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eian Empire," aud "The Ichthyolites of the 

 Devonian Rocks of Russia." He had also anoth- 

 er work in preparation, upon the fossils of the 

 same empire, at the time of his death. 



Sept. . AnN, Dr. FEANZ, an eminent lin- 

 guistic author and teacher, died in Rhenish 

 Prussia, where he had long been head teacher 

 of the gymnasium. He was the inventor of a 

 new system of teaching foreign living languages, 

 and many of his works have been translated and 

 used in this country. 



Sept. . MEZA, DE, General, Danish Com- 

 mander-in-chief in the late war with Austria 

 and Prussia, died at Copenhagen, aged 72 years. 

 He entered the army in 1807 and served in the 

 defence of Copenhagen. On the restoration of 

 peace his mathematical knowledge procured 

 him a post in the school of artillery, which he 

 held for upwards of thirty years. In the war 

 of 1848 he again took the field and distinguished 

 himself by his daring enterprise. At the con- 

 clusion of the war he was named Inspector 

 Royal of Artillery, and in 1853 received the 

 command of the forces in Schleswig, Jutland, and 

 Funen. On the breaking out of the recent war 

 he was charged with the defence of the Danne- 

 werke, but his means being inadequate, after a 

 stout resistance he withdrew his troops ; and 

 although by so doing he doubtless saved the 

 whole Danish army from capture, he was re- 

 lieved of his command, and passed the remainder 

 of his life in retirement. 



Sept. . MIGLIAZINI, Prof. MICHEL ANGELO, 

 Keeper of Ancient Monuments in the Royal 

 Galleries at Florence, Italy, died there, aged 

 86 years. His labors in archaeology have made 

 his name familiar to antiquarians throughout 

 Europe. 



Sept. 30. HEIM, M., the celebrated painter 

 of the "Massacre of the Jews," died in Paris, 

 aged 78 years. 



Oct. 11. HODGSON, CHRISTOPHER PEMBER- 

 TON, author of several Oriental works, and late 

 English consul to Hakodadi, Japan, died at Pau, 

 Pyrenees, aged 44 years. Among his published 

 works are " Reminiscences of Australia " (1846) ; 

 " El Ydaiour ; a Book of Eastern Travel " (1849) ; 

 " History of the Viscounts of Beam " (1855) ; an 

 " Residence at Nagasaki and Hakodadi in 1859 - 

 '60." 



Oct. 16. BUKDER, WILLIAM CORBETT, a well- 

 known meteorologist and astronomer, died at 

 Clifton, aged 43 years. He was the discoverer 

 of the comet of March 1854, and also of the 

 large comet of June, 1861. 



Oct.lQ. DRUMMOND, Rev. WILLIAM HAMILTON, 

 D. D., a scholar, poet, and divine, died at Dub- 

 lin, aged 87 years. He was the author of poems 

 on the "Battle of Trafalgar," the "Giants' 

 Causeway," etc., and prepared also a " Transla- 

 tion of Lucretius." 



Oct. 24. BOSSANGE, MARTIN, the oldest book- 

 seller and publisher in Europe, died in Paris, 

 France, aged 100 years. He was the founder 

 of the firm of M. Bossange, afterwards Hector 

 Bossange, Paris, and now Gustavo Bossange 



& Co., having branch houses in London, Odessa, 

 Naples, Montreal, New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, 

 New York, and other places. 



Oct. 24. NEWNHAM, WILLIAM, an eminent 

 English physician and medical author, died at 

 Tunbridge Wells, aged 75 years. He was a 

 native of Farnham, a skilful medical practitioner 

 and author of several important works, among 

 which are "A Tribute to Sympathy" (1817), 

 which passed through eleven or twelve editions ; 

 " The Principles of Physical, Intellectual, Moral, 

 and Religious Education" (1828); "The Re- 

 ciprocal Influence of Mind and Body Consider- 

 ed;" and an "Essay on the Disorders Incident 

 to Literary Men." 



Oct. . MALGAIGNE, Dr. JOSEPH FBANC.OIS, 

 an eminent French surgeon, anatomist, and 

 medical author, died in Paris, aged 60 years. 

 He was a native of Charmes-sur-Moselle, grad- 

 uated at the medical school in 1831, and al- 

 though enjoying an extensive practice, was the 

 author of a large number of valuable works, 

 among which are his "Manual of Operative 

 Medicine" (1834), translated into several lan- 

 guages; "Treatise of Surgical Anatomy and 

 Experimental Surgery" (1838); and an anno- 

 tated edition of the complete works of Ambrose 

 Pare. 



NOV. 3. FONBLANQTTE, JOHN SAMUEL MARTIN, 



Commissioner of Bankruptcy, and a distin- 

 guished jurist and legal writer, died at Brighton, 

 England, aged 78 years. While pursuing his 

 studies at Caius College, Cambridge, he burst a 

 blood-vessel on the lungs, and a change of cli- 

 mate being advised by his physicians, he ob- 

 tained a commission in the army. He served 

 at Cadiz, Gibraltar, in Sicily, and the Greek 

 Islands, and in Italy, where he received the ap- 

 pointment of Deputy Judge Advocate General. 

 Thence he came to America and served in the 

 war of 1812, during which he was taken pris- 

 oner by our forces. la 1816 he was called to 

 the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and soon after was 

 appointed one of the Commissioners of Bank- 

 ruptcy. In 1826 Fonblanque, in connection 

 with others, started " The Jurist," a quarterly 

 journal of jurisprudence and legislation. " His . 

 Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence" was pub- 

 lished in 1823. . 



Nov. 15. CHAPMAN, MATTHEW JAMES, M. D., 

 a classical scholar and poet, died in London, 

 aged 69 years. He took the degree of M. D. at 

 Edinburgh in 1820, and graduated at Triuity 

 College, Cambridge, in 1832. He was the au- 

 thor of "Barbadoes and Other Poems " (1833), 

 " Jephtha's Daughter " (1834), and a translation 

 of "Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus" (1836). 



Dec. 1. QUERARD, JOSEPH MARIE, the most 

 industrious and laborious bibliographer of the 

 present or perhaps any other age, died at Paris. 

 France, aged 68 years. He was born at Rennes, 

 in Brittany, and had devoted more than half 

 a century to the exclusive study of French 

 literature, and the production of bibliographical 

 works, but his labors had never produced a 

 lucrative return, and he was indebted to the 



