RENNIE, GEORGE 0. E. 



oasion of the General Synod. The preceding 



' -nl Synod hud requested the general classes 

 ion i Hi tin- omission of the word 

 nan" in tin- ollicial name of the church, 

 whidi the General Synod defined to 



.! importance to the interests of the 

 church. It appears that a number of classes 

 :,si the omission, under tin- impivs- 



hat it would endanger the title of the 

 church to its property, and that thus the consti- 

 tutional number of classes necessary for adoption 

 did not vote for the change. The present Gen- 

 eral Synod, believing that the fear of danger to 



iiuivh property involved in the change 



entirely groundless, again resolved to re- 

 quest the classes to take action on the omission 

 of the word German. The new liturgy, which 



:<>r many years been a cause of consider- 

 able di>cord, as it is regarded by its op- 

 ponents as being pervaded by a high-church 

 spirit, came up again for discussion. The 

 Western committee not being able to submit 

 their work, and asking for further time to com- 

 plete it, the majority of the committee of the 

 General Synod on " liturgy " recommended 

 that the final action on the liturgy be post- 

 poned, and that the Western committee be al- 

 lowed to go forward with their work as pro- 

 posed, and that the revised liturgy, as pre- 



d by the Eastern Synod, be in the mean 

 time allowed for the use of the churches and 

 families under the jurisdiction of the synod. A 

 report from the minority of the committee was 

 presented, in which, for a series of reasons 

 given, viz , that the revised liturgy, in the 

 judgment of the minority, is not adapted to the 

 wants of the church, and is not in harmony 

 with the spirit and standards of the church and 

 involves a revolution of the established order of 

 worship, they recommend that the revised lit- 

 urgy ot the Eastern Synod, together with the 

 work of the Western committee, as far as pros- 

 ecuted, be placed in the hands of a new com- 

 mittee, with instructions to prepare, from this 

 material, and such other sources as may bo ac- 



!e, a liturgy adapted to the want of the 

 church, and in full harmony with its standards, 

 genius, and order of worship, and lay the re- 

 sult of their labors before the synod at its next 

 triennial session. After a long and animated 

 discussion the resolution was adopted, by a vote 

 of sixtv-four yeas against fifty-seven nays. 



RENNIE, GEOBOR, C. E., F. R. S., an emi- 

 nent engineer and writer on engineering topics, 

 born in Surrey, in 1791 ; died in London, March 

 80, 1806. He was a son of John Rennie, C. E., 

 F. R. S., etc. ; was educated at the classical 

 schools of Tsle worth, and St. Paul, London, and 

 in 1807 accompanied his father in his ami mil 

 tour through England, Ireland, and Scotland. 

 On his return to Edinburgh he was enter, d a 

 student in the University, giving his attention 

 to classical and mathematical studies and chem- 

 istry, and was two years under the tuition of 

 Professor John Play fair. In 1811 he returned 

 to London and engaged in practical engineering. 



KHIGOLENE. 669 



In 1818 ho waa appointed Inspector of Ma- 

 chinery and Clerk of the Dies in the 1 

 Mint, which post he held nearly eight years, 

 acquiring during that time an intimate knowl- 

 edge of the art of coining, and especially of the 

 machinery necessary. Subsequently, upon the 

 death of his father in 1821, ho entered into 

 partnership with his brother in civil engineer- 

 ing, furnishing machinery for the mints of 

 Mexico, Peru, Lisbon, London, Calcutta, Bom- 

 bay, etc. They furnished, also, machinery of 

 various kinds for the Russian Government, con- 

 structed marine engines for the Peninsular, Ori- 

 ental, Sardinian, Transatlantic, and other com- 

 panies, planned bridges, and surveyed railroads, 

 besides executing many other works in Great 

 Britain and Ireland. The brothers Rennie were 

 the first to introduce screw propellers into the 

 British navy in 1840. They also laid out the 

 line of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 

 and carried it across Chat Moss at a cost of 

 57,000 less than the estimates. In 1822 Mr. 

 Rennie was made a Fellow of the Royal Soci- 

 ety, which he served in the offices of treasurer 

 and vice-president for three years, and was 

 subsequently elected a member of other impor- 

 tant societies. He was the author of several 

 scientific papers in the "Transactions" of the 

 Royal Society, and of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, such as " On 

 the Strength of Materials," " On Hydraulics," 

 "On the Expansion of Arches of Stone and 

 Iron," and on bridges, water-wheels, dredging, 

 and mechanics. He was also the author of 

 many miscellaneous reports on civil engineer- 

 ing topics. 



REUSS, the name of two German principal- 

 ities. I. REUSS-GREIZ. Prince, Henry XXII., 

 born March 28, 1854; succeeded his father, 

 November 8, 1859. Area, 148 square miles; 

 population, in 1864, 43,924. II. REUSS-SCHLEIZ. 

 Prince, Henry LXV1L, born October 20, 1789 ; 

 succeeded his brother, June 19, 1854. Area, 

 21)7 square miles ; population, in 1864, 86,472. 

 During the German-Italian war Reuss-Greiz 

 sided with Austria, and Renss-Schleiz with 

 Prussia. After the war both joined the North 

 German Confederation. 



R 1 1 1 ( I ( ) L K N E. Dr. Henry J. Bigelow, of 

 Boston, gives a description of a petroleum- 

 naphtha (for which he proposes the name of 

 Rhigolene), boiling at seventy degrees F., nud 

 possessing the property of causing an intense 

 degree of cold by the rapidity of its evapora- 

 tion. It is a hydro-carbon destitute of oxygen ; 

 is the lightest of all known liquids, having a 

 specific gravity of 0.625, and is supposed to be 

 a combination of some of the known products 

 of petroleum with those volatile and gaseous 

 ones not yet fully examined. Several of the.-o 

 combinations are already known in trade as 

 benzolene, kerosene, kerosolene, gasolene, all 

 naphthas, but varying with different manufac- 

 turers. Kerosolene, the boiling-point of which 

 is about ninety degrees, has been found to be 

 an efficient anaesthetic by inhalation. The dis- 



