BOPF, H:AN T Z. 



, \peets great, .".''vantages from the 

 ''iliviati Government 

 i,-!l company coMd-mili:-' ' 



\ correspondent I'nun Cohija, 



: l'.i.livi:i, to the French Moni- 



-ays: ' Th \ the guano at 



which ha- been granted to ;i French 



dim-ted by M. Armand, will pro- 



Ipts lor tho treasury here, 



r tho good relations between 



ami 15oli\i:i. Tlie company has under- 



aininally 40,000 tons, which 



will pay a duty to the common profit of Bo- 



Ihia and Chili of iT> francs per ton. The last 



.itious have established the fact that the 



of Mejillones contains more than ten 

 million of tons of excellent guano, which has 



i to lie Chipped, and which will soon fur- 

 nish its contingent to French agriculture. 

 The iv is a question of exporting it under tho 

 form of large hardened bricks, which would 

 enable t lie freight to be reduced." In December, 



there was some slight misunderstanding 

 between the Bolivian Government and the con- 

 tractor Armand; and the French frigate Beli- 



immediately went to Cobija, to keep the 

 Bolivians in order. French ships-of-war were 

 continually visiting this port since the dis- 



of the guano, but not without exciting 

 - : derable comment. 



IK >IT, FI;A\/C, the founder of the science of 

 Comparative Philology, and Professor of Orien- 

 iterature and General Philology in the 

 ('Diversity of Berlin since 1821, born at Mainz, 

 nber 14, 1791; died in Berlin, Prussia,' 

 :. 186T. After completing his uni- 

 versity course, he resolved to devote himself to 

 the study of the Oriental languages and litera- 

 ture, and for the purpose of acquiring a more 

 thorough mastery of them, went to Paris in 

 where he remained for about five years, 

 uting his Oriental studies with Chezy, 

 . and August Wilhelm Schegel, 

 and subsequently visited London to continue 

 his investigations there. During this period he 

 was partly supported by a small pension from 

 the King of Bavaria. Returning to Germany, 

 he spent some time at Gottingen, and in 1821 

 was appointed to the professorship of Oriental 

 Literature and General Philology in the Uni- 

 y of Berlin. His earliest publications 

 rrammatical works and glossaries of the 

 it language, and editions of Sanscrit 

 is, in the original, with translations. lie 

 did much to facilitate the study of Sanscrit in 

 Europe, but his most important labors were di- 

 i to an analysis of the grammatical forms 

 and origin of the Indo-Germanic languages, and 

 format ion of a new science of Compara- 

 tive Philology, which has proved so valuable 

 and important in its relations to ethnological 

 nations within tho past few years. Car- 

 dinal Mai and Itev. Mr. Malan spoke and under- 

 more languages than he; "\Vilhelmvon 

 Humboldt, Hammer, and Edward Roth, were 

 probably thoroughly familiar with the structure 



BRADFOIM), ALEXANDER W. 91 



of as many as Ilerr IJopp; but it was his 

 merit that he, before any other phi),, 



1 the origin of the ditierent fun, 

 guages hack to theircommon source. ai.d -: 

 by their ^pirit and grammatical construction, 

 as well as by individual words, how they 

 related to each other, and how they oripinat.il. 

 His great work on this subject is his 

 parative Grammar of the Sanscrit, Zend, 

 Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavonic-, Gothic, 

 and German," in five volumes, first published 

 in 1833, but revised and almost wholly recast 

 in 1856 or 1857. This was followed by some 

 treatises on the Celtic, Malay, the ancient Prus- 

 sian, Albanian, and other languages. The first 

 edition of his "Comparative Grammar' 

 translated into English by Lieutenant Eastwick, 

 and edited by Professor Wilson Boden, in three 

 volumes (1845-1850). The second edition has 

 not, wo believe, been translated into English. 

 Professor Bopp was, in 1842, made a knight of 

 the new French Ordre du Merit, in testimony 

 of his great services to philological science, and 

 in 1857 elected foreign associate of the French 

 Institute. In 1862 his friends made a magnifi- 

 cent festival in honor of the fiftieth anniversary 

 of his receiving his doctor's degree, and at the 

 same time initiated a Bopp fund for aiding in the 

 prosecution of studies in comparative philology. 

 BRADFORD, ALEXANDER WARFIELD, LL. D., 

 an eminent New York jurist, and for several 

 years Surrogate of tho City and County of New 

 York, born at Albany in 1815 ; died in New 

 York City, November 5, 1867. He was the son 

 of Rev. John M. Bradford, Jr., D. D., of Albany, 

 and received his collegiate education at Colum- 

 bia College. After graduating he devoted his 

 whole energies to the study of the law, and soon 

 achieved a high reputation for extensive and 

 accurate knowledge of the civil law, to which 

 he had mainly turned his attention. In 1848 

 he entered upon political life, and was elected 

 Surrogate, and his administration gave so much 

 satisfaction that he was twice ree'lected to the 

 same office. He was connected, during his 

 professional career, either as judge or advocate, 

 with nearly all the prominent cases in his de- 

 partment which came before the courts, among 

 them the Parish will, the Seguine will, the Bur- 

 dell-Cunningham trial, and the Gardiner and 

 Tyler will, which involved the property of 

 the mother-in-law of ex-President Tyler. He 

 found time to prepare ten volumes of legal 

 reports, viz. : four volumes of "Reports 

 of Surrogates' Cases;" six of " Bradford's 

 Reports," tho latter of which soon bi- 

 standard authority in the American, English. 

 and French courts. He also edited a work on 

 "American Antiquities," and, in conjunction 

 with the late Dr. Anthon, he likewise edited 

 The Protestant ChurcJiman. Latterly ho was 

 a member of the Law Committee of Columbia 

 College, and one of the omm ; ! esig- 



nated by the Legislature to codify the laws of 

 the State. His reputation, both personal and 

 professional, was unblemished. 



