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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (MOEEAU DE TOURS NORDENSKIOLD.) 



porary Artists (1899) ; and the following volumes 

 of verse: A Dream of Idleness (1865); Corn and 

 Poppies (1890); The Christ upon the Hill (1895). 

 He will be best remembered for his services to art. 



Moreau de Tours, Georges, a French painter, 

 born in Ivry, in 1848; died in Bois le Roi, Jan. 

 17, 1901. He was a pupil of Marquerie and Ca- 

 banel in the lcole des Beaux Arts, became a 

 member of the Society of French Artists, and 

 obtained his second medal in 1879. The majority 

 of his works have been purchased by the French 

 Government, among them Le Drapeau, in the 

 Elysee, and the Death of Vaneau, in the Ecole 

 Polytechnique. Some of his best-known canvases 

 are L'Extatique, Death of Pichegru, Departure of 

 the Conscript, Le Cabaret, and Evocation. 



Morris, Michael, Baron of Killanin, an Irish 

 jurist, born in Galway, Nov. 14, 1827; died there, 

 Sept. 8, 1901. He was descended from an ancient 

 Irish family, was educated in Trinity College, 

 Dublin, graduating with honor in 1847, called to 

 the bar in 1849, made a Queen's counsel in 1863, 

 elected to Parliament as a Conservative in 1865, 

 appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland by Lord 

 Derby in 1866, becoming Attorney-General a few 

 months later, and made a puisne judge in 1867, 

 Chief Justice of Common Pleas in 1876* and Lord 

 Chief Justice of Ireland in 1887. He was created 

 a baronet in 1885, and received a hereditary 

 peerage on retiring from the bench in 1900. His 

 advancement was due to his being a Catholic 

 and to his popularity in Galway, to which his 

 genial humor and ready wit contributed, rather 

 than to his political or his legal ability. 



Myers, Frederic William Henry, an English 

 author, born in Duffield, Derbyshire, Feb. 6, 

 1843; died in Rome, Italy, Jan. 17, 1901. He was 

 the son of the Rev. Frederic Myers, a writer of 

 note, and received his education at Cambridge. 

 He was classical lecturer at Trinity in 1.865-'69, 

 and held the post of school inspector from 1872 

 until his death. He was one of the founders in 

 1882 of the Society for Physical Research, which 

 aimed to collect evidence and to carry on systemat- 

 ic experiments in hypnotism, thought transference, 

 and clairvoyance, and he contributed a long se- 

 ries of papers on the Subliminal Self to the Pro- 

 ceedings of the society. At the time of his death 

 he was president of the society and had been 

 its honorary secretary for a long period. His 

 writings in book form include Saint Paul, a poem 

 (1867); Poems (1870); Wordsworth, in English 

 Men of Letters Series (1880); The Renewal of 

 Youth and Other Poems (1882) ; Essays Classical 

 (1883); Essays Modern (1883); Science and a 

 Future Life (1893); Human Personality and its 

 Survival of Bodily Death (1901). With E. Gur- 

 ney and F. Podmore he published Phantasms of 

 the Living, in 1886. Myers's essays display much 

 literary strength as well as a finished style, and 

 he is worthy of remembrance as a poet also. 



Nordenskiold, Baron Adolf Erik, explorer 

 and cartographer, born in Helsingfors, Finland, 

 Nov. 18, 1832; died Aug. 12, 1901. His ancestors 

 came originally from Sweden, several of them 

 being noted for their scientific work. His father, 

 Nils Gustav, was an accomplished mineralogist, 

 and in 1824 became head of the Mining Office in 

 Finland. His early education was conducted by 

 private tuition. He was then sent to a gym- 

 nasium, to prepare for the university, where, in 

 the rector's words, he distinguished himself " only 

 by absolute idleness." He, however, entered the 

 University of Helsingfors in 1849, where he gave 

 special attention to chemical and mineralogical 

 work. He spent his vacations in geological ex- 

 cursions, and in 1853 visited the Ural mountains 



with his father. He had obtained salaried ap- 

 pointments at both the University and the Min- 

 ing Office; but he aroused the suspicion of the 

 Russian authorities, and these were suddenly 

 withdrawn. He now went to Berlin and worked 

 in Rose's labora- 

 tory at mineral 

 analysis. Next 

 year he returned 

 to Finland and ob- 

 tained the Alex- 

 ander traveling 

 stipend of the 

 Helsingfors Uni- 

 versity. At a uni- 

 versity meeting 

 where he was to 

 have received his 

 doctor's degree be- 

 fore setting out 

 on his travels he 

 again incurred the 

 suspicion of the 

 Russian officials, 

 and was forced to 

 leave the country. 

 He settled in Stock- 

 holm in the winter of 1857-'58, and although the 

 prohibition to visit Finland was eventually with- 

 drawn he continued to live in Sweden. In the 

 spring of 1858 he accompanied the first expedition 

 of the Swedish geologist, Otto Torell, to Spitz- 

 bergen, which proved very successful, and re- 

 turned with much important scientific material. 

 At Bell Sound, Nordenskiold discovered the re- 

 mains of several tertiary plants, whose study led 

 to important new conclusions regarding the early 

 climatic conditions of the region. Upon the re- 

 turn of the expedition Nordenskiold was made 

 professor and curator of the mineralogical de- 

 partment of the Swedish Riks-museum. In 1861 

 he accompanied Torell's second Spitzbergen expe- 

 dition, which also brought back material of great 

 scientific importance. In 1864, at the request of 

 the Swedish Academy, he took command of an 

 expedition for testing the practicability of the 

 measurement of an arc of the meridian, as sug- 

 gested by the president of the Royal Society of 

 London. Much valuable botanical and zoological 

 material was obtained during this voyage; but, 

 although an attempt was made to reach a high 

 northern latitude, it was not successful. In 1867 

 the iron steamer Sofia was placed at Norden- 

 skiold's disposal, and in her he subsequently at- 

 tained a latitude of 81 42' N., the most north- 

 erly point that at that time had been reached 

 in the eastern hemisphere. In 1870 he was able, 

 through the munificence of Osqar Dickson, to be- 

 gin the organization of a large expedition to 

 Greenland. He set out during this year on a 

 preliminary exploration. The" vast inland ice- 

 sheet of Greenland was for the first time trodden 

 by a scientific observer; and its scanty vegeta- 

 tion of algae was described by Dr. Berggren. The 

 second and main expedition did not start until 

 1872. It was unexpectedly caught in the ice, 

 with several walrus sloops, and its store of pro- 

 visions was used up in feeding their inmates. In 

 1875 Mr. Dickson furnished the money for an 

 expedition up the Yenesei river to Yeneisisk. 

 This and several subsequent expeditions to neigh- 

 boring regions finally led to the inauguration of 

 the most important geographical work with 

 which Nordenskiold's name is connected the 

 voyage of the Vega, which accomplished the 

 northeast passage. The Vega left Karlskrona on 

 June 22, 1878, doubled the most northerly point 



