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TH0MAS, Cyrus, ethnologist, born in Kingsport, Tennessee, 27 July, 1825. He studied law, and followed that profession until 1865, holding in 1850-'3 the office of county clerk of Jackson county, Illinois In 1865 he entered the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran church, but in 1869 he joined the scientific corps of the geological and geographical surveys of the territories under Ferdinand V. Hayden. He was elected professor of natural sciences in the Southern Illinois normal university in 1873, and in 1876 was appointed state entomologist of Illinois. A year later he became a member of the United States entomological commission, and since 1882 he has been archaeologist to the United States bureau of ethnology. He is a member of scientific societies, and has contributed to the "Evangelical Quarterly Review," "American Antiquarian," and other journals. His work for the government has appeared in the reports of the survey, the entomological commission, and the ethnological bureau, and in-eludes "Synopsis of the Aerididva of North America" (Washington, 1873); "Reports of the State Entomologist on the Noxious and Beneficial Insects of Illinois" (5 vols., 1876-'80); in part "Reports on the Rocky Mountain Locust" (2 vols., 1878-'80); "Study of the Manuscript Troano" (1882); " Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts" (1884) ; and "Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States" (1888).
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