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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (MOLESCHOTT PARIS.) 



He worked out the plan for the mobilization of the 

 French army in the event of war, and is supposed to 

 have completed a plan of campaign to be followed in 

 case another war with Germany should break out. 

 His death was the result of a fall from his horse. 



Moleschott, Jacob, Dutch physiologist and member 

 of the Italian Senate, born in Bois-le-Duc in 1822; 

 died in Kome, May 20, 1893. He studied natural sci- 

 ence and medicine at Heidelberg, practiced medi- 

 cine in Utrecht, returned to Heidelberg as Profess- 

 or of Anatomy, Physiology, and Anthropology in 

 1847, resigned in 1854 on receiving a warning from 

 the Government on account of the materialistic tend- 

 ency of his writings, became Professor of physiology 

 at Zurich in 1856, went in the same capacity to Turin 

 in 1861, was nominated a Senator in 1876, and in 1879 

 became Professor of Physiology in the University; of 

 Kome. The Italians were proud of their adopted citi- 

 zen, and in the Senate he influenced legislation by elu- 

 cidating social questions with his scientific knowledge. 



Moore. Albert, English painter, born in 1851 ; died in 

 September, 1893. His delicate coloring, resembling 

 the art of the Japanese, was appreciated by connois- 

 seurs in England and on the Continent. 



Mortemart, Bene 1 de Bochechouart, Due de, French 

 statesman, born in Paris, March 10, 1804 ; died there. 

 May 23, 1893. Descended from a feudal house of 

 Poitou founded in the eleventh century, he was allied 

 by blood with the Crussols, Montmorencys, and other 

 ancient noble families. He was educated at the mili- 

 tary schools of St. Cyr and Saumur, and received a 

 commission in the lancers of the guard, which he re- 

 signed in 1828. Just before the abdication of Louis 

 Philippe he had been elected a Deputy for the Rhone, 

 and as such he sat in the Constituent Assembly 

 among the members of the Legitimist Opposition. 

 From 1851 till 1863 he sat in the Corps Legislatif. 

 He served in the Franco-German War as colonel and 

 chief of staif in the First Army of Paris, was retired 

 in 1871, and was elected Deputy for the Khone in the 

 National Assembly. He succeeded to the title and 

 estates on the death of his great-uncle in 1875, and 

 was chosen President of the Cercle Agricole. 



Mozley, Thomas, English author, born in Gainsbor- 

 ough, in 1806 ; died in Cheltenham, June 17, 1893. 

 He was educated at the Charterhouse school and at 

 Oriel College, Oxford, where he took his degree in 

 1828, and in the following year was chosen a fellow, 

 and was thus closely associated with the leaders of 

 the Oxford movement for the revival of patristic the- 

 ology and pre-Reformation religion. He accepted a 



ship, and married a sister of John Henry 

 Having edited the " British Critic " for two years, and 

 then become in 1844 a writer for the " Times " on re- 

 ligious and various other subjects, he resigned his 

 pastorate in 1847 and went to London to devote him- 

 self entirely to journalism. He was an indefatigable 

 writer, and the anonymous articles that he contributed 

 to the " Times " till near the time of his death were 

 as rich and choice as anything that appeared in that 

 paper, owing their interest to their ingenious, versa- 

 tile, witty, scholarly ? and polished style rather than 

 to sound and consistent reasoning. Jie undertook 

 clerical work again at Plymtree, Devonshire, in 1868. 

 retiring in a few years on account of infirmity and 

 failing eyesight. His letters from Rome to the 

 "Times" during the Vatican Council in 1869-'70 

 were published in book form. Not long before his 

 death he published a volume of *' Reminiscences " 

 dealing with the Tractarian movement, and two vol- 

 umes of introspective speculative theology entitled 

 " The Word" and " The Creed, or a Philosophy," in 

 which his charming tempered and refined style was 

 first revealed under the author's name. 



Nettleship, Henry, English classical scholar, born in 

 Kettering, in 1839 : died in Oxford, July 10, 1893. He 

 was educated at Durham school and Charterhouse 

 and at Oxford, where he took high honors, became a 

 fellow at Lincoln, was assistant master at Harrow in 



1868-'73, then tutor at Oxford, and in 1878 was elected 

 Corpus Professor of Latin. He published lectures on 

 " Ancient Lives of Vergil" ana other classical sub- 

 jects, and amassed materials for a great Latin diction- 

 ary which the Oxford press is expected to print. 



Nicholson, Alexander, Scottish writer, born in the 

 island of Skye, at Husabost, in 1827 ; died in Edin- 

 burgh, Jan. 14, 1893. He studied first theology, but 

 abandoned his intention of entering the ministry of 

 the Free Church on account of doctrinal difficulties, 

 turned to the law, and was admitted as an advocate 

 in 1860, having previously edited since 1855 the 

 Edinburgh " Guardian," and assisted Sir William 

 Hamilton in the chair of Logic and Prof. MacDougall 

 in the chair of Moral Philosophy. As a legal prac- 

 titioner he was unsuccessful, but he held the office of 

 sheriff substitute, first in Dumfriesshire and then in 

 Greenock, from 1872 till 1889. He was assistant com- 

 missioner in the Duke of Argyll's education commis- 

 sion of 1865, when he prepared an admirable report 

 on the people of the Highlands, and in 1883 was a 

 member ot the crofters commission. He was one of 

 the editors of the eighth edition of the " Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica," contributed frequently to the -'Scotsman," 

 wrote many delightful songs both in English and 

 Gaelic, published a collection of Gaelic proverbs, and 

 revised the Gaelic version of the Bible for the Society 

 for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 



Nissel. Franz, Austrian dramatist, born in Vienna, 

 March 14, 1831 ; died in Gleichenberg, July 21, 1893. 

 His first play was a drama of peasant life, " Ein 

 Wohlthater," produced in the Vienna Court The- 

 ater in 1856. The heroic tragedies in verse that 

 followed, " Heinrich der Lowe" (1858) and "Perseus 

 von Macedonien " (1862), were not successful. "Agnes 

 von Meran " obtained a prize, but on account of its 

 repulsive theme was not well adapted for the stage. 

 None of the managers cared for his plays because 

 they were too grandiose for the modern taste, though 

 his fellow-poets thought it hard that his rare merits 

 should be urns neglected. When Wilbrandt became 

 director of the Vienna Court Theater he staged the 

 rejected " Zauberin am Stein," and it had a great 

 success. His comedy " Ein Nachtlager Corvins " was 

 also accepted. His select dramas were published in 



1892. He left " Mahomet " and several others that 

 have not been played or published. 



Otto, Paul, German sculptor, born in 1847 ; died in 

 Berlin, in April, 1893. He designed the Humboldt 

 statue in Berlin and the statue of Victor Emmanuel 

 at Rome, where he resided thirteen years, returning 

 to Berlin in 1886. His design for a statue of Luther 

 to be erected in Berlin gained the first prize. 



Palmer, H. S., English military engineer and ex- 

 plorer, born in 1838 ; died in Tokio, Japan, March 

 11, 1893. He was the son of a distinguished officer of 

 the Madras staif, entered Woolwich in 1856, obtained 

 a commission in the engineers, and was sent to Brit- 

 ish Columbia, afterward spent twelve years in the ord- 

 nance survey of England, and in 1869 took joint com- 

 mand of the Mount Sinai expedition with Sir Charles 

 Wilson. In 1882 he went to New Zealand to make 

 observations of the transit of Venus. Subsequently 

 he took up his residence in Japan, where he was en- 

 gaged in constructing water works. 



Parien, Louis Esqnirou de, French statesman, born 

 in Aurillac, April 13,1815; died in Paris, April 9, 



1893. He studied law, political economy, and natural 

 philosophy in Strasburg and Paris, graduating in 

 1841. He was a member of the Constituent and Na- 

 tional Assemblies, was made chief of the financial 

 section in the Council of State after the coup d'etat. 

 presided over the same department in the ministry of 

 Ollivier, after having been Minister of Public Instruc- 

 tion, and after the fall of the empire retired into pri- 

 vate life. He was the author of important treatises on 

 taxation, the monetary policies of France and Ger- 

 many, political science, etc., and of a biography of 

 Gustavus Adolphus. 



Paris, Francois Edmond. French naval commander 

 and writer, born in March, 1806 ; died in Paris, in 



