp-fires of the Revolution; Camp-
 fires of Napoleon; Romance of History; Lives of the Presidents;
Nights in a Block-House; Old Bell of Independence; The Yankee
Teapot; Heroic Women of History; Universal Naval History. Le. La.
Watson, James Craig. Ont., 1838-1880. A professor of astronomy in
the University of Wisconsin at the time of his death. He discovered
several asteroids and comets. Popular Treatise on Comets;
Theoretical Astronomy; Simple and Compound Interest Tables.
Watson, James Madison. N. Y., 1827-1900. An educator of Elizabeth,
New Jersey. Handbook of Gymnastics; Manual of Calisthenics, and
a series of Independent Readers.
Watson, John Fanning. N. J., 1780-1860. A bookseller, and
subsequently a banker, of Philadelphia. Historic Tales; Annals of
Philadelphia.
Watson, John Whittaker. N. Y., 1824-1890. A journalist of New York
city. Beautiful Snow and Other Poems; The Outcast and Other
Poems.
Watson, Paul Barron. N. J., 1861- ——. Grandson of J. F. Watson,
supra. A lawyer of Boston. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus;
Bibliography of Pre-Columbian Discoveries of America; The
Swedish Revolution under Gustavus Vasa, a very effective study of
an important epoch in Swedish history. Har. Lit.
Watson, Sereno. Ct., 1826-1892. A noted botanist of Cambridge,
curator of the Herbarium of Harvard University, 1888-92.
Bibliographical Index of North American Botany; Botany of
California (with Gray and Brewer).
Watson, William. Ms., 1834- ——. A professor of mechanical
engineering. Technical Education; Course in Descriptive Geometry;
Course in Shades and Shadows.
Watson, Winslow Cossoul. N. Y., 1803- ——. Son of E. Watson, supra.
Treatise on Practical Husbandry; Pioneer History of the Champlain
Valley; History of Essex County, New York.
Watterson, George. N. Y., 1783-1854. A Washington lawyer who was
the first librarian of Congress. Letters from Washington; The
Wanderer in Washington; Course of Study Preparatory to the Bar or
Senate; The Lawyer, or Man as He Ought Not to Be.
Watterson, Henry. D. C., 1840- ——. A journalist of Louisville, long
prominent as editor of The Courier-Journal. Oddities of Southern
Life and Character.
Wayland, Francis. N. Y., 1796-1865. A Baptist clergyman eminent as a
metaphysician, who was president of Brown University, 1827-55.
 Elements of Moral Science; Intellectual Philosophy; Human
Responsibility; Elements of Political Economy; Occasional
Discourses; Moral Law of Accumulation; Domestic Slavery
Considered as a Scriptural Institution; Sermons to the Churches;
Principles and Practice of Baptist Churches; Letters on the Ministry
of the Gospel. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Lives by his sons, 1867,
Murray, 1890.
Wayland, Heman Lincoln. R. I., 1830-1898. Son of F. Wayland, supra.
A Baptist clergyman, editor of The National Baptist at Philadelphia,
1872-1894, and editor of The Examiner from 1894. Life and Labors
of F. Wayland (with his brother); Faith and Works of Charles
Spurgeon.
Wayman, Alexander Washington. Md., 1821-1895. An African
Methodist bishop. My Recollections; Cyclopedia of African
Methodism; Wayman on Discipline.
Wead, Charles Kasson. N. Y., 1848- ——. An electrician of Hartford.
Aims and Methods of the Teaching of Physics; Lecture Notes on
Sound and Light.
Weaver, George Sumner. Vt., 1818- ——. A Universalist clergyman.
Lectures on Mental Science; Hopes and Helps for the Young; Aims
and Aids for Girls; The Ways of Life; The Christian Household;
The Open Way; Moses and Modern Science; The Heart of the
Word; Lives and Graves of Our Presidents.
Weaver, Jonathan. O., 1824-1901. A clergyman of Ohio, bishop of the
Church of the United Brethren. Discourses on the Resurrection;
Ministerial Salary; Divine Providence; Universal Restoration not
Sustained by the Word of God.
Webb, Alexander Stewart. N. Y., 1835- ——. Son of J. W. Webb, infra.
The president of the College of the City of New York from 1869,
and during the Civil War a general in the Federal army. The
Peninsula; McClellan’s Campaign of 1862. Scr.
Webb, Charles Henry. “John Paul.” N. Y., 1834- ——. A journalist now
living at Nantucket very popular as a humourist in the earlier part of
his career. Liffith Lank; St. Twel’mo’; John Paul’s Book; Parodies
in Prose and Verse; Vagrom Verse. See Hart’s American Literature.
Hou.
Webb, Mrs. Frances Isabel [Currie]. N. J., 1857-1895. A magazinist of
New York city. A Tiff with the Tiffins; Gala Day Books; A Breath
of Suspicion.
Webb, James Watson. N. Y., 1802-1884. A journalist of New York city,
minister to Brazil, 1861-69. Altowan, or Life in the Rocky
Mountains; Slavery and its Tendencies.
Webber, Charles Wilkins. Ky., 1819-1856. A journalist and traveller
who was killed in Walker’s expedition in Nicaragua. Hunter-
Naturalist; Tales of the Southern Border; Old Hicks the Guide; Gold
Mines of the Gila; Shot in the Eye; Adventures with Texas Rifle
Rangers; Wild Scenes and Song Birds; History of Mystery; Spiritual
Vampirism; Texan Virago; Wild Girl of Nebraska; Romance of
Natural History. See Bibliography of Texas. Lip.
Webber, Samuel. Ms., 1759-1810. An educator of Cambridge, professor
of mathematics in Harvard University, 1789-1806, and president of
the same, 1806-10. He published a System of Mathematics that was
for a long time the only text-book on that subject in use in New
England colleges.
Webber, Samuel. Ms., 1797-1880. Son of S. Webber, supra. A physician
of Charlestown, New Hampshire. Zogan, an Indian Tale, in Verse;
War, a Poem.
Webster, Albert Falvey. Ms., 1848-1876. A magazinist of New York
city the best of whose short stories are, Little Majesty; An
Operation in Money; Miss Eunice’s Glove.
Webster, Daniel. N. H., 1782-1852. A distinguished statesman who was
a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1801. He represented New
Hampshire in Congress, 1813-17, and, removing to Massachusetts
in 1816, was a representative from that State, 1823-27. He was a
member of the Senate, 1827-41 and 1845-50, and secretary of state,
1841-1843 and 1850-52. He died at Marshfield, Massachusetts,
October 24, 1852. He was a master of English style, the best of his
orations on especial occasions being those delivered at the second
Pilgrim centennial in 1820, on the laying of the corner-stone of
Bunker Hill Monument in 1825, and the eulogy of Adams and
Jefferson in 1826. See Parton’s Famous Americans; Private Life of,
by C. Lanman, supra; Whipple’s Great Speeches of Webster, 1879;
Atlantic Monthly, February, 1882; Lives by Curtis, Lyman, Smucker,
Everett, Fletcher Webster, Tefft, Lodge; Appletons’ American
Biography; Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia; Allibone’s Dictionary;
Reminiscences of, by Harvey; Biographical Encyclopædia of
Massachusetts. Co. Lit.
Webster, John White. Ms., 1793-1850. A chemist who was professor at
Harvard University, 1824-50, and was tried and executed in 1850