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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



Prime Minister in the first Executive Com- 

 mittee under Sir Henry Barkly's Administra- 

 tion, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Re- 

 ceiver-General, and, finally, Colonial Secretary. 

 In acknowledgment of his talents and eminent 

 services, the Queen, in the year 1854, made 

 him a Commander of the Bath, the honor thus 

 conferred upon him being the first instance of 

 a colored man being admitted into what may 

 be called an order of nobility. 



Feb. 9. MURCHISON, Lady CHARLOTTE, wife 

 and scientific coadjutor of Sir Roderick Impey 

 Murchison, the celebrated geologist and geog- 

 rapher ; died in London, aged 80 years. She 

 was the daughter of General Hugonin, and 

 married, September 15, 1815, Roderick Impey 

 Murchison, then a captain in the British Army. 

 Through her influence, her husband was led, 

 after his retirement from the army service, to 

 devote his attention to physical science, in 

 which he has since won such renown. She 

 entered with great zest into all his studies, and 

 her attainments in both geology and geography 

 were hardly inferior to his. She was highly 

 esteemed by all the scientific friends of her 

 husband, to whom her rare conversational 

 powers and her extensive attainments were a 

 source of constant delight. 



Feb. 12. EPPS, JOHN, M. D., a homoeo- 

 pathic physician, .phrenologist, politician, and 

 author; died in London, aged 64 years. He 

 was educated at Mill Hill, and the University 

 of Edinburgh, where he graduated M. D. in 

 182V. He settled in London in the same year, 

 commenced practice, lectured to medical stu- 

 dents on the materia medica, and other sub- 

 jects, and, having embraced the doctrines of 

 Gall and Spurzheim, published about 1830 a 

 work entitled "Hora3 Phrenologicse." He was 

 appointed in 1831 Medical Director of the Royal 

 Jennerian and Royal Vaccine Institution, and 

 continued to hold that office till his death. He 

 was editor, for a number of years, of the Lon- 

 don Medical and Surgical Journal, of the An- 

 thropological Magazine, and of the Journal of 

 Health and Disease. He became a convert to 

 homoeopathy very early, lectured upon it, 

 published a number of works on the subject, 

 and edited for many years a homoeopathic 

 journal. He was a very active political re- 

 former, and was identified with all the liberal 

 measures agitated in England for the last 

 forty years. In private life he was a man of 

 great generosity, and of a genial and sym- 

 pathizing nature. He had published twenty- 

 two volumes aside from his journals, most of 

 them devoted to homoeopathy or phrenology, 

 though two biographies and one or two politi- 

 cal essays were included among them. 



Feb. 13. BERGENROTH, GTJSTAVE H., a Prus- 

 sian scholar, devoted to historic studies ; died 

 in Madrid, Spain, of typhus fever. He had 

 been engaged for nearly nine years in the in- 

 vestigation of the Spanish diplomatic records 

 and letters relative to the period of Henry 

 "VIII., Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, 



known as the "Simancas Papers," and had 

 furnished to Mr. Froude much of the material 

 of which he has made such excellent use in his 

 histories. Herr Bergenroth had, but a few 

 months previous to his death, succeeded in ob- 

 taining permission, till then strenuously with- 

 held from him, to examine some important 

 documents, relative to the private life of Queen 

 Catharine of Aragon, and a projected mar- 

 riage between Henry VIII. and Queen Juana, 

 the widow of King Philip and mother of 

 Charles V., and it is believed that he had 

 transcribed most of these papers. 



Feb. 13. CAZOTTE, CHARLES FERDINAND DE, 

 Consul-General of France for California ; died 

 in San Francisco, aged 50 years. M. de Cazotte 

 was an officer of the Legion of Honor, and had 

 been decorated with several foreign orders. 

 He was successively French consul at Panama, 

 Lima, and Valparaiso, and finally was appointed 

 to reside in San Francisco in place of M. F. 

 Gautier. After a residence of many years 

 abroad, he obtained leave of absence and re- 

 visited his native land in 1868, and was pro- 

 moted to the position of consul-general in 

 California his Government deeming it im- 

 portant that French commerce should be thus 

 directly in communication with the ministry 

 instead of by the medium of the French con- 

 sulate-general in New York, as heretofore. 



Feb. 13. WARDROP, JAMES, F. R. S., an 

 eminent British surgeon and surgical writer ; 

 died in London, in his 87th year. He was born 

 in Linlithgow, Scotland, August 14, 1782, edu- 

 cated at the High School and University of 

 Edinburgh, and studied medicine there and in 

 London, where he was a pupil of Clive, Cooper, 

 and Abernethy, and subsequently in Paris and 

 Vienna. He made for some years diseases of 

 the eye his specialty, and, while in practice at 

 Edinburgh, published "Essays on the Morbid 

 Anatomy of the Human Eye." In 1814 he re- 

 moved to London, became a member of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, and in 1818 was 

 appointed Surgeon Extraordinary" to the Prince 

 Regent, and in 1828 Surgeon to the King. He 

 was a lecturer on Surgery at the Aldersgate 

 School, for several years, and devoted much 

 attention to the treatment of aneurism, on 

 which he published a treatise. His practice of 

 tying the artery on the distal side of the 

 aneurismal tumor was said by the late Dr. 

 Valentine Mott to have conferred the highest 

 honor and the most lasting fame on Mr. War- 

 drop. He was through his whole course an 

 earnest friend of medical reform in London.. 

 He published six distinct medical treatises, 

 and numerous contributions on surgical topics 

 (including the article "Surgery") to the "En- 

 cyclopedia Britannica," to Costello's "Cyclo- 

 pssdia of Practical Surgery," and the medical 

 and surgical journals, reviews, etc. 



Feb. 18. BALDWIN, CHARLES, a veteran jour- 

 nalist and newspaper proprietor; died in Lon- 

 .don, in the 95th year of his age. He was born 

 in 1774, was the son of the founder of the 



