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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



lation of the Venetian Calendar. He was en- 

 gaged upon the second volume of this work at 

 the time of his death.* 



March 18. WIFFEX, BENJAMIN BARROW, an 

 eminent scholar in Spanish literature, died at 

 "Wobnrn, England, aged 72 years. He was in- 

 strumental in the reprinting of some twenty 

 works of the early Spanish reformers; two of 

 which, the " Eplstola Consol-itoria" of Juan 

 Perez, and the " Alfabeto Cristiano " of Juan 

 Valdes, were edited by him. The latter work 

 owed its discovery to him, having been un- 

 known, even to bibliographers, for the last 

 three centuries, until brought to light and 

 translated by him in the year 1861. He wrote 

 a " Life of Valdes," and had contributed exten- 

 sively to the leading periodicals of his time. 



March 25. FLITTORF, M., a distinguished 

 French architect, and writer on architectural 

 subject*, died in Paris. He was a native of 

 Cologne, and born in 1792. He constructed 

 many buildings in Paris, including the church 

 of St. Vincent de Paul, Theatre Ambigu Co-' 

 mique, embellished the Champs Elysees, and 

 Place de la Concorde. His knowledge of clas- 

 sic antiquity and his various important publica- 

 tions, especially that on the art of polychromy 

 as applied to monumental art, placed him in 

 the highest rank among the writers on his art. 



March 27. SELBY, PRIDEAUX J'OHX, an emi- 

 nent English naturalist and author, died at his 

 residence in Northumberland. II>">. was born in 

 1789, and was educated at the Grammar School 

 of Durham, and University College, Oxford. A 

 portion of his college vacations were spent in 

 long walking expeditions through the wildest 

 parts of Scotland, with a view of collecting 

 specimens of sea and land birds in their respec- 

 tive natural haunts. He also mado a tour in 

 Holland, and his passion for the pursuit of all 

 branches of natural history brought him fre- 

 quently in contact with various eminent con- 

 temporaries, such as Audubon, Landseer, Bab- 

 ington, Murchison, Strickland, Gould, and many 

 others. He was the author of a valuable work, 

 in two volumes, upon British birds, illustrated 

 by colored folio plates, also a work of superior 

 merit on British forest-trees, and was joint 

 editor with Sir William Jardine of three vol- 

 umes of " Illustrations of Ornithology." He 

 was honorably connected witli several scientific 

 bodies both in England and Scotland. 



March . BOUDIIT, M., an eminent anthro- 

 pologist and statistician, died 1 in Paris. He was 

 the author of an excellent work on medical 

 geography, and numerous papers on medical 

 and scientific statistics. 



March . CALDERON, Seflor SERAFIN ESTE- 

 BAN, a Spanish writer and biographer, died at 

 Madrid. He was a man of thorough attain- 

 ments in Spanish literature, and was the author 

 of several valuable works over the signature of 

 " El Solitario." 



April 6. ROCHESTER, Rt. Rev. JOSEPH COT- 

 TOW WIGRAM, D. D., Lord Bishop of, died in 

 London. He was born at Walthamstow, De- 



cember 26, 3798, graduated at Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, in 1819, was ordained priest in 

 1823, and in 1827 was _ appointed . assistant 

 preacher.; at St. James's, Westminster, and, the 

 same year, secretary of the National Society 

 for Promoting the Education of the Poor in 

 the Principles of the Established Church, a 

 post which he occupied until 1839. He was 

 Rector of East Tisted, Hampshire, from 1839 to 

 1850; Archdeacon of Winchester, Rector of St. 

 Mary's, Southampton, and Canon of Winchester 

 Cathedral, from 1850 to 1860, when he was 

 elevated to the See of Rochester. He was the 

 author of various pamphlets, sermons, and 

 charges, as archdeacon. 



April 12. BELL, ROBERT, an English writer, 

 die/d in London. He was born at Cork, Jan- 

 uary 10, 1800, studied at Dublin, and early be- 

 came a contributor to the Dublin Inquisitor, a 

 magazine which he was instrumental in found- 

 ing. When very young, he obtained an ap- 

 pointment in a government department in 

 Dublin, and was for a time editor of the gov- 

 ernment journal, The Patriot. In 1828 he re- 

 moved to London, and became editor of The 

 Atlas newspaper. In 1839, in conjunction 

 with .Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Dr. Lard- 

 ner, he assisted in establishing the Monthly 

 Chronicle magazine, of which he was afterward 

 the editor. He also editod the Story-Teller, 

 the Mirror, and Home News. He contributed 

 to Lardner's " Cyclopaedia," the concluding vol- 

 umes of Mackintosh's "History of England," 

 and of Southey'fl "Lives of the British Admi- 

 rals," and a "History of Russia." He also 

 published "The Ladder of Gold" (1850); 

 "Heart and Altars;" "Life of Canning;" 

 " Outlines of China ; " ' Memorials of the Civil 

 War," consisting of the Fairfax correspondence, 

 2 vols. ; " Wayside Pictures through France, 

 Belgium, and Holland;" and, in 1854, com- 

 menced an annotated edition of the English 

 poets, of which twenty-nine volumes have ap- 

 peared, and an elaborate anthology of English 

 poetry, entitled "Golden Leaves." His last 

 work was editing selections, entitled " Art and 

 Song." 



April 18. SMIRKE, Sir ROBERT, Knt., R. A., 

 a celebrated architect, died at Cheltenham, 

 England. He was born in London in 1780, 

 educated at Apsley School, near Wolmrn, and, 

 after a thorough course of professional study, 

 spent several years in Italy, Sicily, and Greece, 

 visiting, at intervals, the principal cities of Eu- 

 rope. Steadily advancing in his profession, he 

 obtained the gold medal of the Ro.ral Academy 

 in 1799, was elected an associate in 1803, and a 

 royal academician in 1811. In 1809 he built 

 Covent Garden Theatre; in 1823 the British 

 Museum, and, shortly after, the General Post- 

 Office. The restoration of York Minster, after 

 its destruction by fire in 1829, was among his 

 best public works. He was among the first to 

 apply the mediaeval style to domestic architec- 

 ture, but most of his works are in the classic 

 style. For a long time he held the office of 



