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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



ganists iu Great Britain. "When past middle 

 life he spent several years in this country, 

 during which he was an organist for Trinity 

 Church, New York City. Subsequently he re- 

 turned to his native city. He was a man of 

 fine scientific attainments. Some of his musi- 

 cal compositions rank with those of the great 

 German composers in sublimity and beauty. 



September . TOHEFIK, PACHA, a minister 

 of the Sultan of Turkey, died in Constantinople, 

 at an advanced age. He was closely allied with 

 many Ottoman families of high rank ; and, al- 

 though holding liberal and progressive opin- 

 ions; enjoyed a great religious reputation among 

 true Mussulmans. In his long career he filled 

 many important positions, commencing as 

 chamberlain to Sultan Mahmoud. He was 

 secretary to the late Sultan Abdul Medjid, held 

 an office under the Minister of Marine, and the 

 Grand Vizier, and was president of the Grand 

 Council. He received a pension of 12,000 

 piasters a month from the Sultan, and 10,000 

 piasters a month from the Viceroy of Egypt, 

 the latter for political services. 



October 12. DUBSER, FREDERICK, one of the 

 best Hellenistic scholars in Europe, died at 

 Paris. He was born at Hoerslegan in 1802, 

 and mastered the most profound studies pur- 

 sued in the German universities, became a pro- 

 fessor at Gottingen and at Gotha, and devoted 

 his life mainly to literary pursuits. More than 

 twenty volumes of the "Bibliotheque des Clas- 

 siques Grecs " bear his signature. He prepared 

 a new edition of the Greek Anthology, which 

 he had enriched with more than five hundred 

 new epigrams, and had recently published a 

 new and completely revised edition of " Ctesar's 

 Commentaries," which was issued by the Im- 

 perial press on the occasion of the Universal 

 Exposition. 



Oct. 19. SOUTH, Sir JAMES, K. C. B., a cel- 

 ebrated English astronomer, died in London. 

 He was born in 1785, educated at the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, and for some years prac- 

 tised his profession in South wark, studying as- 

 tronomy in the intervals of business. In 1822 

 and 1823, in conjunction with Sir John Her- 

 schel, he compiled a catalogue of 380 double 

 stars. He made some very important observa- 

 tions, and prepared papers for the Quarterly 

 Journal of Science, and u Phillips's Annals of 

 Philosophy." About the year 1825 he re- 

 moved to Campden Hill, Kensington, where 

 he established a very complete observatory, to 

 which he devoted himself during the remainder 

 of his life. Some of his instruments for ob- 

 servation are exceedingly valuable. In 1830 

 he received the honor of knighthood on the 

 recommendation of the Duke of Wellington. 



Oct. 27. WROTTESLET, Bight Hon. Jonx 

 WROTTESLEY, second Lord, an eminent English 

 astronomer, died at Wrottesley, near Wolver- 

 hainpton. He was bora at Wrottesley Hall, 

 August 5, 1798, was educated at Westminster 

 and Christ Church, Oxford, where he grad- 

 uated B. A. in 1819, taking a first class in 



mathematics and physics. He studied law, and 

 was called to the bar of Lincoln's Inn in 1823. 

 He was an active member of the Committee of 

 the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowl- 

 edge, and contributed several of their treatises. 

 While practising as a barrister he settled at 

 Blackheath, where he built a small astronomi- 

 cal observatory, and trained as his assistant 

 Mr. Hartnup, now director of the Liverpool 

 Observatory. Determined to be of service to 

 science, he took one of the most uninteresting 

 and laborious branches of astronomy as his 

 field, and set about observing the positions of 

 certain fixed stars of different magnitudes, with 

 the view of making a star catalogue. After 

 nearly twelve years of this monotonous labor, 

 he presented in 1838 to the Royal Astronomi- 

 cal Society (of which he was one of the found- 

 ers and subsequently secretary and president), 

 a catalogue of Right Ascensions of 1,318 stars. 

 Supplementary catalogues of a similar character 

 followed in 1842 and 1854, bis lordship having 

 meantime transferred his observatory- to Wrot- 

 tesley. He also gave attention to the deter- 

 mination of stellar parallax, and other astronom- 

 ical investigations. He succeeded his father 

 in the peerage, in 1841, and was active in the 

 House of Lords, serving on several royal com- 

 missions, and always advocated the claims of 

 science when opportunity offered. In Novem- 

 ber, 1854, he succeeded the Earl of Rosse as 

 president of the Royal Society, in which posi- 

 tion he continued till 1857. He continued to 

 interest himself in his observatory work and 

 in his connection with scientific pursuits till a 

 short time before his death. Lord Wrottesley 

 was the author of a valuable work entitled 

 " Thoughts on Government and Legislation." 



Oct. . CHARTROTTLE, M., an eminent 

 French physician, who had devoted his talents 

 to the specialty of diseases of the lungs ; died at 

 Paris, aged 56 years. He was the author of a 

 system of treatment which had excited- much 

 attention, and given rise to very active and 

 protracted discussion among the ablest physi- 

 cians of Continental Europe. He had published 

 several treatises on the subject of his specialty. 

 His death resulted from paralysis. 



Oct. . REXNIE, JAMES, formerly Professor 

 of Zoology in King's College, London ; died in 

 Australia, aged 80 years. He was a native of 

 Scotland, a graduate of the University of Glas- 

 gow, and had been a tutor there til! 1821, when 

 he came with a high reputation to King's Col- 

 lege, London, where he remained till 1840. 

 when he emigrated to New South Wales. He 

 was the author of a popular work entitled 

 u Insect Architecture," and of numerous other 

 works less widely known, but all of considera- 

 ble merit. 



Nov. 12. WARIXGTON, , F. R. S. an emi- 

 nent English chemist, the founder of the Chem- 

 ical Society, died at Budleigh Salterton, Eng- 

 land, aged about 70 years. He had been one 

 of the most active and zealous of practical and 

 experimental chemists in Great Britain, and 



