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tablishment of " Die Landwirthschaftlichen 

 Versuchs-Stutionen " caused its discontinuance. 

 In this journal appeared his familiar lectures 

 before farmers' clubs and societies, called by 

 him "field-sermons." These he collected and 

 published as " Ohemische Feldpredigten " 

 (1851), and they have been translated into 

 English by J. E. Teschemacher as " Chemical 

 Field Lectures for Agriculturists " (Cambridge, 

 1853). His other works are " Untersuchung 

 der Zwickauer Steinkohlen" (1840); u Ueber 

 Erkennung und Anvvendung der Giftfarbe " 

 (1844); "Schule der Chemie" (1846), known 

 in English as " The Principles of Chemistry, 

 illustrated by Simple Experiments " (Cam- 

 bridge, 1850), and " Guanobuchlein " (1851). 



Stradbroke, John Edward Corawallis Rons, Earl 

 of, an English soldier and land-owner, born 

 Feb. 13, 1794; died Feb. 3, 1886. He was the 

 eldest son of Sir John Rous, who was created 

 Earl of Stradbroke, was educated at West- 

 minster School, entered the army in 1810, and 

 took part in nearly all the battles of the Pe- 

 ninsular War. He served afterward in the 

 Netherlands, and at the end of the Napoleonic 

 wars retired from the army. He succeeded 

 his father in 1827. On his estate of Henham 

 in Suffolk he introduced the system of allot- 

 ments for laborers forty years before the agi- 

 tation on the subject began. While a Con- 

 servative, he was famed for his liberality as a 

 landlord and his efforts to improve agricultural 

 methods. He was one of the pioneers in scien- 

 tific and experimental farming. He was also 

 well known as a sportsman, possessing a cele- 

 brated stud of thoroughbred horses and the 

 finest kennel of greyhounds in England. At 

 the time of his death, Lord Stradbroke was the 

 oldest peer in the House of Lords. 



Taylor, Sir Henry, an English author, born in 

 1800; died at Bournemouth, March 27, 1886. 

 He entered the Colonial Office in 1824, and 

 remained in active connection with that office 

 for forty-eight years, and during this time he 

 devoted himself to the study of English and 

 foreign literature. His first drama, "Isaac 

 Comnenus," appeared in 1827, and was suc- 

 ceeded in 1834 by "Philip Van Artevelde," 

 the greatest of his works, upon which his 

 fame chiefly rests. In 1836 he issued " The 

 Statesman," a book of maxims respecting the 

 transaction of public business, in tne form of a 

 manual, which many regarded as^ serious, 

 though it was really intended as a satire on the 

 duplicity and evasions of official life. This 

 was followed in 1842 by "Edwin the Fair, an 

 Historical Drama"; "The Eve of the Con- 

 quest, and other Poems" (1847) ; " Notes from 

 Life" (1847); "Notes from Books" (1849), 

 and several dramas. His " Autobiography " 

 was published in 1885. 



Tmhio, Sebastiano, an Italian statesman, born 

 in Vicenza, about 1805 ; died in Venice, Jan. 24, 

 1886. He studied law, and joined the Venetian 

 Liberal party, and during the movement of 1848 

 was sent to Turin by the Provisional Govern- 



ment to ask for the annexation of Vicenza and 

 other Venetian provinces to Piedmont. On the 

 formation of the Gioberti ministry, on Dec. 

 16, 1848, he accepted the portfolio of Public 

 Works, which he held until the fall of that ad- 

 ministration in 1849. He was one of the Vice- 

 Presidents, and later President of the Chamber 

 of Deputies in the Subalpine Parliament. On 

 the liberation of Venice he was at the head of 

 the commission who carried to Victor Eman- 

 uel the unanimous vote of that province. He 

 was appointed chief judge of the Venetian 

 Court of Appeals. In 1866 he was made a 

 senator of the kingdom ; and in November, 

 1876, was elected President of the Senate, 

 which office he held until 1884, when some 

 incautious words of an Irredentist character 

 spoken from his presidential chair obliged his 

 resignation and terminated his political career. 



Teschenberg, Baron Ernst von, an Austrian jour- 

 nalist, born in 1836; died Feb. 25, 1886. He 

 was editor of the "Wiener Zeitung" at the 

 age of thirty-two, and under the ministry of 

 Count Andrassy exercised an important in- 

 fluence in political affairs, and drafted many 

 diplomatic notes, and sometimes the royal ad- 

 dress. He accompanied Andrassy to the Ber- 

 lin Congress, and soon after was ennobled. 



Thomas, Edward, an English numismatist, born 

 in London, Dec. 31, 1813 ; died in Kensington, 

 Feb. 10, 1886. After completing his studies, 

 he went to India in 1832, and succeeded Sir 

 Henry Elliot in the secretaryship of the foreign 

 department in the administration of the Pun- 

 jaub. Pie afterward became judge of Delhi and 

 contiguous territories. He devoted himself with 

 special zeal to the study of the antiquities and 

 history of India and Asia. In 1873 he was 

 elected a corresponding member of the French 

 Institute, and several years later received a 

 similar honor from the St. Petersburg Acade- 

 my. He became a Fellow of the Reyal Soci- 

 ety, and a Companion of the Order of the Indian 

 Empire. The first and in some respects the 

 most important of his works was his edition 

 of James Prinsep's "Antiquities " (1858). This 

 was followed by "Ancient Indian Numerals" 

 (1863), "Early Sassanian Inscriptions, Seals, 

 and Coins" (1868), and the " Chronicles of the 

 Pathan Kings of Delhi" (1871), in which he 

 added a supplement on the " Revenue Re- 

 sources of the Mughal Empire." His " Ancient 

 Indian Weights," which forms an introductory 

 essay of the "Numismata Orientalia," of which 

 he was the founder, is the standard authority 

 on the subject. Between 1848 and 1866, Mr. 

 Thomas contributed sixteen papers to the 

 "Journal" of the Royal Asiatic Society, of 

 which he was honorary treasurer. These pa- 

 pers related exclusively to Eastern coins, and 

 were republished with the title of " Tracts on 

 Oriental Literature." He was also the author 

 of valuable contributions in the twentieth vol- 

 ume of the Bengal Asiatic Society's "Journal." 

 He was joint editor of Sir Henry Elliot's post- 

 humous " History of England." 



