OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



better known u Mr*. ALFBKD GATTT, an 

 English writer and editor, died at Sheffield, 

 Eng., aged 64 yean. She was a daughter 

 of Rev. Dr. Scott, chaplain and foreign secre- 

 tary to Lord Nelson, and was born at Burn- 

 ham Parsonage, in Essex, in 1800; marri. ,1 to 

 Ber. Alfred Gatty, D.D. in 1889, and in 

 nection with her husband prepared a HiV> of 

 her father in 1842. Her subsequent works 

 were : " The Fairy Godmothers and other 

 Tales," 1851 ; ""Parables from Nature," 

 (fire series); "Worlds not realized;" "Prov- 

 erbs illustrated;" "The Poor Incumbent;" 

 "Legendary Tales;" "Aunt Judy's Tales;" 

 "Aunt Judy's Letters;" "Old Folks from 

 Homo;" "The Human Face Divine;" " Brit- 

 ish Seaweeds fnnu Harvey's ' Pbycologia 

 Britannic*,' " 1863; "Domestic Pictures and 

 Tales," 1866 ; " Waifs and Strays in Natural 

 History," 1871. Mrs. Gatty edited Aunt 

 Jmlf'i Mayatint from May, 1866, to her death. 

 "The Travels and Adventure* of I lev. Dr. 

 Wolff, the Jewish Missionary and Explorer," 

 taken down from his dictation, were edited in 

 1860 by Dr. and Mrs. Gatty. 



Oet. 6. STRZKI.KOKI, Sir PAUL EDMUND, 

 Count DC, 0. B., K an Australian 



explorer; died in Victoria, Australia, 

 77 years. His explorations were mostly con- 

 ducted in Sooth Australia, where in 

 he discovered the copper lodes of Bnrra 

 Bnrra, and subsequently brought to the notice 

 - r R. I. Murchison (in 1846) such speci- 

 mens of the qnarti veins, and so clear an ac- 

 count of their geological position, as led that 

 veteran geologist, from his knowledge of tho 

 Ural gold -fields, to predict the existence of gold 

 In large quantities in South Australia. 



Oft. 13. SctmrrTAO, Rev. HERMAN, D. D., 

 Foreign Corresponding Secretary of the Brit- 

 ish Branch of tho Evangelical Alliance; di'-d 

 in London aged 61 years. He was a native 

 of Hanover, and educated there. He was an 

 accomplished scholar, thoroughly acquainted 

 with the various languages of Europe, and 

 possessed pleasing manners and address, and 

 an earnest Christian spirit. In 1850, at the 

 Conference of the Evangelical Alliance in 

 Berlin, he formed the acquaintance of tho Brit- 

 ish deUgatea, anil Sir Culling Eardloy became 

 so much Interested in him that he invited him 

 to come to Lon Ion iind take the foreign cor- 

 respondence of the Alliance. He complied with 

 the invitation, and had conducted the corre- 

 spondence with great ability for seventeen 



Oet. 17. MoOLOBt, Vic* -Ad mi r 

 ROBIRT Jons L MMCBIBR, C. B., a British 

 naval officer and arctic explorer; died in 

 Ix.ndon, aged 66 rears. He was born in 

 Wford, Ireland, January 28, 1807, was edu- 

 cated at Eton, and subsequently sent to tho 

 military college at Sandhurst, whence he de- 

 serted and went to Franco. He was next 

 placed in th<' British naval service, served ton 

 years on various stations, and in 1886 accom- 



panied iSir George Back on his second expedi- 

 tion to the arctic regions. In 1848 he aecom- 



I Sir James Ross on his voyage in - 

 of Sir John Franklin, and tho year follow in;: 

 was made commander. In 1 s ")" he left Plym- 

 outh in command of the Investigator, whic-h 

 was provi-ioncd for three years and had a 

 ]>lemcnt of Mxty-i'ight men, under orders to 

 pass through Behring's Straits, and then 

 practicable, proceed to Melville Island an 

 achievement which was not then known to 

 have been accomplished by any vessel. Cap- 

 tain McClure spent nearly four years in tho 

 arctic regions, during which he made search for 

 traces of Sir John Franklin, still keeping in 

 view his purpose of reaching the Atlantic from 

 the Pacific Ocean by sailing around the seas 

 which form the northern boundary of this con- 

 tinent. After meeting with great perils, and 

 displaying remarkable fortitude, lie siicci-cdcd 

 in accomplishing his purpose, mid arrived in 

 F.riL'land in September, 1*54. He was treated 

 with marked distinction on his return, re- 

 ceived the reward of $25,000 offered for his 

 discovery, and subsequently was knighted and 

 made vice-admiral. 



Oet. 24. CRACB-CALVERT FREDERICK, If. I)., 



an eminent chemist of Manchester, England ; 

 died there, aged 64 years. He received hi> early 

 education in Franco, and was appointed a 

 ant-chemist at tho Gobelin tapestry- works un- 

 der his master, Chovroul. In 1846 he was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Chemistry to the Man- 

 chester Royal Institution, a position which ho 

 held till his death. He had a world-wide repu- 

 tation as an analytical chemist. 



Oet. 27. HAMILTON, Mrs. JANET THOMPSON, 

 a Scottish rustic and dialect poetess ; died at 

 Coatbridge, nearGla- 1 77 years. She 



was born in the parish of Shotts, Lanark- 

 shire, October 12, 1796, married at the ago 

 of fifteen, and, though at that time unable. 

 to write, composed a few religious pieces 

 when about nineteen years of age. She had 

 not learned to write until she was past fifty, 

 and did not ic.rain attempt poetical composition 

 until she was fifty-five. In 1868 she pnl>! 

 a volume of "Poem and Songs," in 1808. 

 "Poems and Sketches," and in 1*71 a third 

 volume containing some prose as well as poetry. 

 Her later years were passed in blindnos. sho 

 hail never been twenty miles from her 1 

 had never seen a mountain, a waterfall, tho 

 sea, or any river except tho Clyde. Her educa- 

 tion, as we have seen, was very meagre, y. t she 

 possessed a large measure of poetic genius, and 

 had written some poems which the world will 

 " not willingly let die." Her pooms are mainly 

 on subjects of reform and social progress, and 

 come from the henrt. From isi; 

 she received an annual pension of $250 from 

 the Literary Fund. 



<><>. . lUim.i.ET-DKBciiAMrs, M., the chief 

 gardener of Paris; died in that city. lie had 

 aided M. Hanssmann and M. Alphnud in 

 beautifying Paris, and was so much esteemed 



