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he became one of the editors and proprietors 

 of the "Forest and Stream. 1 ' His contribu- 

 tions were not confined to this one periodical ; 

 he wrote many stories and bits of travel which 

 were published in Scribner's and other maga- 

 zines. 



WATSON, JAMES CRAIG, LL. D., was born of 

 American parents in Elgin County, Ontario, 

 in 1838. He graduated at the University of 

 Michigan, in 1857. He became Instructor of 

 Mathematics there, and assistant at the observa- 

 tory. He was appointed Professor of Astrono- 

 my in 1859, Professor of Mathematics and Phys- 

 ics in 1860, and director of the observatory in 

 1863. In 1870 he was awarded the gold medal of 

 the French Academy of Sciences for his dis- 

 covery of eighteen asteroids. He went with the 

 American expedition to Peking to watch the 

 transit of Venus. While there he added a new 

 asteroid to his list of discoveries. He gave it the 

 name of Ne-wha, a Chinese goddess, who is said 

 to have righted the heavens once when they had 

 fallen into chaos. He observed the great solar 

 eclipse of 1878 from Wyoming. His name is 

 also connected with the discovery of a planet 

 between Mercury and the sun. A fine observ- 

 atory was built at Madison, Wisconsin, espe- 

 cially for his use. He is the author of " A 

 Popular Treatise on Comets" (1860), and 

 " Theoretical Astronomy " (1868). He died at 

 Madison, Wisconsin, on November 23d, at the 

 age of forty-two. 



WINCHESTER, OLIVER F., ex-Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor of Connecticut, was born in Boston, in 

 1810. He amassed great wealth, which he in- 

 vested in a manufactory of rifles. He was 

 President of the Winchester Repeating-Arms 

 Company. In 1866 he was elected Lieutenant- 

 Governor of Connecticut. He made many 

 benefactions to Yale College, and was founder 

 of the Winchester Conservatory at Yale. He 

 died December 10th, at New Haven. 



WOLFE, JOEL, a direct descendant of General 

 Wolfe, was born in Richmond, Virginia. He 

 died in N"ew York, on November 25th. He 

 studied medicine, but abandoned it for a mer- 

 cantile life. In 1846 he retired with a compe- 

 tent fortune. He was the originator of many 

 charitable enterprises, and devoted his time and 

 means to philanthropic objects during the last 

 thirty-five years of his life. 



WOOD, JOHN, ex-Governor of Illinois, died at 

 Qiiincy, Illinois, on June 4th. He was born 

 on December 20, 1798, in Cayuga County, New 

 York. He went to Illinois in 1819. He was 

 the founder of the city of Quincy, having been 

 its first and only settler in the year 1822. He 

 was successively City Councilman, repeatedly 

 reflected Mayor, State Senator, and Governor. 



WOOLWORTH, SAMUEL BUELL, LL. D., died in 

 Brooklyn, New York, on June 30th. For more 

 than half a century his life was devoted to the 

 cause of education. "In 1852 his marked ability 

 caused his appointment as Principal of the State 

 Normal School at Albany. He was elected, in 

 1856, Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of 



Regents. This office he resigned in January, 

 and by unanimous vote was appointed Hono- 

 rary Secretary of the Board on the acceptance 

 of his resignation. 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. ANSTED, DAVID 

 THOMAS, an English physicist, born in London, 

 in 1814; died May 20, 1880. He was appointed 

 in 1840 Professor of King's College, London, 

 in 1845 Lecturer on Geology, in the East India 

 Military Seminary at Addiscombe, and in the 

 same year Professor of Geology at the College 

 of Civil Engineers, Putney. He is the author 

 of a large number of works and essays chiefly 

 on geology. Among his latest writings are 

 "Physiography" (1877), and " Water, Physi- 

 cal, Descriptive, and Practical" (1878). In 

 1874 he was engaged in directing the works of 

 the Laurian Lead-smelting Company in Greece. 



APTTZZO, FRANCESCO, cardinal, priest, and 

 Archbishop of Capua, was born in Naples, 

 April 7, 1807 ; died July 27, 1880. At the Vat- 

 ican Council, he made a moderate opposi- 

 tion to the declaration of the dogma of papal 

 infallibility, but accepted the doctrine after 

 its promulgation. He was made a cardinal in 

 1877. In the same year he was appointed . 

 Archbishop of Naples upon the death of Cardi- 

 nal Kiario Sforza, and took possession of the 

 see without asking the royal exequatur, thus 

 precipitating a conflict between the Govern- 

 ment of Italy and the Papal Court. He was 

 not recognized by the Government, and even 

 nominally imprisoned. In November, 1878, 

 however, when the assassination of the King 

 was attempted by Passenante, he hastened to 

 congratulate the King upon his escape, and 

 also conveyed the congratulations of the Pope. 

 The Government then sent the Cardinal his 

 exequatur, and the latter submitted to the Ital- 

 ian ecclesiastical law. 



ASSING, LUDMILLA, a German authoress, born 

 at Hamburg, February 22, 1821 ; died March 25, 

 1880. She was a niece of the celebrated Varn- 

 hagen von Ense, in whose house at Berlin she 

 received, after the death of her parents, an 

 excellent education, and became intimately ac- 

 quainted with Alexander von Humboldt, Prince 

 von Pilckler - Muskau, and other celebrated 

 men. She created a great sensation in the ' 

 political world by the posthumous publication 

 of the diaries of her uncle. An action brought 

 against her at Berlin for traducing the King 

 and Queen resulted in her being sentenced to 

 eight months' imprisonment, and some time 

 later she was again sentenced to two years' im- 

 prisonment. As she had taken up her per- 

 manent residence in Italy, she never actually 

 underwent these punishments. In Italy she 

 became intimately acquainted with Mazzini 

 and other leaders of the Republican party, and 

 published a number of works in the Italian 

 language. She translated Mazzini's works into 

 German, and wrote a number of works and es- 

 says on prominent men and the condition of 

 affairs in Italy. Some of her latest works are : 

 " Ausgenahlte Schriften Von Varnhagen von 



