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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



R. S., F. R. A. S., an eminent English astrono- 

 mer, died at Hopefield, Haddenham, aged 68 

 years. He devoted his earlier years to the 

 close and careful study of astronomy, which 

 science he enriched hy many valuable observa- 

 tions and memoirs. In 1830 he established an 

 observatory at Ormskirk in Lancashire. In 

 1839 he took charge of the private observatory 

 erected by Mr. Bishop in Regent's Park, since 

 made famous by the discoveries emanating 

 from it. In 1845 he erected a complete obser- 

 vatory at Oamden Lodge, which he shortly 

 after removed to Wateringbury, near Maid- 

 stone. Here he made the important discovery 

 of the interior ring of the planet Saturn. Sub- 

 sequently he removed his instruments to Had- 

 denham, where he made observations till a 

 short time previous to his death, some of which 

 have been of very great value in the advance- 

 ment of astronomical science, especially his 

 scrutinies of the disks of the planets, and meas- 

 urements of double stars. In 1851, in com- 

 pany with others, he visited Sweden, to take 

 observations of the famous total solar eclipse 

 of that year. 



.Feb. 19. COMBE, Mrs. GEORGE, widow of. 

 the author of the "Constitution of Man," and 

 daughter of Mrs. Siddons, died at Nice, France. 

 She was a writer of great ability, and assisted 

 her husband in collecting the materials for 

 his work upon the United States. She ac- 

 companied him in all his travels for more than 

 twenty-five years. 



Feb. 19. DALY, Sir DOMINICK, Governor- 

 General of South Australia, died at Adelaide. 

 He was born in 1798. For nearly twenty-six 

 years lie was acting Chief Secretary in Canada, 

 in 1851 was appointed Governor of the Island 

 of Tobago, and in 1854 received the honor of 

 knighthood, and was made Lieutenant-Govern- 

 or of Prince Edward's Island, which appoint- 

 ment he held until 1859. In 1861 he became 

 Governor of South Australia. 



Feb. 20. BAKER, Dr. B. B., an eminent 

 promoter of education in Malta and the Ionian 

 Isles, died at Malta, of apoplexy. He was for- 

 merly director of the college at Corfu, and 

 Professor of English Literature in the Ionian 

 University. He was a member of the commis- 

 sion appointed to inquire into and report upon 

 the instruction given in the Lyceum and the 

 primary schools of Malta and Gozo. 



Feb. 22. FLORES, General VENANCTO, Presi- 

 dent of Uruguay, was assassinated in the 

 streets of Montevideo. General Flores had 

 been a prominent military officer in Uruguay, 

 and in 1866 headed a revolution which over- 

 threw the government of Vidal, and became 

 provisional President of the republic until the 

 next regular election, which was to have been 

 held in February, 1868. Cn the 15th of Feb- 

 ruary, he resigned the presidency, and refused 

 to be a candidate for a reelection. His son, 

 Colonel Fortunato Flores, and some other am- 

 bitious young men, attempted to compel him to 

 accept, the office again, in the hope of being able 



to attain power and office themselves, and his 

 persistent refusal so irritated them that they 

 conspired for his assassination. 



Feb. 24. HERAPATH, JOHN, an English au- 

 thor and publisher, died at Lewisham, aged 

 77 years. In early life he was associated with 

 his cousin William Herapath in the malt busi- 

 ness, and while the latter turned his attention 

 to chemistry, the subject of this sketch became 

 interested in mathematics. Having retired 

 from the business at Bristol, he, for a time, con- 

 ducted a mathematical academy for the prepa- 

 ration of pupils for the navy. On the formation 

 of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, he 

 became connected with the railway interest, 

 and in 1836 assumed the management of the 

 Railway Magazine, of which, as a weekly 

 paper, under the title of HerapatWs Railway 

 Journal, he was for upward of twenty years 

 sole proprietor. He was the author of two 

 volumes entitled " Mathematical Physics," in 

 which the highest branches of mathematics are 

 applied to the investigation of physical science. 



Feb. 25. CROWE, EYRE EVANS, an English 

 historian and journalist, died in London from 

 the exhaustion caused by a surgical operation. 

 He had keen connected for many years past 

 with the London press, having first had an en 

 gagement on the Morning Chronicle, now de 

 funct, and afterward on the Examiner, and tho 

 Daily News. For some time he was principal 

 editor of the latter paper. He was regarded 

 as more thoroughly informed in Continental 

 affairs than any other English journalist. He 

 was very much respected outside of the journal- 

 istic profession, and maintained a correspond- 

 ence with most of the more prominent public 

 men on the Continent. He had resided much 

 of the time in Paris, of late years, collecting 

 the materials for his able "History of France," 

 published about two years since, by Longmans. 

 He had also published several other works of 

 less importance. His wife, Mrs. Catharine 

 Crowe, authoress of the "Night-Side of Na- 

 ture " and several other popular works, survives 

 him. 



Feb. 25. GIBSON, Sir JAMES BROWN, M. D., 

 K. 0. B., Honorary Physician to the Queen, 

 and Director-General of the medical depart- 

 ment of the array, died at Rome, aged 63 years. 

 He was a graduate of the University of Edin- 

 burgh; entered the service in 1826 as hos- 

 pital assistant, and served in every grade until, 

 in 1860, he became director-general, from which 

 post he retired in 1867. In 1855 he was se- 

 lected as the personal medical attendant of the 

 Duke of Cambridge, and was appointed a K. 

 0. B. in 1865. 



FeJ). 25. SECRETAN, Rev. CHARLES FRED- 

 ERICK, an Episcopal clergyman and author, 

 died at Longdon, Worcestershire. He was 

 born December 5, 1820; educated at King's 

 College, London, and Wadham College, Ox- 

 ford, where he graduated in 1842 with the 

 highest honors, and in 1844 was ordained and 

 licensed to the curacy of St. Mary's, Westmin- 



