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of Ferentino. In 1844 he was created Arch- 

 bishop of Tarsus in partibua infidelium, and 

 sent as nuncio to Turin, where he remained 

 until 1851, when he became Bishop of Ancona 

 and Umana, which latter see confers on its 

 holder the title of count. In 1851 he was cre- 

 ated cardinal. He remained at his post during 

 the war of unification, and the Italian attack on 

 and occupation of Ancona ; but while attending 

 to the duties of his see, he refused to recognize 

 the new rulers, and constantly protested against 

 their acts directed against the property of the 

 Church. 



BASTIDE, JULES, a French writer, born No- 

 vember 22, 1800, died March 3d. Having fin- 

 ished his studies, he took an active part in the 

 agitation against the Restoration, and in 1830 

 was one of the first to plant the tricolor on the 

 Tuileries. During the reign of Louis Philippe 

 he was prosecuted on different occasions, and 

 in 1832 he was even condemned to death after 

 the riot at the funeral of General Lamarque, 

 but escaped to England, where he lived two 

 years. In the Revolution of 1848 he played a 

 prominent part, and was for a time Minister for 

 Foreign Affairs. He was the author of a num- 

 ber of political and historical works, the best 

 known of which are " La R6publique Francaise 

 et 1'Italie en 1848 " (1858), and " Guerres de Re- 

 ligion en France " (2 vols., 1859). 



BLACKWOOD, JOHN, a British publisher, born 

 December 7, 1818, died October 9th. He was 

 a son of William Black wood, the founder of 

 " Blackwood's Magazine." After the comple- 

 tion of his studies at the University of Edin- 

 burgh and several years of foreign travel, he 

 established a branch office of the Edinburgh 

 house in London. In 1845, upon the death of 

 his brother Alexander, he returned to Edin- 

 burgh, and from 1846 up to his death contin- 

 ued to edit the magazine, in which he was 

 eminently successful. 



BREWER, JOHN SHERREN, an English histo- 

 rian, born in 1810, died February 16th. He 

 graduated at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1833, 

 and in 1841 was appointed Professor of English 

 Literature in King's College, which position he 

 held until 1876. He edited a large number of 

 valuable works, among them " Fuller's Church 

 History," an edition of the " Nicomachean 

 Ethics," and the " Calendars of State Papers 

 relating to the Reign of Henry VIII." To- 

 gether with William Bullen, he edited the " Cal- 

 endar of the Carew Manuscripts." 



CHAM, the nom de plume of AmSdee de No6, 

 a French caricaturist, born January 2, 1819, 

 died September 6th. He supplied for many 

 years the journals "Charivari" and "Journal 

 Amusant " with illustrations, and was the most 

 popular caricaturist of France. He contrib- 

 ute to these journals a large number of comic 

 drawings, scenes, and reviews, which were af- 

 terward published in the shape of albums. 



CHENU, JEAN CHARLES, a French naturalist, 

 born August 30, 1808, died November 16th. 

 He studied medicine in Paris, entered the army 



as assistant surgeon in 1829, took part in the 

 Crimean war, and during the siege of Paris, 

 1870-'71, was director-general of ambulances. 

 His principal works are "Illustrations Con- 

 chyliologiques " (1842-'47), and "Encyclopedic 

 d'Histoire Naturelle " (31 vols., 1850-'61) ; and 

 he wrote numerous treatises on medical history 

 and natural history. 



Cox, EDWARD WILLIAM, a British lawyer, 

 born in 1809, died November 24th. He was 

 called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1843, 

 attained the rank of sergeant-at-law in 1868, 

 was appointed the same year Recorder of Ports- 

 mouth, in 1870 Deputy Assistant Judge of Mid- 

 dlesex, and subsequently Deputy Lieutenant for 

 the same county. He edited for some years the 

 "Law Times," and was the author of several 

 law-books, including "The Advocate," "A 

 Treatise on the Law of Joint-Stock Compa- 

 nies," " A Treatise on the Law of Registra- 

 tions and Elections," and "A Treatise on the 

 Principles of Punishments." He also published 

 " What am I ? a Popular Introduction to Men- 

 tal Philosophy and Physiology" (2 vols., 1874). 



DELIGEORGIS, a Greek statesman, died May 

 25th. He was President of the Ministry from 

 July to December, 1870, and again from 1872 

 to 1874, and at the time of his death was 

 Minister of Finance. His second administra- 

 tion was particularly noted for the settlement 

 of the Laurium question. (See GREECE, in 

 " Annual Cyclopaedia " for 1872 and 1873.) 



DIESTEL, LUDWIG VON, a German theolo- 

 gian, born September 28, 1825, died May 15th. 

 He studied theology in the Universities of Ko- 

 nigsberg, Berlin, and Bonn. In 1851 he went 

 to the University of Bonn as lecturer on the 

 Old Testament, was appointed in 1858 inspec- 

 tor of the newly established Evangelical Theo- 

 logical Seminary, and extraordinary professor, 

 went in 1862 to Greifswald as ordinary pro- 

 fessor, in 1867 to Jena, and in 1872 to Tubin- 

 gen, where he remained till his death. His 

 principal work is " Geschichte des Alten Testa- 

 ments in der Christlichen Kirche " (1868). 



DOVE, HEINRICH WILHELM, a German sci- 

 entist, born October 6, 1803, died April 6th. 

 He was educated at the Universities of Bres- 

 lau and Berlin, where he devoted himself chiefly 

 to mathematics and physics. In 1826 he was 

 appointed a privatdocent, and in 1828 extraor- 

 dinary professor in the University of Konigs- 

 berg, in 1829 extraordinary and in 1845 ordina- 

 ry professor in that of Berlin. In 1837 he was 

 elected a member of the Academy of Sciences. 

 He was among the first who reduced meteor- 

 ology to the rank of a natural science, and his 

 researches upon the laws of storms and hur- 

 ricanes will always remain among the most 

 valuable contributions to that department of 

 knowledge. His reports and isothermal maps 

 afforded the first representation of the isother- 

 mal lines of the whole globe. He was also the 

 first to announce the presence of a secondary 

 electric current in a metallic wire, and thus 

 claims high rank among the founders of mod- 



