The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . soproficient in vocal musicthat he was leader of aMassachusetts villagechoir and a teacher ofsinging-classes. In 1812he went to Savannah,Georgia, and there con-tinued to practice, leadand teach. In the courseof these labors heformed, ^\^th the help of F. L. Abel, a collectionof psalm-tunes, pub-lished by the Handeland Haydn Society of Boston in 1822, under thetitle of the Handel and Hayden Societys Collection ofChurch Music, Masons name being almost en-tirely suppressed. In 1827 he removed to Bos-ton, where
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . soproficient in vocal musicthat he was leader of aMassachusetts villagechoir and a teacher ofsinging-classes. In 1812he went to Savannah,Georgia, and there con-tinued to practice, leadand teach. In the courseof these labors heformed, ^\^th the help of F. L. Abel, a collectionof psalm-tunes, pub-lished by the Handeland Haydn Society of Boston in 1822, under thetitle of the Handel and Hayden Societys Collection ofChurch Music, Masons name being almost en-tirely suppressed. In 1827 he removed to Bos-ton, where he labored zealously to raise thestandard of church music. He formed musicalclasses, held institutes and delivered lectures inmany New England towns and cities, and wasprominent in the founding of the Academy ofMusic in Boston. In 1837 he visited Europe tostudy on the Continent and in Great Britain thelatest methods of musical instruction, and what-ever he approved he adopted and used. The lastyears of his life were passed with his sons atOrange, New Jersey, where he died Aug. ir,. LOUELI. MASON. 44 MASON —MASSACHUSETTS 1872, his devotion to musical study and composi-tion continuing to tlie end. Doctor Mason was avoluminous author, and alone, or in connectionwith George James Webb, published more thanforty collections of church and Sunday-schoolmusic, glee-books, etc. He probably did morethan any other American to make music popularin the church, school and home. Doctor Ma-sons library, considered the finest collection ofmusical works in the United States, was be-queathed to Yale college. In 1855 he receivedfrom the University of the City of New York thedegree of , the first degree of the kindever conferred in America. MASON, Otis Tufton, an American anthro-pologist; born in Eastport, Maine, April 10, childhood was spent in Virginia, and his edu-cation received at Columbian University, wherehe afterward taught for a number of years. Hebecame curator of the de
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