WIGGINS, Ezekiel Stone, Canadian meteorologist, born in Queen's county, New Brunswick, 4 December, 1839. He became a teacher in Ontario, and in 1866 was appointed superintendent of schools for Prince Edward county. He was graduated at the Philadelphia college of medicine and surgery in 1868 and at Albert college, Ontario, in 1869, and in 1871 was appointed principal of the new institution for the education of the blind at Brantford, which post he resigned in 1874. From that year till 1878 he was principal of the Church of England college at St. John. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Dominion parliament in 1878, and the same year was appointed to a permanent post in the civil service of Canada. In 1866-'7 he became involved in a controversy with the Universalists, and in the latter year published at Napanee his "Universalism Unfounded." He owes his notoriety chiefly to his predictions of storms, which for many years have been published by newspapers throughout the world. Occasionally his prognostications have been verified, but in the great majority of cases it has been otherwise. At best his successes in this department of meteorology were simply fortunate conjectures. His basis for the prediction of storms, the juxtaposition of planets, is not regarded by men of science as hay-mg any appreciable effect upon the atmospheric condition of the earth. He has published "Architecture of the Heavens" (Montreal, 1864).--His wife, Susan Anna Gunhilda, born in Lakeside, Queens County, New Brunswick, 6 April, 1846, greatly aided by her writings and personal appeals in securing the passage of the bill to legalize marriage with a deceased wife's sister, through the Canadian senate. In recognition of her services in this particular her bust has been placed in the parliamentary library at Ottawa, Canada.