OI'.ITUARIES, FOREIGN. (NKTTLKHIIIP I'M.I.I.I 



IQ 1873. Among his public monument* aro the 

 monument nl' ilu- liiToi-.-ot'thc independence of Tyrol, 

 the Zwingli monument at Zurich, the Haydn statue 



.nil, anil a .-tat lie if Walther VOD dor Voirel- 



'.'irthe I'l'iniiiiiii at I'ni/.eii. Tin' baste of Ki- 



.nUfiiri "ii Minn, of the Archduke Knuix 

 Karl, of the Austrian Emperor, of the Mayor of Vlen- 

 . anil nl' tlir aet"i-> l.:irm-lii- anil Meixncr, are 

 known works of lhat type. 



Nettleship, Richard Lewis, an Kurdish educator, born 

 uliinit is.'m; died on tin- home du Goiiu-r, Switzcr- 

 l:ml, AiiiT. -"', IS'.i'J. Hf as elected a scholar of 

 Malliol College, Oxford, and gained a remarkable 

 nmnlicr of academic distinctions; became u, fellow of 

 his college, and as a classical tutor was one of the 

 'miniating and helpful of the instructors con- 

 neeted with tin- university. Ho took a lively inti-ivst, 

 in thr sport.- of tlic undergraduates, and. WJLS himself 

 an athlrti- and a mountain climber. II is death was the 

 roKult of exposure to an Alpine storm that overtook 

 him while he was ascendinir. Mont Mlanc. 



Nieuwerkerke,Comte Alfred Emilien de, a French artist, 

 horn in Paris, April !''. \^\ : died near Lucca, Italy, 

 .Jan. is, IS'J'2. lie came from a Dutch family; studied 

 onlpture, and in 1843 exhibited a bronze statue of 

 William the Silent, executed for the King of Holland, 

 and shortly afterward made one of Descartes for the 

 city of the Hague, which was duplicated in marble 

 for the city of Tours. In 1849 he was appointed di- 

 rector of the national museums, to which the post of 

 superintendent of the school of fine arts was added 

 directly. He reorganized the Ecole des Beaux Arts 

 in 18(13, and kept the post until the advent of the 

 republic, in 1870. 



Olphert, WybrantSi an Irish landowner, born in 

 County Donegal, in 1810; died there, Sept. 21, 1892. 

 He was graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1832, 

 and in the following year was commissioned a justice 

 of the peace in the county where his father, the Kev. 

 John Olphert, had a large estate, on which a great 

 number of small tenants resided. To this property 

 he succeeded in 1851. He resided constantly on the 

 estate, and never had serious trouble with his tenants, 

 though he evicted 32 of them in 1884, till 1887, when 

 ho refused to make the reductions demanded, and the 

 plan of campaign, was put in force against him under 

 the lead of Father McFadden. of Gweedore. Ho car- 

 ried out evictions in spite of threats and abuse, and 

 forced the tenants at last, in the beginning of 1892, to 

 come to his terms. 



Opzoomer, I'rot'essor, a Dutch philosopher, born in 

 Rotterdam, Sept. 20, 1821 ; died in Oosterbeek, near 

 Arnhem, in August, ls;2. He was called to the Uni- 

 versity of Utrecht as Professor of Philosophy at the 

 age ot twenty-six. His brilliant powers of present a- 

 tion and sharp intellect were employed in contesting 

 the speculative philosophy of Van Scholtcn, which 

 was universally accepted in Holland. He created a 

 new school, the experimental, for which experience 

 forms the only source and marks the final limits of 

 human knowledge. The theories of his system he 

 applied to jurisprudence and theology in several com- 

 prehensive works, in which he discussed the funda- 

 mental principles of those sciences as well as of meta- 

 physics. 



Owen, Sir Richard, an Enirlish anatomist, born in 

 I -am -aster, July 20, 1804; died at Richmond 1'ark, 

 Surrey, Dec. 18, 1S92. At the ago of twenty he en- 

 tered the I'niversity of Edinburgh. and while in Kdin- 

 burgh helped to foun.i the 1 1 unterian Society, and was 

 its first president. In !s-j;, | h . removed to London, 

 studied in the Medical School of St Bartholomew's 

 Hospital, and was graduated there the next year. 

 His first scientific, paper was written at this period 

 and published in ls:!0, and from that time his author- 

 ship of scientific monograph* and books was almost 

 continuous. My IsTs.in.lred.tln' numlicr of scientific. 

 papers read and published by him had amounted to 

 $68. He very early became assistant curator of the 

 museum of the Royal College of Burgeons, with the 

 Huuterian department of which his name is indiasolu- 



bly associated. In 1856 he wan transferred from thin 

 post to that of superintendent of the natural history 

 di partmeitl. of the Mriti.-h Museum. His life of active 

 work extended over sixty year-, and in that space he 

 elaborated and extended the earet'ul -vstcm of in 

 v estimation begun by Cuvier. made I he department o! 

 DallBOntologi al anatomy especially his own, and row 

 to be the greatest anatomist of modern times. In his 

 old age he linked the old and new in science, and 

 while he received new theories with caution, he wan 

 always prepared for changes in scientific thought. 

 His labors for the broadening of hu nan knowledge 

 have been everywhere recognized, and he was made 

 a fellow of nearly*every learned body in Europe ami 

 America. From the Geological Society he received 

 its highest, award, the Wollaston medal, the Linna-an 

 Society granted him its first gold medal for zoology , 

 and the Royal Society gave him first its royal medal, 

 and later the "Copley" or olive crown. He was a 

 Knight of the Legion of Honor, and the King of 

 Prussia gave, him the Order of Merit. In 1 W! he re- 

 tired from his post at the British Museum, and lived 

 for the remainder of his life at Sheen Lodge, Richmond 

 Park, a residence granted him by the Queen. I It- 

 was a most exact observer, an extremely clear writer, 

 and as a lecturer to scientific and to popular audiences 

 was equally successful. In 183i he married Miss Clift, 

 the daughter of William Clift, whose successor lie was 

 at the Hunterian Museum. A complete list of his 

 scientific papers and books would number over 400, 

 but his most important works include: "Odontog- 

 raphy " (1840); "Lectures on Comparative Anato- 

 my " (1843-'69): "Archetype and Homologies of the 

 Vertebrate Skeleton" (1848); "Nature of Limbs" 



(1849) ; "Principles of Comparative Osteology" (1855) ; 



" Palaeontology " (1860); "British Fossil Mammalia 

 I Birds"; & Fossil Reptiles" (1884). 

 ixenden, Ashton, an English bishop and baronet, 

 n at Broonie Park, near Canterbury, Sept. 28, 

 8; died at Biarritz, trance, Feb. 22, 1892. He. was 



and Birds"; "Fossil Reptiles" (1884). 



Oxenden, Ashton, an English bishop and baronet, 

 born at B 

 1808; 



graduated from University College, Oxford, in 1831, 

 and was ordained priest in 1834. From 1848 to 1869 

 he was rector of Pluckley-with-Pevington, Kent, and 

 in 1864 became an honorary canon of Canterbury 

 Cathedral. In 1869 he was consecrated bishop of 

 Montreal, at the same time becoming primate and 

 Metropolitan of Canada. In April, 1878, he resigned 

 his bishopric, feeling himself unequal to its cares, and 

 in May, 1879, was instituted vicar of St. Stephen's, 

 Hackington, near Canterbury, and held that position 

 until 1885. He published " Portraits from the Bible " 

 (London, 1860-'65) ; " Words of Peace : With Medita- 

 tions" (London, 1863); "Prayers for Private Use" 

 (London, 186;?) ; " The Parables of Our Lord " (Lon- 

 don, 1864) ; ' Our Church and its Services" (London, 

 1866); " Decision" (London, 1868); " Short Lectures 

 on the Gospels, from Advent to Easter" (2 vols., Lon- 

 don, 1868-M59); "My First Year in Canada T ' (Lon- 

 don, 1871); "Thoughts for Lent" (London, 1872); 

 "Thoughts for Advent" (London, 1872); "Simple 

 Imposition of the Psalms" (2 vols., London, 1873); 

 "Thi Earnest Churchman" (London, 1878); "Coun- 

 sels to the Confirmed " (London, 1878) ; " My Father" 

 (London, 1884); "Touchstones: Christian Graces and 

 Characters tested" (London, 1884); "Short Com- 

 ments on St. Matthew and St Mark " (London, 1886) ; 

 "Thoughts for Holy Week, with Meditations and 

 Prayers" (London, 1886). 



Peel, Paul, a Canadian artist, born in London, On- 

 tario, in 1660; died in Paris, Oct. _'.">. 1 *'.'-'. He w:it 

 the son of a marble cutter. He studied for three 

 years in the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, 

 went in 1880 to England to continue his studies, and 

 ended his preparation with five years of study in 

 Paris, where he was a pupil of (Jerome. Hi- 

 was entirely French, and lie made the French capital 

 his home. He obtained honorable mention in tin- 

 salon of 1889 for his Life is hitter." and in 1890 re- 

 ceived a irold medal for " After the Bath." 



Pelly, Sir Lewis, an English soldier, born in 182ft; 

 diedin Falmouth. April _"-', 1892. He entered the 



