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OBITUAEIES, FOREIGN. 



volume appeared in 1849, while the last, with 

 the index, was not published until 1872. In 

 1858 Mr. Watts was engaged to prepare a new 

 edition of Ure's " Dictionary of Chemistry and 

 Mineralogy, 1 ' but finding that this book, the 

 last edition of which appeared in 1831, had 

 fallen too much behind the existing state of 

 chemistry to be made the groundwork of a dic- 

 tionary adapted to the requirements of the 

 time, he undertook, with the consent of the 

 publishers and the assistance of a staff of con- 

 tributors, the compilation of a new "Diction- 

 ary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of 

 other Sciences." This work (5 vols. 8vo) was 

 completed in 1868; but as additions were re- 

 quired to keep it abreast of the continual ad- 

 vances of science, a supplementary volume was 

 published in 1872, a second supplement in 1875, 

 and a third (in two parts) in 1879 and 1881. 

 At the time of his death he was preparing a 

 new and abridged edition of this work. Mr. 

 Watts also edited and largely added to the sec- 

 ond volume of the late Prof. Graham's " Ele- 

 ments of Chemistry " (1858). Three editions 

 of Fownes's ''Manual of Chemistry "were edited 

 and revised by him, the tenth published in 1868, 

 the eleventh in 1872, and the twelfth in 1877. 

 A thirteentli edition was also prepared by him, 

 the first volume of which had appeared at the 

 time of his death, while he left the second in 

 manuscript. He was co-editor with Dr. Rich- 

 ardson of the " Richardson and Watts Chemi- 

 cal Technology " (5 vols. 8vo), and a new edi- 

 tion of this work was being prepared under his 

 supervision. He was appointed editor of the 

 "Journal of the Chemical Society " (London) in 

 1850, and was made librarian to the same or- 

 ganization in 1861. He was elected a Fellow 

 of the Chemical Society in 1847, a Fellow of 

 the Royal Society in 1866, and a member of 

 the Physical Society in 1879. 



Wellington, Arthur Richard, second Duke of, 

 born in London, Feb. 2, 1807; died in Brigh- 

 ton, Aug. 13, 1884. He was the eldest son of 

 the great soldier. With his younger brother, 

 Lord Charles Wellesley, he was educated at 

 Eton. For some not very serious scrape, in 

 which the young Marquis and his brother be- 

 came involved, the old Duke advised a sound 

 flogging, adding, in his letter to the master, 

 "and I will ride over and see that it is proper- 

 ly administered," which he did. From Eton 

 Lord Douro went to Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, and in 1828 he entered the rifle bri- 

 gade. In 1834 he became colonel. From 1842 

 to 1852 he was aide-de-camp to his father, 

 then commander-in-chief of the British army, 

 and in 1862 he was appointed lieutenant-gen- 

 eral. For some time before this the Duke, 

 who succeeded to the title in 1852, had been 

 known as one of the most active advocates of 

 the volunteer movement, and was lieutenant- 

 colonel of the Victoria Rifles. He was for a 

 time a member of the House of Commons, but 

 never took part in debate, and was Master of 

 the Horse under the late Lord Derby. Much 



of his time during the last two decades of his 

 long life was devoted to editing the voluminous 

 dispatches, correspondence, and public speeches 

 of his father (33 vols. 8vo). Not one of the 

 19,000 pages passed into the printer's hands 

 till he had read it, and in the correction 

 of the proofs he took the utmost pains. His 

 model index to the work is a volume of 582 

 pages. He also illustrated his devotion to the 

 Iron Duke's memory by erecting on the estate 

 of Strathfieldsaye, near Reading, a lofty column 

 of polished gray granite, nearly one hundred 

 feet high, surmounted by a noble marble stat- 

 ue of Wellington by Marochetti. On the grave 

 of his father's favorite charger he placed in 

 1880 a fine monument, with this inscription 

 from his own pen : 



Here lies Copenhagen, the horse ridden by the Duke 

 of Wellington the entire day of the battle of Waterloo. 



Born 1808, died 1828. 

 God's instrument, though meaner clay, 

 Should share the glories of that glorious day. 



The second Duke was an accomplished schol- 

 ar, and in his advanced years, when his hear- 

 ing became dull and his eyesight all but ex- 

 tinguished, he amused his leisure hours at 

 Strathfieldsaye by translations from Horace and 

 from the poetry of Germany and France, and 

 also by the composition of graceful sonnets. 

 When urged by a friend to gather his poems 

 together for publication, he declined, saying, 

 " There is something contemptible about a son- 

 neteering duke." His memory was extraordi- 

 nary, and held unfailingly to every event in any 

 way connected with English history during the 

 nineteenth century. As a conversationalist, 

 the Duke had few superiors, combining with 

 his charming talk good powers of repartee and 

 admirable gifts as a raconteur. The doors 

 of Apsley House, his London home, were the 

 first in England that were opened to Gen. Grant 

 with a regal entertainment. He was known 

 as a liberal Conservative in politics. The pres- 

 ent and third Duke of Wellington, a nephew 

 of the late Duke, who was childless, is the 

 eldest son of his brother, Lord Charles. 



Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick, the last of the 

 elder line of Guelphs. born April 25, 1806; 

 died at his castle in Silesia, Oct. 17, 1884. He 

 ascended the throne April 25, 1831, after the 

 people had driven out his brother Karl, who 

 refused to recognize the Constitution of 1820. 

 Under his reign, feudal institutions were abol- 

 ished, and Brunswick became one of the most 

 progressive and prosperous of the German 

 states. The Duke always observed the con- 

 stitutional limitations, and was a popular mon- 

 arch. When the people demanded a new 

 Constitution in 1848, he resisted at first, in- 

 stigated by the King of Hanover, yet when 

 the reaction set in throughout Germany he 

 made no attempt to revoke the liberties that 

 he had granted, and withstood the pressure 

 exerted by Prussia to induce him to put re- 

 straints on the press and the platform. His 

 subjects were somewhat scandalized at bis 





