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Dr. Todd was one of the founders of the Irish 

 Archaeological Society, and was a contrib- 

 utor of very many important papers to the 

 "Transactions" of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 of which he was president for the usual term 

 of five years. 



July 2. BEEBBTTGGEB, Loms ADEIEN, a 

 French philologist and author; died in Algiers, 

 aged 68 years. He was born in Paris, May 11, 

 1801. He was educated in that city, and, having 

 a taste for foreign travel, attended the course 

 in the School of Geography. In 1834 he was 

 appointed by the Government to collect orig- 

 inal documents relative to the occupation of 

 France in the fifteenth century. He had 

 adopted the social theories of Fourier, and he 

 lectured on these for some time, publishing his 

 lectures in 1834 under the title of "Confer- 

 ences." He accompanied Marshal Clausel, 

 whose private secretary he was, into Algiers in 

 1835, and was with him and Marshal Vallee in 

 their military expeditions, in which he gathered 

 a great number of Arabic manuscripts for the 

 Library and Museum of Algiers, of which he 

 subsequently became the librarian and conser- 

 vator. From 1835 to 1837 he edited the Al- 

 gerian Monitor, the official journal of the 

 colony. He devoted himself very earnestly to 

 the study of the archaeology of that interest- 

 ing country, and communicated maps and 

 drawings to the French Academy of Inscrip- 

 tions, of which he was elected a corresponding 

 member in 1839. He had received the decora- 

 tion of the Legion of Honor in 1838. He was 

 one of the commissioners who treated with 

 Abd-el-Kader in 1842 for the exchange of pris- 

 oners, and also a member of the numerous 

 scientific commissions which have explored 

 Algeria. Before going out to Algeria (where 

 he spent thirty-four years), he had .prepared a 

 Spanish dictionary and Spanish grammar, and 

 subsequently he published three or four vol- 

 umes of travel in Algeria: "Algeria Historic, 

 Picturesque, and Monumental," 4 vols., 1842- 

 '45 ; two volumes of memoirs in the " Scientific 

 Exploration of Algeria," a "Project of Explo- 

 ration in the Second Line of Algerian Oases," 

 1850 ; " The Great Kabylia under the Romans," 

 also published in 1850, and several works of 

 lighter literature. 



July 8. MAETIN, Dr. JOHN, an eminent 

 physician, meteorologist, and author; died in 

 Lisbon,' Portugal, aged 80 years. His whole 

 life was devoted to the practice of medicine, 

 but the last twenty years he had directed his 

 attention to meteorological questions, and had 

 accumulated a great mass of information on 

 the variations of the barometer, thermometer, 

 and hydrometer, under given circumstances, on 

 the supply of ozone, on the climacteric, meteo- 

 rological, and other circumstances which modi- 

 fy cholera and yellow fever. All these investi- 

 gations were prosecuted after the day's duties 

 were completed, and under the relaxing in- 

 fluences of a warm climate. 



July 9. CALDICOTT, Rev. THOMAS FOED, 



D. D., a Baptist clergyman and author ; died in 

 Toronto, Canada, aged 66 years. He was born 

 in Buckby, Northamptonshire, England, in 

 1803, emigrated to Canada in 1824, and, after 

 teaching there for seven years, removed to 

 Hamilton, Madison County, N. Y., and thence 

 successively to Lockport, N. Y., Boston, Mass., 

 and Brooklyn, N. Y., in which cities he was a 

 pastor for twenty-six years, writing much for 

 the periodical religious press during the time. 

 In 1860 he returned to Canada and was settled 

 as pastor of the Bond Street Baptist Church, 

 Toronto, where he remained till his death, 

 taking an active part in the promotion of all 

 the educational and benevolent institutions of 

 the Canadian Baptists. He was a very thor- 

 ough scholar, an able writer, and an eloquent 

 preacher. 



July 11. JEEDAN, WILLIAM, F. S. A., an 

 English journalist, author, and man of letters; 

 died at Bushey Heath, Herts, aged 88 years. 

 He was born in Kelso, Scotland, in 1782, edu- 

 cated in his native town, and in Edinburgh, 

 and was for a time a law clerk in the office of 

 a writer to the Signet. In 1801 he came to 

 London to push his fortunes, but, after a year's 

 trial of life in a counting-house, returned to 

 Edinburgh to finish his education. He re- 

 visited London in 1806, and was for seven 

 years a reporter or contributor for the Aurora, 

 the Pilot, the Morning Post, the British Press, 

 and the Monthly Meteor, and the publisher 

 of the last named periodical. In 1813 he be- 

 came editor and part proprietor of the Sun, 

 but sold his share in it in 1816 in order to 

 start the Literary Gazette, with which he was 

 connected as editor for thirty-four years. He 

 was one of the founders of the Royal Society 

 of Literature, a member of the Society of An- 

 tiquaries from 1826, and of numerous literary 

 societies. In 1850 he retired from the editor- 

 ship of the Literary Gazette, and soon after- 

 ward a literary pension of 100 a year was 

 conferred upon him. He was a somewhat 

 voluminous writer, having, besides his contri- 

 butions to the reviews, magazines, etc., which 

 were very numerous, written four volumes of 

 Memoirs, to accompany Fisher's "National 

 Portrait Gallery"; the "Paris Spectator," 

 1814; "A Voyage to the Island of Elba; an 

 Autobiography in 4 volumes," 1852-'53 ; " Men 

 I have Known," in 1866; and edited the "Rut- 

 land Papers," and the " Perth Correspondence " 

 for the Camden Society. 



July 12. HAIGH, Rev. R. B., LL.D., M.R. 

 A. S., an eminent philologist, and orientalist ; 

 died at Holmfirth, aged 65 years. He was edu- 

 cated at Rotherham College for the ministry, 

 but his fondness for the acquisition of languages 

 induced him to abandon his theological studies 

 and devote himself to the classics and teaching. 

 He became familiar not only with most of the 

 European languages, but acquired a proficiency 

 in many of the Oriental languages, which was 

 reflected in the attainments of his pupils. He 

 was for many years Principal of Bramhall Col- 



