OBITUARIES, FORKKJN. 



perfect himself in bin researches. He had 

 been for more than forty years one of the 

 ablaut as well as one of the most learned 

 of the advocate* of the doctrine of the I'mty 

 of the Human Race. His principal works 

 were : " A General History of Legal Medi- 

 cine," for Bogle's " Encyclopasdia," 1835; 

 Ali the Fox, or the Conquest of Algiers," 2 

 vols., 1832 ; " Wanderings in the Orient," a 

 vola., 1840-1855; "General History of the 

 Human Races; or Philosophic Ethnography," 

 1851 ; "Biography of Mazduc, a Persian Re- 

 former," 1840; "New Ideas Concerning the 

 Pyramids," 1845; "Mahomet considered as a 

 Private Citizen, an Artist, and a Politician," 

 1833 ; and numerous works of less merit. 



M.irch 3. HALL, Mrs. MATTHEW, an accom- 

 plished historical writer, the author of" Queens 

 before the Conquest" and some historical 

 works, died in London. She was a kinswoman 

 of the Misses Strickland, and her principal 

 work in connection with Miss Agnes Strick- 

 land's " Queens of England, " Queens of Scot- 

 land," and "Bachelor Kings of England," 

 forms a continous history of the royal person- 

 ages of England from the earliest period. 



March 8. MADDEN, Sir FBEDEBIO, K. II., 

 F. R. S., F. S. A., M. R. I. A., a dialing 

 and laborious English antiquarian, for thirty 

 yean keeper of the Department of Manuscripts 

 at the British Museum; died in London, aged 

 73 years. He was born at Portsmouth, Eng-. 

 land, received a careful private education, as- 

 sisted Mr. Roscoo in 1825 in cataloguing the 

 Earl of Leicester's manuscripts, in 1820 became 

 an assistant in the Library of the British 

 Museum, was deputy keeper of the manuscripts 

 there as early as 1830, and head of that depart- 

 ment frimi 18-17 to his resignation in Septem- 

 ber, 1846. He was made a Knight of the Hano- 

 verian Order in 1834, and Knight Baronet in 

 1835. He was appointed one of the Gentle- 

 men of her- Majesty's Privy Chamber in No- 

 His published works, whether 

 edited or original, are very numerous and 

 nearly all antiquarian in their character. 

 Among them were "The Privy Puree Ex- 

 penses of the Princess Mary, Daughter of 

 Henry VIII., afterword Queen Mary, with a 

 Memoir of the Princes*, and Notes " 1830 (with 

 Rev. Jonah Forehall); the " Wycliffite 

 ions of the Holy Scriptures," 4 vols. 4to, 1850 

 (thU was the work of twenty-two years); 

 "Havelock the Dane," 1888; "William and 

 the Werewolf," 1882; the old English version 

 of the "GesU Romanorutn," 1888; "Laya- 

 mon's Brut, or Chronicle of Britain, a poetical 

 semi-Saxon paraphrase of the Brut of Wace," 

 I voU. 8ro, 1847; "Syr Garvayno," 1889; the 



Hittoria Anglornm " of Matthew Paris, 1889 ; 

 " Observations upon the autograph of Shak- 

 pweand the Orthography of his name," 1887; 



Document* rotating to Perkin Warbeck " 



887; articles in the Oentltman'i Magatint, 

 the " Archssologia," and " OollectuneT Typ 

 graphic*." 



March 8. THOMSON, ROBERT WILLIAM, C. E., 

 a distinguished member of the Royal Institute 

 nf Civil Kntdneers, the inventor ot' tin- 

 motive traction steam engine; died in London, 

 !i_-i-.i .Y.i j. .ir,~. 



March 9. LAMBBCSOHINI, RAPHAEL, called 

 the Abb6 LAMBBUSCHINI, in distinction from his 

 uncle, who was bishop and afterward cardinal, 

 an Italian writer on education ; died in Rome, 

 at the age of 85 years. He was born ut Gerva, 

 Piedmont, August 14, 1788, received his early 

 education at home, went to Rome in 1805, to 

 study theology, and thence to Orvu-to, v, 

 his uncle was then bishop. In 1812 he was 

 obliged to emigrate for some time to Corsica. 

 In 1810 he returned to Florence with his family, 

 and in 1817 established himself in a country 

 residence near Figline, where he passed a dozen 

 years in the study of the natural sciences, agri- 

 culture and political economy. In 1830 he re- 

 solved to devote himself wholly to the promo- 

 tion of education in Tuscany. For this purpose 

 he founded the Tuscan Journal <>f Agriculture, 

 in 1831 or 1832, the Teacker'i Guide in 1886, 

 and maintained both till 1844, and subsequently 

 edited tho " Transactions of the Academy of 

 Lovers of Husbandry," of which he was a 

 member. His principal pedagogical work is 

 entitled " Concerning Education," 1849 ; and 

 a companion volume, " A Treatise on Instruc- 

 tion," was published just before hisdeath. Both 

 works are of standard and permanent value. 

 The Abb6 Lambrnschini, was a member of 

 the National Assembly in 1848, and ranked 

 with the moderate Liberal party. He was for 

 some time one of the editors of La Putrie, but 

 as soon as possible returned to his farm and 

 his educational studies. 



J/.irrA 17. SALVADOB, JOSEPH, a Jewish 

 historical and polemical writer ; died in Paris, 

 aged 77 years. He was born in Montpcllier, 

 France, in 1796, and was descended from one 

 of the Jewish families who were banished from 

 Spain at the end of the fifteenth century. Ho 

 studied science, philosophy, and medicine, in 

 the university of his native city, and at the 

 ago of twenty received his medical dt- 

 from the Faculty of Montpcllier, before whom 

 he delivered a very ublo thesis on the applica- 

 tion of philosophy to pathology. From Mont- 

 pellier ho migrated almost immediately to Par- 

 is, where he devoted himself at once to histor- 

 :id polemical studies. In 1822 ho pub- 

 lished his "Law of Moses; or. Religions mid 

 Political System of the Hebrews," 1 vol., 8vo, 

 which was well received, but which did not 

 satisfy him, and, six years later, he published 

 a new edition, almost entirely rewritten, and 

 greatly enlarged, in 8 vols., 8vo, with the title 

 " History of the Institutions of Moses and tho 

 Hebrew People." This has been repeatedly 

 repulilished, and in 18G2 was again revised and 

 partly rewritten by the author. A portion of 

 it, NUttau to the trial of Christ, was replied 

 to, very sharply, by the elder Dupin, in his 

 "Jesns before Cainphas and Pilate," 1829. 



