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Paley, Frederick Apthorpe, an English commentator, 

 born near Yrk inlSlti; died at Bournemouth. !>'-<. 

 11. l s >8. He was graduated at Cambridge in 



itinued t" reside there till 184<i. when he joined 

 the Roman Catholic Church. In IS'JO, tlie religions 

 disabilities of nonconformists having been partially 

 d. lie returned to Cambridge, and was a tutor 

 there till 1 s74. when lie accepted the chair ot' Classical 

 Literature i:i the Catholic University College at Ken- 

 sington. He edited Homer, Ilesiod. Tbeocrittu 



MCS. and the Greek tra_'ic writers forthe " Bib- 



.! Classica " an 1 other series of classics, prc- 



paied the text oi'tiie Greek tragedies tor the Cam- 



'.mslated JEsehylus. Pindar, and 



f the works of Plato and Aristotle, and wivte 



many papers on archaeology and botany. 



Palgrave, William Gifford,'an English' traveler, born 

 in London, Jan. -J4. 1^2''> : died in Montevideo, Uru- 



fuay, Oct. 1, 1888. He was the son of -Sir Francis 

 'algrave, the historian, and brother of Reginald F. D. 

 Palgrave, clerk of the House of Commons. He left 

 Cambridge University alter a brilliant academic 

 - rve with the army in Bombay, hut re- 

 signed his commission after a short time, and a few 

 vears later entered the Jesuit order, and in due time 

 became a priest. In this eapacitv he was engaged in 

 southern India, in Koine, and in Palestine and Syria. 

 where he acquired such mastery of the Arabic lan- 

 ;iud manners that he was able to pass himself 

 off as a Mohammedan. He was summoned to France 

 in 1860 to iv Iv.nperor Napoleon concern- 



ing the Syrian massacres, and was then commissioned 

 by the French Government to penetmje into central 

 Arabia, where he had many narrow escapes from 

 deatb. An account of his journeyings in the disguise 

 of an Arabian physician he published under the title 

 "Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and 

 Eastern Arabia, 1862-' 63" (London, 1865 >. He was 

 employed in 1865 by the English Government to nego- 

 tiate for the release of prisoners in Abyssinia, after- 

 ward held consulships in various Oriental citi 3 

 consul-general to Bulgaria in 1STS, and thence trans- 

 ferred to Bangkok in 1879. and from 1884 till his 

 death was British minister to Uruguay. His other 

 literary works were " Essays on Fastem Que>tions <? 

 : "Hermann Agna, an Eastern Narrative" 

 (187-2 >: and "Dutch Guiana" (1^76). 



Palizzi, Joseph, Italian artist, born in Lanciano. Italy, 

 in 1813: died ill Paris, Jan. 7. 1888. He studied art 

 in his native city, and in 1844 went to Paris. He was 

 eminent as a landscape painter, and was also success- 

 ful in his representations of animals. His principal 

 works are "Storm in the Abruzzi " (184" : " Shep- 

 herd guarding his Flock" (184 s >: "G"a-.s ravaging 

 the V ); "Cattle in the Valley of the 



Tonque" (1869) ;" Drove of Oxen in a Storm" (l^'>4i : 

 vnir of the Landes" 1,1872) and "In the Vicin- 

 ity of Pipstum" (\ 



'Pene, Henri de, a French journalist, born in Paris. 

 April 25, 1830: died there, Jan. -27. 1883. He came 

 from a noble Beam family possessing a castle near 

 Pau. He was educated at the College Eollin. became 

 a writer for the " Eve'nement " and other papers. In 

 <r a paragraph in the "Figaro" reflecting on 

 the ball-manners ot the military, he was overwhelmed 

 with challenges, which he offered to accept in alpha- 

 betical order. He was wounded severely by his sec- 

 ond adversary, and went to Mannheim for surgical 

 treatment, publishing on his return " Une M 



ague." which had been preceded by a similar 

 volum -ketches. Piquant sketches of 



Parisian life that he wrote for the " Indepenaance 

 Belu'e " were reproduced in book-form under the 

 titles of " Paris Aventureux,'' "Paris Viveir . 



of 



Friends of Order who had organized with the inten- 

 tion of disarming the Commune. He was the editor- 

 in-chief of the " Gaulois" and always an ardent Roy- 



nlist. He wiv.te a life of the Conite de Chambonl 

 under tlie title of "Henri de France." In 1886 he 

 published a novel called "Trop Belle/' and i 

 K--C Miclion." which has been dramatized. 



Planchon, Jules iJmile, French botanist. l>orn in 

 Ganges. France. Mareli -_'l. 1^-j:!: died in Mntpelicr, 

 April -2. Is^s. He W a> educated at M<>ntpelicr. stud- 

 ied botany under AuLruste Saint-Hilaire. ain! r 

 the degree of doctor of sciences in 1M4. To perfect 

 his botanical knowledge, he went t<> England, where 

 until 1840 he was officially connected with the botan- 

 ical garden at Kew. In 1S45-V.1 hc\\:: 

 with the faculty of the Horticultural Institute at 

 Giient, in Belgium. He then received the degree of 

 doctor of medicine, and was professor at the < 'ollege of 

 Medicine and Pharmacv in Nancy until 18-":;, when 

 he became Professor of Botany in the scientific tViculty 

 at Montpclier and also of the Pharmaceutical ( 

 in that place, of which he subsequently became presi- 

 dent. He had charge in 1873 of the scientific mission 

 to America to study the disease that was threatening 

 the extinction of tlie grape-plant. Corroborating his 

 previous observations, he demonstrated that the trou- 

 ble sprang from an insect. I'h>;U.<j.r?ra vastatrix. which 

 he had discovered in 1868, a native of this country, 

 which preyed upon the root. He also found that 

 some varieties of the vine in America were not sub- 

 ject to the attacks of the insect. In addition to many 

 papers in scientific journals, he contributed to th'e 

 "Revue des Deux Mendes, and he published " I,e 

 Phylloxera de 1-54 a 1873" (Paris. 1874 1; "Les 

 Vignes Amerieaines" (1^7.= : " La T ruffe et les Truf- 

 Artiricielles" (Is75); and "L" Eucalyptus Glo- 

 hu-" -1875). 



Poliakoff, S&inuel, a Eussian financier, born in Orscha, 

 Lithuania: died in St. Petersburg in April, l^s. He 

 was the son of poor Jewish parents, was a butcher, 

 then clerk to a wood-seller, learned Russian, went 

 to St. Petersburg in lt>50. and in ten years became 

 very wealthy. Before he died l:e was the owner of 

 five great railroads, constituting a fourth of the entire 

 Russian system. In 1885 he elaborated a plan for 

 consolidating the railroads under the direction of the 

 state, and was sworn a member of the Czar's Privy 

 Council. He founded the first school of railroad en- 

 gineering and the Russian School of Mines, the Alex- 

 ander II College and dormitories for students at the 

 University of St. Petersburg, a lanje hospital at Mos- 

 cow, technical schools for women, and many other 

 institutions. His public benefactions befon. 

 amounted to 6,000,000 rubles. 



Price, Bonamy, an English economist, born in Guern- 

 sey. M : died in London. Jan. 8. 1883. He 

 obtained a double first in classics and mathematics 

 and was graduated at Oxford in 1829, became master 

 of mathematics at Rugby, and was a teacher in that 

 school till 1850, when he removed to London and de- 

 voted his attention to business. In 1808 he was elect- 

 ed Professor of Political Economv at Oxford as the 

 successor of Thorold Rogers, whose theories were 

 condemned by the Conservative majority. He pub- 

 lished a course of lectures on " The Principles of Cur- 

 rency " (18ij{'>: a work entitled " Of Currency and 

 Banki: : and a course of his lecture's en- 

 titled "Chapters on Practical Political Economy" 

 \-ral that preceded it. As a mem- 

 ber of the Duke of Richmond's Royal Commission 

 on Agriculture he appended to the minority report 

 some remarks which called forth Mr. Glads-tone's 

 comment that he alone " had the resolution to apply, 

 in all their unmitigated authority, the principles of 

 abstract political economy to the 'people and circum- 

 stances ot Ireland, exactly as if 1 e I ad been propos- 

 in_' to legislate for the inhabitants of Saturn. 



Prievalsky, Nicholas M., a Russian traveler, born in 

 the district of Sni"lensk in March. 183P : died in Cen- 

 tral Asia between Tashkend and Vernoie in October, 

 1888. He entered the Russian army, and in 1^07 vol- 

 unteered for service in eastern Siberia, when he spent 

 ars in exploring the Ussuri valley, publishing 



