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Dn Sanlte, Henri Legrand, a French alienist, 

 born in Dijon, in 1830; died in Paris, May 6, 

 1886. He studied medicine in Dijon, after- 

 ward at Rouen and Charenton, and became 

 physician, tirst at Bicetre, and afterward at 

 La Salp^triere. Among his numerous trea- 

 tises was" Le D61ire des Persecutions," sug- 

 gested by the events of the Commune. 



Ebersberg, Ottokar Franz, an Austrian play- 

 wright, born in 1833; died in Vienna, Jan. 

 16, 1886. He wrote under the pen-name of 

 "Berg," and was the author of a large num- 

 ber of melodies and farces, which have amused 

 the public of every German town for the past 

 twenty-five years. Many of his plays were 

 translated into the Magyar and Slav languages, 

 and were performed with success in all parts 

 of Europe. He was the founder of the Vien- 

 nese comic paper u Kikeriki," of which he 

 was editor-in-chief until 1884, when he be- 

 came deranged. He gained a large fortune 

 entirely by his pen, but lived the last two 

 years in a private asylum, where he died. 



Edmonds, Richard, an English antiquary, born 

 in Penzance, England; died in Plymouth in 

 April, 1886. He studied the extraordinary 

 agitations of the sea and earthquake-shocks, 

 and published the results of his investigations 

 in the " Edinburgh New Philosophical Jour- 

 nal," the British Association reports, and the 

 transactions of the Royal Society of Cornwall. 

 In 1862 Mr. Edmonds published a collection 

 of his papers under the title of " The Land's 

 End District; its Antiquities, Natural History. 

 Natural Phenomena, and Scenery," and to 

 these papers he appended a memoir of Rich- 

 ard Trevithick, the Cornish engineer. Mr. 

 Edmonds was also the author of a pamphlet 

 on " The Phoenician Tin-Trade of Cornwall," 

 as well as a larger work on "True Biblical 

 Chronology." 



Edmondstonne, John, an English soldier, died 

 at Belvidere Weston, Herefordshire, England, 

 July 3, 1886. He entered the army in 1850, and 

 served with the Thirty-seventh Regiment dur- 

 ing the Indian mutiny of 1857-'59. He defended 

 the iron bridge over the river Gomtee with fifty 

 men to cover the retreat from Chin hut on the 

 30th of June, 1857. From that date he was 

 engaged in the defeat of the Gwalior rebels of 

 Lucknow until its final release in November. 

 He attained the rank of colonel in 1869, and 

 was promoted to major-general in 1882. 



Edward, Thomas, an English naturalist, born in 

 Gosport, Dec. 25, 1814 ; died April 27, 1886. 

 He was a factory-hand. He spent fifteen years 

 on a collection of the fauna of Scotland, which 

 he was obliged to sell, after which he made a 

 second collection. After the publication of 

 his biography by Samuel Smiles, Edward was 

 awarded a pension of 50 by the Queen. 



Enliedjian, Abbe, spiritual chief of the Ar- 

 menian Church, died in Constantinople, March 

 10, 1886. He, with his community, refused to 

 join the bulk of the anti-Hassounists. In 

 1880 they made their peace with Rome, and 



submitted themselves to the authority of the 

 Patriarch Azarian. A month before his death, 

 the abbe conversed with the Papal delegate, 

 Monsignor Rottelli, and ended what at one 

 time, seemed to be a serious difficulty. 



Fischer, Dr. G. A., a German explorer, died in 

 Berlin, Nov. 14, 1886, from tropical fever. He 

 was awaiting the arrival of his notes and natu- 

 ral specimens from Africa, the results of his 

 exploration, when he fell ill and died at a com- 

 paratively early age. 



Flegel, Robert E,, a German explorer, died in 

 Africa, near the mouth of the Niger, in Sep- 

 tember, 1886. He was an employe" in a Ger- 

 man factory on the Slave Coast, and was habitu- 

 ated to the climate and experienced in African 

 ways before he made his first long journey 

 into the Benue region and Adamawaland, from 

 which he returned to Germany near the close 

 of 1884, after having been several years in the 

 interior, penetrating to the neighborhood of 

 Lake Chad. On the information brought by 

 him, the German Colonial Association, while 

 the African Company were appealing to the 

 Chancellor for imperial subventions to carry 

 out their projects, endeavored through his in- 

 strumentality to establish German trading-sta- 

 tions on the Benue. The German Parliament 

 voted 150,000 marks, which enabled Flegel to 

 undertake his second expedition, which had 

 for its object the exploration of the sources of 

 the Benue, the northern affluents of the Congo, 

 and the Cameroons river. He set out on the 

 expedition in the summer of 1885. The Brit- 

 ish commercial companies that had previously 

 monopolized the trade of the Niger, placed 

 such obstacles in the way of Flegol that he 

 was unable to accomplish the practical object 

 of the expedition. He died of fever while re- 

 turning from his journey. The convention 

 with England respecting the boundaries of the 

 Cameroons colony gains for Germany the com- 

 mercial access to the upper Niger region for 

 which Flegel strove. 



Frere, Edonard, a French painter, born in 

 January, 1819 ; died in Ecouen, in May, 1886. 

 In 1836 he became a pupil of Paul Delaroche, 

 under whom he made rapid progress, but from 

 whose influence he subsequently emancipated 

 himself. M. Frere first exhibited at the Salon in 

 1843. His pictures soon became popular, more 

 so in England than in France. Among his fa- 

 vorite works of this class were "The Reading- 

 Lesson," " The Little Purveyor," "The Cook," 

 " Interior of a Court in Autumn," and " The 

 Studio." In 1859 he produced his popular 

 pictures of " Going to School," and" The Flute- 

 Lesson." In the Great Exhibition of 1867, a 

 considerable number of his works were exhib- 

 ited. In 1869 he produced his companion- 

 pictures of "Boys and Girls leaving School "; 

 in 1870, "The Little Bird"; and in 1872, "A 

 Presentation" and "An Interior." He then 

 rested for some years, but in 1877 painted his 

 "Interior at Ecouen," and the "Departure 

 from School." In the present Salon are two 



