Andrew Dickson White, an American scholar, born at Homer, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1832. He graduated at Yale college in 1853, studied for two years in Europe, and in 1857 was elected professor of history in the university of Michigan. In 1862 he resigned on acconnt of ill health, and was elected to the New York state senate from Syracuse, and reelected in 1864. In 1866 he became president of Cornell university, the establishment of which he had greatly promoted, and in 1868 visited Europe to examine the organization and management of the leading schools of agriculture and technology, and to purchase books and apparatus. From his own resources he has contributed upward of $100,000 to the equipment of the institution. Besides being president, he is professor of modern history. In 1871 he was one of the government commissioners sent to Santo Domingo to study the question of annexing that country. He has published "A Syllabus of Modern History," "The Warfare of Science" (New York, 1876), and many addresses and pamphlets, including "A Word from the Northwest " (London, 1862), in response to strictures in the American "Diary " of Dr. W. H. Russell.