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ster, where for seven years he worked inde- 

 fatigably in the courts and lanes of that crowd- 

 ed district. In 1852 he was presented to the 

 living of Holy Trinity, Vauxhall-road, holding 

 that position until the autumn of 1864. But 

 his labors were beginning to tell upon his nat- 

 urally delicate constitution, and having been 

 offered the vicarage of Longdon, with Castle 

 Morton, he removed thither and continued his 

 ministry there with his usual zeal until his 

 death. He was the author of a " Memoir of 

 the Life and Times of Robert Nelson " (1860), 

 a brief " Memoir of Archbishop Leighton," 

 " Tracts for the Christian Seasons," and a vol- 

 ume of sermons. 



Feb. 25. TOWNSEND, Rev. CHATJNCEY HAEE, 

 an English scholar and author, died in London. 

 He was born in 1800, graduated at Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, in 1821, and in 1828 ob- 

 tained the university prize for English verses, 

 his subject being "Jerusalem." He was the 

 author of "Sermons in Sonnets ; " "The Three 

 Gates;" "Mesmerism Proved True," and 

 " Facts in Mesmerism." He was also one of 

 the colleagues of Macaulay, Praed, and Moul- 

 trie in founding the Quarterly Magazine. 

 During his lifetime he had collected a large 

 number of valuable prints, which he bequeathed 

 to the South Kensington Museum. 



Feb. 25. TURCZ, LTJDWIG, M. D., an eminent 

 Austrian pathologist and medical professor, 

 died at Vienna, aged 56 years. He was edu- 

 cated at the University of Vienna, and received 

 his medical diploma in 1837. Soon after he 

 was appointed one of the physicians of the Gen- 

 eral Hospital of Vienna and had a ward as- 

 signed to him of cases of diseases of the brain 

 and nervous system. Devoting himself to this 

 specialty of his profession with great assiduity, 

 he published some years later the results of his 

 investigations on the minute anatomy of the 

 brain and nervous system, and at once became 

 an authority on all questions of nervous pathol- 

 ogy. His studies on these subjects were con- 

 tinued with unabated ardor until his death, 

 and for some years past he has been recog- 

 nized as at the head of his profession in the 

 pathology and treatment of these very difficult 

 diseases. In 1857 he invented a method of ex- 

 amining the larynx, which has , since become 

 popular, and to him and Dr. Czermak con- 

 jointly is due the honor of founding the art 

 of laryngoscopy. 



Feb. 26. WENSLEYDALE, Rt. Hon. JAMES 

 PARKE, first Lord, an able English judge, died 

 in London. He was born at Highfield, March 

 22, 1782, graduated at Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, in 1803, as B. A., fifth wrangler and 

 senior Chancellor's Medallist, and in 1804 was 

 elected to an open fellowship in that college. 

 In 1813 he was called to the bar at the Inner 

 Temple, and, after a lucrative practice of some 

 years, was raised to the bench, as prime judge, 

 and six years later to the Court of Exchequer, 

 being sworn at the same time a member of the 

 Privy Council. As Baron Parke, he served 



twenty years on the judicial bench, and his fa- 

 miliarity with legal precedents induced Lord 

 Palmerston to call him to the House of Lords 

 in 1855. 



Feb. . FOURCAULT, LEON, a French phys- 

 icist, died in Paris. He was born in that city 

 September 18, 1810, and was educated for the 

 profession of medicine, but subsequently turned 

 his attention to natural philosophy. In 1839 

 the invention of Daguerre led him to make the 

 theory of light a study, the result of his inves- 

 tigations appearing in a volume published in 

 1845. In 1859 the invention of the gyroscope 

 and the application of the pendulum to the 

 ocular demonstration of the rotation of the 

 earth made his name famous throughout the 

 civilized world. He next invented a method 

 for making telescopes with silvered glass, an 

 achievement appreciated by all astronomers. 

 His last researches were directed to the deter- 

 mination of the velocity of light. He was a 

 member of the Academy of Science. 



Feb. . GEORGIA, ANITA PATTLOWNA, Cza- 

 rina of, born Countess of Koutaissof, died in 

 Moscow. She was a lady of great erudition 

 and benevolence, and was an accomplished 

 writer, and composer of many popular songs. 

 For some.years previous to her death she had 

 resided in Moscow, where she was greatly 

 esteemed for her intelligence and genuine 

 worth. 



Feb. . GRAVIER, COTJLVIER, a French phys- 

 icist, died in Paris. He was born at Rheims, 

 February 26, 1802, and his early advantages of 

 education were limited. While following the 

 plough, he was led to observe the stars, and es- 

 pecially was interested in the phenomena of 

 shooting-stars. In 1840, having removed to 

 Paris, he was introduced to Arago, to whom 

 he communicated his observations, and from 

 whom he received great encouragement in his 

 investigations. In 1850 he was appointed di- 

 rector of the meteorological observatory of 

 the palace of the Luxembourg. He believed 

 that shooting-stars revealed the changes of the 

 weather, being meteors diverted from their 

 original course by prevailing winds in the 

 higher regions of the atmosphere, and conse- 

 quently that their direction indicated currents 

 whose action would be felt in the lower re- 

 gions of the air. M. Gravier contributed 

 largely to the Journal of the Academy of 

 Science. 



March 2. BENTINCK, the Baron von , 



Netherlands minister to the court of St. James, 

 and Chamberlain to his Majesty, King of the 

 Netherlands, died in London, aged 70 years. 

 He was formerly secretary of legation at Co- 

 penhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, and Vienna; 

 councillor of legation seven years in Lon- 

 don; represented his country in Bavaria, 

 "Wurtemburg, Belgium, and the Hague. He 

 was a liberal patron of music, and a first-class 

 amateur performer. The baron was the recipi- 

 ent of many honors, both in his own and other 

 countries. 



