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of Brooklyn, and tested by Messrs. Copeland 

 & Worthen, engineers. The maximum ca- 

 pacity was 833,000 United States gallons per 

 hour, and the duty for forty-eight consecutive 

 hours of 720,000 Ibs. ft. per Ib. of coal, and 

 delivering at the same time into the reservoir 

 35,500,000 gallons (of water). The static lift 

 was about 163 feet. 



t WATTS, THOMAS, M. R. S. L., an English 

 linguist, bibliographer, and author, born in 

 London in 1811 ; died at his residence in the 

 British Museum, London, September 9, 1869. 

 He received an excellent early education, and 

 at twenty years of age was familiar with the 

 Russian, Hungarian, and other Slavonic Ian- 

 languages, as well as with the Scandinavian 

 tongues ; and, on visiting the British Museum 



to prosecute his linguistic researches, was sur- 

 prised to find that there were no Russian or 

 Hungarian, and but few Scandinavian, works 

 in that great library. He wrote, not long after, 

 some articles in the Mechanics' Magazine, mak- 

 ing suggestions for the remedying of this de- 

 ficiency. In 1838 he was appointed assigtant- 

 keeper of printed books in the Museum, and 

 under his careful labors and thorough knowl- 

 edge the library soon became as remarkable 

 for the completeness of its collection of Sla- 

 vonic and Scandinavian literature as it had 

 been before for their absence. In 1857 he was 

 made superintendent of the new reading-room, 

 and in 1866, at the retirement of Mr. Panizzi, 

 keeper of the department of printed books. 

 He contributed numerous very able philological 



