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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (LISSAGARAY MATHEWS.) 



titles of Archbishop of Rupertsland and Primate 

 of all Canada. In the beginning of 1900 Dr. 

 Lewis resigned his episcopal office. 



Lissagaray, M., a French journalist, born in 

 Auch in 1838; died in Paris, Jan. 25, 1901. He 

 lived for several years in the United States in his 

 early life, returning in 1804 to Paris, where he 

 lectured and wrote for the press and was a Re- 

 publican in politics. He was challenged by Paul 

 de Cassagnac for attacking the empire, and was 

 wounded in a duel. During the Commune he pub- 

 lished the Action newspaper, and when the Com- 

 mune fell he fled to London, where he subsisted 

 miserably by giving lessons and writing letters to 

 newspapers. He wrote a history of the Commune 

 which was printed in Brussels. After the amnesty 

 of 1880 he returned to France and started the 

 Bataille newspaper, in which he inveighed against 

 Gen. Boulanger, leading to a duel with Henri 

 Rochefort. 



MacCormac, Sir William, surgeon, born in 

 Belfast, Ireland, Jan. 17, 1836; died in Bath, Eng- 

 land, Dec. 4, 1901. He was the eldest son of 

 Dr. Henry MacCormac, a practitioner of Belfast 

 and a professor in the Belfast Institute. In 1856 

 he was graduated at the Queen's University of 

 Ireland, and in 1864 became a fellow of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons of Ireland. In the same year 

 he was elected surgeon to the Royal Belfast 

 Hospital. He subsequently became a member of 

 the senate of Queen's University, and received its 

 gold medal. He received honors from the Uni- 

 versity of Dublin. In 1871 he was admitted ad 

 eundem a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 of England. In 1881 he was knighted as a recog- 

 nition of his services in connection with the 

 International Medical Congress. In 1897 he was 

 created a baronet, and appointed surgeon-in-ordi- 

 nary to the then Prince of Wales. In 1898 he 

 received from Queen Victoria the knighthood of 

 the Royal Victorian order in recognition of his 

 services to the Prince of Wales. In 1901 he re- 

 ceived the knighthood of the Bath. He also held 

 many foreign honors. He was president of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons in England five years. 

 He led a life of great activity, participating in 

 the Franco-Prussian War in 1870; in the turko- 

 Servian War of 1876, where he was associated in 

 the Anglo-American ambulance corps with Dr. 

 Marion Sims, of New York ; and in the Boer War 

 in 1899. He was surgeon to St. Thomas's Hos- 

 pital in London for a number of years, and was 

 an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of 

 England, and also for the University of London. 

 His early life abroad had made him an accom- 

 plished linguist. His successful management of 

 the International Medical Congress, which he or- 

 ganized, was largely due to the friendships and 

 knowledge gained during his student years on the 

 Continent. He was a contributor to the medical 

 journals, but left only a few completed volumes. 

 Work Under the Red Cross was abstracted from 

 his diary during the Franco-Prussian War. In 

 1879 he was instrumental in starting a debate 

 regarding the then comparatively new antiseptic 

 surgery. He subsequently combined the addresses 

 and discussions of this congress with a general 

 chapter on the antiseptic theory, and published 

 them in book form. In 1895 he published the 

 first section of an extensive treatise upon Sur- 

 gical Operations. He, however, never finished the 

 remaining sections. He was a very successful 

 teacher and was much beloved by his students. 



McKenzie, Sir John, a New Zealand states- 

 man, born in Ardross, Scotland, in 1838; died in 

 Wellington, Aug. 6, 1901. He emigrated to New 

 Zealand in 1860, took employment in Otago prov- 



ince, became working manager of a station near 

 Palmerston, and afterward carried on farming on 

 his own account in the Shag valley. He was a 

 candidate for the Otago Council in 1868, and in 

 1871 he was elected, and represented Waihemo 

 until the provinces were abolished. He was elect- 

 ed to the New Zealand House of Representatives 

 for Moeraki in 1881, and in later years for other 

 constituencies in his section of the country, never 

 being without a seat. He was appointed Minister 

 of Lands and Immigration in 1891 in the Ballance 

 ministry. 



Maclagan, Christian, a Scottish archeolo- 

 gist, died May 10, 1901, at the age of ninety. 

 She had long been lady associate of the Society of 

 Antiquaries of Scotland. In her opinion, the 

 Druid circles, so called, were the skeleton uprights 

 of prehistoric forts, and in her antiquarian en- 

 thusiasm she had taken rubbings of most of the 

 engraved stones of Scotland. These rubbings have 

 now become extremely valuable, as many of the 

 inscriptions on the stones have since been worn 

 away. Miss Maclagan published The Hill Forts, 

 Stone Circles, and Other Structural Remains of 

 Ancient Scotland (1875); and Chips from Old 

 Stones (1881). 



Macpherson, Hugh Alexander, a Scottish 

 clergyman, born in 1848; died at Pitlochry, Nov. 

 26, 1901. He was educated at Oxford, and was- 

 ordained to the Anglican ministry in 1882. After 

 being successively curate of St. James, Carlisle, 

 1882-'85; St. John's, Upper Holloway; and Holy 

 Trinity, Paddington, he was appointed chaplain, 

 to the Government prison at Carlisle, 1888-'96. 

 From 1896 to 1899 he was vicar of Allonby, Cum- 

 berland, and from 1899 incumbent of Pitlochry. 

 He was a naturalist of note, and besides publish- 

 ing A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland, including 

 Cumberland and Westmoreland, with Lancashire 

 North of the Sands (1892) and A History of 

 Fowling (1897), contributed natural history chap- 

 ters to the volumes of the Fur and Feathers 

 Series viz., The Partridge (1893) ; The Grouse 

 (1894); The Pheasant (1895); The Red Deer 

 (1896). 



Madan, Henry George, an English scientist,, 

 born Sept. 6, 1838; died in Gloucester, Dec. 22, 

 1901. He was educated at Oxford, and for twenty 

 years was head of the science department of Eton 

 College. Subsequently he was junior bursar of 

 Queen's College, Oxford. He was the author of 

 Exercises in Practical Chemistry, with A. G. V. 

 Harcourt; Tables of Qualitative Analysis (1881) ; 

 Wilson's Inorganic Chemistry, revised and en- 

 larged (1883) ; Lessons in Elementary Dynamics- 

 (1886) ; and Elementary Treatise on Heat (1889). 



Manuel, Eugene, a French poet, born in 1823; 

 died in Paris, June 2, 1901. He entered at an 

 early age the Normal School, became professor at 

 Dijon after completing his studies, and afterward 

 at Grenoble and at Jouy. In 1852 he published 

 an edition of the lyrical works of Jean Jacques 

 Rousseau. In 1860 he published a book of poems 

 called Pages Intimes, which by their sinple graca 

 and touching sentiment won their way to the 

 hearts of hosts of readers. Jules Simon called 

 him into the Ministry of Education, in which he 

 remained till his death, rising to be Inspector- 

 General of Education. He published Poemes Pop- 

 ulaires in 1871, and his Henri Regnault, Pigeons 

 de la Republique, Pendant la Guerre, and L' Ab- 

 sent made him the most popular poet in France. 

 For the stage he wrote Les Ouvriers, which is in 

 the repertoire of the Come'die Frangaise. 



Mathews, Sir Lloyd William, a British ad- 

 ministrator, born in 1850; died in Zanzibar, Oct. 

 11, 1901. He entered the British navy at an early 



