OIUTI'AItlKS, 



HUT of IV,:, Mr. Hamilton, accompanied by 



Mr. Iliuii ^tiickland, commenced :ui extended 



tour, which in |s:!ii he continued 



ults iif his travrls were u'iven in 



..lumcs. as ' Kes,. arches in A-ia Miu. u- ; '' 



" I'ontus anil Armenia, their .\nti.|iiities aid 



In 1st;.") Mr. Hamilton was ehos.-n 



Si. 'lit nf tin 1 society for the second time, 

 lis latiT contributions to geology were on Tus- 

 cany, l-'or some years ho had devoted much 

 ion to conchology as connected with the 



stud\ ol'::v..logy. 



\i r. .lr\\, an eminent French 

 M, ilied ::t Chnreiitoii Hospital, near Paris. 

 lie was IK, ni in 1'ai-is, in 1792, and, after receiv- 

 ing a very thorough medical and surgical edu- 



. de\. 'ted his attention almost exclusively, 

 io the different forms of calcu- 

 lus, and to diseases of the genito-urinary organs. 

 In this connection he was the originator of the 

 modern practice of lithotrity, or crushing of the 

 ralcuhis. and invented several very admirable 

 instruments tor t'aeilitatinir this operation. This 

 improvement in the removal of calculi in the 

 hladder has he en the means of saving many 

 lives and a vast amount of siill'ering. M. Civiale 



!s<> a skilful surgical operator, and enjoyed 

 a laive general practice, lie was a member of 

 the Institute and of the Academy of Medicine, 

 and his services to science and humanity had 

 been rccognixed by several of the foreign sov- 

 ereigns. He was suddenly seized with insanity 

 nt the hospital where he was to lecture, and, 

 being carried toCharenton, never recovered his 



on. 



June . REIXAUD, M., an eminent Oriental 

 scholar, died in France. He was born at Lam- 



'n IT'.i'i. Having a decided taste for the 

 Oriental languages, he went to Paris to attend 

 the lectures of Sylvestre de Saey. So rapid 

 was his prom-ess, that he was elected a member 

 of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Let- 

 nd made Assistant Keeper of 

 Orient;.! MSS. in the Imperial Library in the 

 same year. At Sylvestre de Sacy's death, in 

 1858, he was appointed to the chair of Arabian 

 in the School of Living Oriental Languages in 

 lii" Imperial Library. In 1855 he was made 

 Keeper of Oriental MSS. He was the author 

 ,<>f a L'reat many works. During the last years 

 of his life he directed his attention chiefly to 

 the arduous problems to be found in the vexed 



; ons of ancient history and geography. He 

 bad in press the greater part of an historical 

 work on the Crusades, when death so suddenly 

 interrupted his labors. 



Jit I// 1;. I'OXSAI:!), FRANCOIS, a French dram- 

 atist, translator, and author, died in Paris. 

 He was liorii in Vionne, in the Department of 

 I-ere. in isU, and was educated in the Paris 



school. His first essay in dramatic litera- 

 ture, before being called to the bar, was a iran--- 

 lation into French verse of Lord Byron's " Man- 

 (1837). His first composition was the 

 tragedy of "Lucreee," which was highly suc- 



d^and received a prize from the French 



Academy. lie subsequently produced other 



dramas with le-s IQ006H, though the " 

 Amwir<'>i.r" ran a hundred ni/htv In 1862 

 he foii.L'lit a duel with Ta\il.- hchird, a journal- 

 ist, and this atl'air a Horded th.- inspiration for 

 his comedy of " I'llonneur et L'Arymf," 1 pro- 

 duced ;it the odeon. Ponsard was elected to 

 the Academy in 



,///// K. U.\i:nu:oi \, ('n\i:r.ES Ozft, an emi- 

 nent French jurist and author, died at Vaux. 

 in the Department of the ~- -'-e, France. 



He was the son of the celebrated (iiroii'! 

 the same name, and was horn at Marseilles, in 

 1794 f being two years of a^,. when his father 

 perished on the scaffold. He studied law, and 

 was called to the bar at Nismes, in 1814. H - 

 first public act was in connection with a peti- 

 tion presented to the Chamber of Deputies, de- 

 nouncing the acts of vengeance committed by 

 the royalists in the south after the fall of 

 Napoleon. To escape from the persecutions ot 

 the party attacked, he went to Paris and founded 

 the Encyclopedic Moderne. In 1824 he pub- 

 lished an abridgment of "The History of 

 the United States," the " Journey of Lafayette 

 in America," and the "Memoirs of a Sergeant," 

 all of which passed through several editions. 

 In 1830 he was appointed by the government 

 of Louis Philippe Procurator-General at Pondi- 

 cherry, and was transferred successively to the 

 Island of Bourbon, and to Algiers, in the same 

 capacity. In 1852 he was appointed member 

 of the French Council of State, and in 1858 

 Senator. 



July 9. TURNER, Sir GEORGE JAMES. Senior 

 Lord Justice of the Court of Appeals in Chan- 

 cery, Q. C., died in London. He was born at 

 Great Yarmouth, February 5, 1798, and was 

 educated at the Charterhouse, and Pembroke 

 College, Cambridge^ where he graduated in 

 1819. In 1821 he was called to the bar. and 

 shortly afterward edited a volume of Chancery 

 Reports in conjunction with the late James 

 Russell, Q. C. In May, 1840, he was made 

 Queen's Counsel, and in 1847 was elected mem- 

 ber of Parliament for Coventry, which borough 

 he continued to represent as a Liberal Conser- 

 vative until 1841, when he was appointed Vice- 

 Chancellor, and received the honor of knight- 

 hood. In 1853 he became Lord Justice of Ap- 

 peals in Chancery, and at the time of his death 

 was a governor of the Charterhouse. Besides 

 his official merits,, he bore the character of a 

 most amiable, upright, and conscientious man. 



July 10. SALDES, Right Rev. DAXIF.I. 



O'CONNOR, Roman Catholic Bishop of, died 

 in Dublin, Ireland. lie was born in 1783. At 

 the close of his preliminary education he pro- 

 ceeded to Portugal, where he was for two years 

 the fellow-student of the illustrious Dr. Doyle. 

 He was professed a priest of the Order of St. 

 Augustine in 1810, entered on the mission in 

 Cork in 1812, where he became most distin- 

 guis'ied for his zeal and unaffected piety, lie 

 was elected Provincial of his order in 1828, and 

 was consecrated Bishop- Apostolic of Madras in 



