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tion of colors. His first experiments result- 

 ed in a proposal to the Minister of War, who 

 was about to change the color of a part of the 

 uniform of thirteen cavalry regiments, and the 

 adoption of which actually effected a saving of 

 four thousand pounds, for which the discov- 

 erer received twenty pounds! Subsequently 

 he obtained a military appointment, which left 

 him leisure for pursuing scientific investiga- 

 tions, and he was advanced to the grade of 

 chef d'escadron in 1844. In 1849 he was 

 decorated with the cross of the Legion of Hon- 

 or, and received the prize of eighty pounds from 

 the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. 

 In 1847 he made the first attempt at photog- 

 raphy on glass. He was the author of a series 

 of papers addressed to the Academy of Sci- 

 ence, on" Considerations of Color," the "Ac- 

 tion of Vapors," " Photography on Glass," 

 "Heliochromy," and " Heliographic Engrav- 

 ing on Steel and Glass." In 1855 his principal 

 works were collected, under the title "Ee- 

 cherches Photographiques." To his uncle, M. 

 Nicephora Niepce, and to M. Daguerre, the 

 public are indebted for obtaining pictorial rep- 

 resentations by means of solar light. M. 

 Niepce-de-Saint- Victor obtained the Tremont 

 prize from the Academy of Sciences in 1861- 

 '62-'63. 



May 11. DILL, Eev. SAMUEL MARCUS, D. D., 

 a Presbyterian clergyman, and Professor of 

 Theology in Magee College, Londonderry; 

 died there suddenly. He was appointed a dele- 

 gate from the Irish Presbyterian Church to the 

 General Assembly about to convene here, but 

 died just previous to the sailing of the steam- 

 ship in which his passage was engaged. He 

 had visited this country in 1859. 



May 15. HARRO-HAREING, PAUL, a Danish 

 political exile, painter, poet, and novelist; com- 

 mitted suicide in the Isle of Jersey, aged 71 

 years. He had been concerned in revolution- 

 ary movements in Greece, in Poland, in Ger- 

 many, and in Switzerland, had been banished 

 from several countries, and repeatedly impris- 

 oned. Once he made his escape from captivity 

 by leaping from a vessel into the sea. The in- 

 tervals of his revolutionary career had been 

 filled up by assiduous devotion to painting, by 

 the composition of numerous volumes of poetry, 

 dramas, and novels, by editorial experiences 

 of a revolutionary character, and by historical, 

 biographical, and descriptive works. In 1854 

 he was released from prison in Hamburg at the 

 intercession of the United States consul. He 

 maintained himself for some time in Brazil as 

 an artist, and afterward for two or three 

 years resided in the United States, where he 

 attracted some attention both from his perse- 

 cutions as a revolutionist and his impassioned 

 denunciations of the European governments. 

 Of late years he labored under the delusion 

 that he was the special object of the hatred of 

 the Russian Government,, whose spies he fan- 

 cied to be perpetually about him, and he gave 

 great trouble to the English police by his con- 



stant applications for protection from imagina- 

 ry foes. For a long time he had been supported 

 on the charity of Mazzini and other private 

 friends. 



May 19. HILL, DAVID OCTAVIUS, E. S. A., 

 an eminent Scotch painter of landscapes ; died 

 in London, aged 68 years. He was born in 

 1802, at Perth, Scotland. Having early mani- 

 fested a taste for art, his father sent him to 

 Edinburgh for instruction, where, in 1823, he 

 exhibited three pictures of Scotch scenery 

 which gave proofs of fine artistic skill. He 

 executed a series of sixty pictures illustrative 

 of "The Land of Burns," a work which he. 

 projected. Among his chief English subjects 

 are " Windsor Castle ^Summer Evening," 

 " Kenilworth," "Warwick," "Durham," and 

 "Fotheringay." Among his Scottish pictures, 

 "Old and New Edinburgh from the Castle," 

 "Valley of the Nith," "The Ballachmyle Via- 

 duct," "The River Tay from the Bridge at 

 Perth ; " and of Irish scenery, " Kenmare 

 Bridge," in the collection of the Marquis of 

 Lansdowne, is a favorable specimen. In 1830, 

 Mr. Hill was appointed secretary of the new 

 Eoyal Scottish Academy of Painting. He was 

 the first to suggest the formation and to aid 

 in devising the constitution of the Eoyal As- 

 sociation for the promotion of the Fine Arts 

 in Scotland, the parent of numerous other art- 

 unions in London, Dublin, Glasgow, and else- 

 where. Under Mr. Hill's directions, photog- 

 raphy was greatly benefited, and its artistic 

 capabilities more fully developed soon after 

 the discovery of the process in 1843. In 1850 

 he was appointed by her Majesty one of the 

 commissioners of the Board of Manufacturers 

 in Scotland, a body which has under its direc- 

 tion the Government School of Art and the 

 National Gallery of Scotland. 



May . CABARRAS, EDWARD DE, M. D., a 

 celebrated homeopathic physician; died in 

 Paris. He was the son of the well-known 

 Madame Tallien. He was one of the most 

 celebrated advocates of Hahnemann's system, 

 and made a specialty of the treatment of dis- 

 eases of the throat and larynx. He was the 

 physician and friend of all the distinguished 

 singers and actors, from whom he never ac- 

 cepted fees. Of Paris, thoroughly Parisian, he 

 was known and loved in that characteristically 

 Parisian clique represented by Eoqueplan and 

 Gambetta. Emile de Girardin, in announcing 

 his death, bestowed upon him the tenderest 

 and most eloquent eulogies. 



May . MACKINNON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, 

 a member of Parliament and author ; died in 

 Scotland, aged 81 years. He was born in 

 1789, and was the head of the clan Mackinnon 

 in the western part of Scotland. He had been 

 forty years a member of tie House of Com- 

 mons, and had published a work on " Public 

 Opinion," also "Thoughts on the Currency 

 Question," and the "History of Civilization." 



May .PARKER, JOHN HENRY, F. A. S., an 

 eminent English publisher, antiquary, and an- 



