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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



the authors, to suit his ideas, and often an- 

 nouncing anonymous books of inferior merit, 

 as by popular authors; died in London. 



June 81. jAxnsox, WILLIAM, M. D., an 

 eminent English botanist and scientist, who 

 had been for many years engaged in the study 

 of South American botany ; died at Quito, from 

 exposure to the heat and over-fatigue in climb- 

 ing Mount Chimborazo. 



JUM 21. SMITH, TTLER, M. D., an eminent 

 English physician and medical writer ; died at 

 Biohmond, Kujrland. His works on parturi- 

 tion and other topics were the result of care- 

 ful and protracted observation and research, 

 and were very popular. Most of them have 

 been repnblishea in this country. 



June 24. HUNT, THORNTON LEIGH, an Eng- 

 lish artist, art-critic, journalist and politician, 

 born in London, September 10, 1810 ; died in 

 London, aged 68 years. Finding the enforced 

 leisure of the studio wearisome, he at first be- 

 gan to write art criticisms for the London 

 papers; then became political editor succes- 

 sively of the Comfit u tional, the North Cheth- 

 ire Reformer, and Glagow Argut, and finally 

 formed a connection with the Spectator, which 

 lasted from 1840 to 1860 writing also, mean- 

 while, for other papers and periodicals. At'tiT 

 1860 he devoted his attention exclusively to 

 political affairs. Mr. Hunt published numer- 

 ous pamphlets; an historical romance, entitled 

 "The Foster-Urother," the scene of which was 

 laid in Italy, and edited his father's " Autobi- 

 ography," published in 1850, and his "Cor- 

 respondence," published in 1862. 



July 8. WlXTKRIIALTER, FllANV.-XAVIF.n, a 



celebrated portrait and genre painter, born in 

 Baden, in 1806, but long resident in Paris nnd 

 London : died in London, aged 67 years. He had 



d his art at Munich and Rome, spending 

 many years in the latter city. Ho took up his 



'nco in Paris in 1834, and over after re- 

 garded that city as his home, though making 

 frequent and often protracted excursions to 

 St. Petersburg, Leinsie, Munich, Berlin, Bras- 

 !on, and Madrid. Ho was in great 

 demand as portrait-painter to myal and p- 

 ly bouses, and had painted, within the past 

 years, almost all the crowned heads of 

 :>e. He hod made numerous portraits of 

 Qneen Victoria, the princ* consort, nnd the 

 young princes and princesses; of Louis Na- 

 poleon, the Empress, and the prince imperial : 

 and, earlier, of Louis Philippe, his Queen, and 

 nil the members of the house of Orleans, as 

 well as of the imperial family of Russia. !! 

 hail also painted many finegmr,- picture*. tV- 



noted being "Maternal LOTS," 1836; 

 "The Decameron," "Tip '.mghterof 

 Ariccia," both in 1 888 ;" Florinda and Roderick 



'ioth." lM-,2; "The Empress (of th- 

 in, nnrrounded by her Damos of Honor." 

 He l,ad re.-, ivod at various times 

 the order* of merit of most of the countries 

 of Europe, and many medals. M. Winter- 

 halter belonged to the modern French school 



of art, which believes in intensity of color, 

 and in making a strong impression upon the 

 senses by art; but hu was, in the accuracy ,,i 

 ;-:isviiiL'. the grace of position, and the, 

 vividness and perfection of light and shade, by ' 

 far the best of the sc! 



July 1:1. MAYOHOA Josfe MARIA, a Cuban 

 merchant in New York City, one of the most 

 zealous advocates of Cul>:m independence, and 

 one of the largest contributors to it; died in 

 New York City, aged 55 years. He was born 

 in Havana, in 1818, and, after receiving a good 

 education in the Havana University, estab- 

 lished himself in that city in tlm tobacco-trade. 

 In 1852 he came to New York, and represent- 

 ed several prominent tobacco-manufacturers of 

 Cuba. Having acquired a fortune in his busi- 

 ness, he retired from it, and engaged in dealing 

 in real estate. He was minister of the Cuban 

 Republic to the United States in 1871, and at 

 his death treasurer of the Cuban fund, lie 

 was one of the founders of the Spanish Roman 

 Catholic Church of Santiago in West Twenty- 

 second Street, New York. 



July 18. SALOMONS, Sir DAVID, Bart., M. 

 P., Alderman of London, and former Ili^'li- 

 Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and of K. nt, 

 and Lord-Mayor of London in 1855-'66 ; died 

 in London, aged 76 years. Sir David was a 

 member of a Jewish family of distinction in 

 London for several generations. He was born 

 in 1797, educated in the Jewish faith, and, hav- 

 ing been elected High-Sheriff of London and 

 Middlesex in 1885 the first Jew who had 

 ever been elected to that office, an act of Par- 

 liament was passed, enabling him to quality 

 for it. He was elected alderman in 1835, in 

 1844, and in 1847, the first and second elec- 

 tions having been annulled in consequence of 

 his refusing to subscribe the declaration tben 

 required by law, "on the faith of a Christian." 

 lie was elected a member of Parliament five 

 times before he was permitted to sit, on similar 

 grounds, but fought the battle against the 

 oaths of abjuration, which were required of 

 every mom her, with great gallantry, until 1859, 

 when they were so for changed that he was 

 admitted to his seat for Greenwich. This con- 

 test was not merely for himself; it opened the 

 way thenceforward for not only Hebrews, but 

 other dissenters, to take seats in the House of 

 Commons. He continued in Parliament to his 

 death. Alderman Salomon was called to the 

 bar at the Middle Temple in 1849, was High- 

 Sheriff of Kent in 1889-'40, and magistrate 

 and Deputy-Lieutenant for Kent, Sussex, and 

 Middlesex. He was created a baronet of tho 

 United Kingdom in 1809. lie had wt 

 several works on "The Currency," "Corn- 

 Laws," "Oaths," " Religions Di~.il. i] 



July 28. ROSE, GI-STA v. Ph. !>.. an eminent 

 German chemist and mineralogist ; died in 

 Berlin, aged 75 years. Ho wns yoi. 

 brother of the famous chemist, Iloinrieh i. 

 and was born in Berlin. March 18, IT'.**. He 

 was educated in tho university of that city, 



