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Affairs ; was appointed charge d'affaires and 

 afterward embassador to Switzerland ; in 1834 

 embassador in Munich ; in 1838 embassador to 

 the Bundestag in Frankfort ; and in 1840 ex- 

 traordinary embassador to Belgium. In 1843 

 he took charge of the Ministry of Foreign 

 Affairs, was forced to resign with his colleagues 

 after the revolution of May, 1849, but was 

 elected to the Second Chamber in 1850, and by 

 this body a member of the Parliament of Er- 

 furt. In 1851 he was compelled to resign his 

 position on account of his health, and devoted 

 himself from that time exclusively to literary 

 labors. 



EADIE, JOHN, D. D., LL. D., a Presbyterian 

 minister, born about 1813; died June 3, 1876. 

 He was educated at the University of Glasgow. 

 Having joined the United Presbyterians, he 

 was for many years pastor of a church in 

 Glasgow, and Professor of Biblical History in 

 the Divinity Hall of his church. He was a 

 member of the Bible Revision Committee, and 

 was the author of a ' Bible Cyclopedia," 

 " Commentaries " on the Greek text of several 

 of St. Paul's Epistles, and a "Life of Dr. Kit- 

 to." He also contributed a number of articles 

 to the Journal of Sacred Literature, the North 

 British Review, and other journals. 



EBEKHARD, MATHIAS, Bishop of Treves, born 

 November 1, 1815 ; died May 30, 1876. He 

 was ordained as a priest in 1839, was appoint- 

 ed Suffragan Bishop of Treves in 1862, and in 

 1867 was elected bishop. In 1874 he was one 

 of those Prussian bishops who refused to obey 

 the Government, and in consequence was sen- 

 tenced to pay a fine; and as he refused to pay 

 it, he was imprisoned up to the end of the 

 year. 



EDGELL, HAERT EDMUND, a British admiral, 

 born in 1810; died February 4, 1876. He was 

 the son of Rear- Admiral Edgell, received his 

 education at the Royal Naval College, and em- 

 barked in 1823 as a volunteer. After serving 

 for nearly three years as midshipman and mate 

 on different stations, he was promoted to the 

 rank of lieutenant in 1828. As such he dis- 

 tinguished himself in China, and in 1834 as- 

 sisted in forcing the passage of the Boca Tigris. 

 He subsequently commanded the Siren, on the 

 Mediterranean station. He had received the 

 thanks of the trustees of the British Museum 

 for removing the sculptured remains of the 

 tomb of Mausolus, now named the Canning 

 Marbles, from the Castle of Boodroom in Asia 

 Minor. He became rear-admiral (on the re- 

 tired list) in 1864, and vice-admiral in 1871. 

 He had been a Companion of the Order of 

 Bath since 1859, and had been in receipt of a 

 Greenwich Hospital pension since 1866. 



EDWABDS, Sir BRYAN, a British lawyer, 

 born in 1799 ; died July 6, 1876. He had 

 been Chief-Justice of Jamaica, and was knight- 

 ed in 1859. 



EICHWALD, KARL EDTTARD, a Russian nat- 

 uralist, born July 4, 1795 ; died in November, 

 1876. He studied medicine and natural his- 



tory in the Universities of Berlin and Vienna, 

 was appointed lecturer in the University of 

 Dorpat in 1821, Professor of Zoology and Mid- 

 wifery in the University of Kazan in 1823, in 

 1838 Professor of Mineralogy and Zoology in 

 St. Petersburg, Professor of Paleontology in the 

 Mining Institute in St. Petersburg, and retired 

 into private life in 1851. He undertook 

 extensive explorations to the Caspian Sea, 

 the Caucasus, through Southern Europe, and 

 through Sweden, Norway, Esthonia, and Fin- 

 land. He was the author of numerous works, 

 the most important of which are : " Alte 

 Geographic des Kaspischen Meers, des Kau- 

 kasus und des siidlichen Russland" (1838); 

 "Fauna Caspio-Caucasica " (1841); "Bei- 

 trage zur Infusorienkunde Rnsslands" (1844) ; 

 "Die Urwelt Russlands " (1840-'47); in Rus- 

 sian, "Palaeontology of Russia" (1851), "Le- 

 thsea Rossica " (2 vols., 1862-'68); "Analek- 

 ten aus der Palaontologie und Zoologie Russ- 

 lands " (1872), and " Geognostisch-palaonto- 

 logische Bemerkungen uber die Hulbinsel Man- 

 gischlak und die Aleutischen Inseln " (1872). 



EKMANN, GUBTAV, a Swedish manufacturer, 

 born in 1804; died May 2, 1876. He was a 

 member of the First Chamber of the Swedish 

 Riksdag, a member of the Academy of Sci- 

 ences and of the Agricultural Academy of 

 Stockholm. 



ERICIISEN, ALEXANDER LEOPOLD VON, a Ger- 

 man general, born about 1787 ; died February 2, 

 1876. He entered the service of Brunswick in 

 1801 ; fought at Jena and Auerstadt, and with 

 Wellington in Spain, and at the time of his 

 death held the rank of lieutenant-general on 

 the retired list. 



ESMONDS, Sir JOHN, M. P., born in 1826; 

 died December 10, 1876. He was educated at 

 Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the 

 Irish bar in 1850. He represented Waterford 

 County in the Liberal interest since 1852, and 

 in June and July, 1866, was a Junior Lord of 

 the Treasury. He succeeded his uncle, Sir 

 Thomas Esinonde, as tenth baronet, in 1868. 

 He was a deputy-lieutenant for the county of 

 Wexford, lieutenant-colonel and honorary col- 

 onel of the Waterford militia, and a member 

 of the Royal Irish Academy. 



ESTCOCRT, THOMAS HENRY SUTTON SOTHE- 

 RON, an English statesman, born in 1801 ; died 

 January 6, 1876. He was educated at Harrow, 

 and at Oriel College, Oxford ; was in Parlia- 

 ment for Marlborough from 1829 to 1832, for 

 Devizes from 1835 to 1844, and for North Wilts 

 from 1844 to 1865. In 1858-'59 he was Presi- 

 dent of the Poor-Law Board, and for a short 

 time in 1859 Secretary of State for the Home 

 Department. He was also justice of the peace 

 and deputy -lieutenant for Wilts and Gloucester. 



FALKE, JOHANNES FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB, a 

 German historian, born April 10, 1823 ; died 

 March 2, 1876. He was appointed first secre- 

 tary in the Germanic Museum in Dresden in 

 1856 ; in 1862 secretary, and in 1864 recorder, 

 of the State Archives in Dresden. In 1856 be 



