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was appointed geologist and botanist to the 

 North American Boundary Commission charged 

 with the survey of the United States boundary 

 from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky moun- 

 tains. At the end of his labors, lasting two years, 

 he prepared a report, with maps and plates, on 

 the geology and natural resources of the region 

 along the forty-ninth paralled, and in con- 

 nection with this he prepared a report on the 

 tertiary lignite formation, a memoir on the su- 

 perficial deposits of the great interior plains of 

 America, and papers on locust visitations, on the 

 fresh-water sponges of Canada, and on the fluc- 

 tuations of the Great Lakes. In 1875 he was 

 appointed to the staff of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada, of which he became assistant director 

 in 1883 and director in 1895. He explored a great 

 part of British Columbia, and made long trips in 

 the Northwestern Territory, on one of them going 

 by boat 1,300 miles up the Liard and down the 

 Yukon rivers. As one of the Bering Sea Commis- 

 sioners he spent the summer of 1892 in studying 

 seal life, and on his report was based the British 

 case. Besides his official reports he published 

 many papers on geological, geographical, and eth- 

 nological subjects. 



Dickson, Sir James Robert, an Australian 

 statesman, born in Plymouth in 1832; died Jan. 

 9, 1901. He was educated in Glasgow, emigrated 

 to Victoria in 1854, established himself in busi- 

 ness, conducted a mortgage bank in Queensland, 

 engaged in politics, entering the Queensland Par- 

 liament in 1873, in which he represented Enna- 

 gora for some years, was minister in several 

 Cabinets, holding the portfolio of Public Works 

 in 1876, was Treasurer till 1879, and again 

 from 1883 to 1887. He became Premier and 

 Chief Secretary in 1898, and remained for four- 

 teen months at the head of the Government. He 

 was an active participant in the movement for 

 federation, and in 1900 he went to London as 

 Delegate for Queensland to assist in procuring 

 the passage of the Australian federation act by 

 the Imperial Parliament. He received the port- 

 folio of Defense in the first Federal Cabinet. His 

 knighthood dates from 1898. 



Dickson, William Purdie, a Scottish clergy- 

 man, born in Pettinam Manse, Lanarkshire, Oct. 

 22, 1823; died in March, 1901. He was graduated 

 at the University of St. Andrews in 1851, and 

 was minister of Cameron, Fifeshire, in 1851-'63. 

 He was Professor of Biblical Criticism at Glas- 

 gow University in 1863-73, and of Divinity in 

 1873-'95, and had been emeritus professor from 

 1895. He was also curator of the university 

 library in 1866-'97. He published a translation 

 of Mommsen's History of Rome (1862-'67) ; 

 Mommsen's Roman Provinces (1887) ; and St. 

 Paul's Use of the Terms "Flesh and Spirit" 

 (1884). 



Dompierre d'Hornoy, Admiral, a French 

 naval officer, born in 1816; died March 21, 1901. 

 He took part in African campaigns, the bom- 

 bardment of Sebastopol, and in the expedition to 

 Mexico. During the siege of Paris, having the 

 rank of vice-admiral, he was a delegate of the 

 Ministry of Marine, and in 1873 he became min- 

 ister himself in the Broglie Cabinet, and kept the 

 place till May 22, 1874. In 1871 he was elected 

 to the National Assembly from the Somme, and 

 sat with the Legitimist Right. From 1877 to 

 1881 he was a Senator, and from 1885 to 1889 

 a Deputy. 



Drayson, Alfred Wilks, an English soldier 

 and astronomer, born April 17, 1827; died in 

 Portsmouth, England, Sept. 27, 1901. He received 

 his first commission in the English army in 1846, 



and in 1882 he retired, m-civiii- UK- honorary 

 rank of major-general the next year. Dunn;/ thin 

 period he served in Africa,, in'<li;i. and Canada 

 and was for many years Professor oi ,\-,ronomy 

 in the Royal Military Academy at \\ '<,.,) \vich. 

 Some time since lie propounded the theory ol Un- 

 earth having a second rotation, and UK-' reasons 

 for his belief are set forth in a pamphh-'. entitle- 1 

 The History of an Astronomical Discovery ( I'lOl ). 

 He wrote books of adventure, and his books upon 

 military topics have met with general acceptance. 

 He was an enthusiastic naturalist, and, although 

 a keen sportsman, had the greatest dislike to use- 

 less slaughter. His Art of Practical Whist is 

 recognized as a standard work. His published 

 writings include Description of the Patent Elon- 

 gating Tunnel Telegraph Cable, with, C. R. Bin- 

 ney (1858); Sporting Scenes among the Kaffirs 

 of South Africa (1858); Great Britain has been 

 and will be again within the Tropics (1859) ; 

 The Earth we Inhabit: Its Past, Present, and 

 Probable Future (1859); The Common Lights in 

 the Heavens and How to See and Know Them 

 (1862) ; Practical Military Surveying and Sketch- 

 ing (1862); Tales at the Outspan (1862); Ad- 

 ventures of Hans Stork, the South African Hunter 

 and Pioneer (1868; new ed., entitled Among the 

 Zulus, 1879); The Young Dragoon (1870); On 

 the Cause, Date, and Duration of the Last Glacial 

 Epoch of Geology and the Probable Antiquity of 

 Man (1873); The Cause of the Supposed Proper 

 Motion of the Fixed Stars (1874); The Gentle- 

 man Cadet: A Tale (1874) ; The Art of Practical 

 Whist (1879); Experiences of a Woolwich Pro- 

 fessor at the Royal Military Academy (1886) ; 

 The White Chief of the Caffres (1886); From 

 Keeper to Captain (1888); Thirty Thousand 

 Years of the Earth's History (1888); The Dia- 

 mond Hunters of South Africa (1889); Untrod- 

 den Ground in Astronomy and Geology (1890) ; 

 Whist Laws and Whist Decisions (1890); Intel- 

 lectual Whist (1899); The History of an Astro- 

 nomical Discovery (1901). 



Duthiers, Baron Henri de Lacaze, a French 

 naturalist, born in 1821; died in Las Fous, Peri- 

 gord, July 22, 1901. He studied medicine in Paris, 

 became Professor of Zoology at Lille in 1854, was- 

 sent on a scientific mission to the Mediterranean 

 in 1862, and on his return published his book 

 Le Corail, which gave him a world-wide reputa- 

 tion. He was appointed Professor of Natural 

 History at the Museum in Paris in 1865, and ob- 

 tained a chair at the- Sorbonne in 1868. In 1871 

 he succeeded M. Longet at the Academy of 

 'Sciences. He was instrumental in founding ma- 

 rine laboratories at Roscoff and Banyuls. 



Elliot, Sir George, an English naval officer,, 

 born in 1813; died in London, Dec. 13, 1901. He 

 was the eldest son of Admiral Sir George Elliot, 

 and entered the navy in 1827. In 1834 he was- 

 promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and he rose 

 through successive promotions to be rear-admiral 

 in 1858, vice-admiral in 1865, and admiral in 

 1870. From 1874 to 1877 he was commander-in- 

 chief at Portsmouth, receiving the order of 

 K. C. B. in 1877, and retiring from the service in 

 the following year. In 1885 Admiral Elliot pub- 

 lished a valuable Treatise on Future Naval Bat- 

 tles, and How to Fight Them. 



Ellis, Mrs. Annie (Baine), an English au- 

 thor, born in Durham, England, in 1828; died 

 Sept. 2, 1901. She was the daughter of James. 

 Raine, of Durham, a noted antiquary, and an 

 elder sister of Canon Raine, of York, and of 

 Mrs. Alfred Hunt, the novelist. She received a 

 good classical education and passed much of her 

 life in an antiquarian atmosphere. Beside edit- 



