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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (BRUGSCH CAMERON.) 



years he was Speaker of the Assembly, resigning to 

 take an active part in polities. He \\ as one of the 

 promoters of Australian federation, and a member of 

 the Federation Convention at Sydney in l-'.H. He 

 was agent ireneral of South Australia in London from 

 February. 1899, till April. l'.-i, when he resigned on 

 account of failing health to return to his home, which 

 he never reached. 



Brugsch. Heinrich Karl, a German Egyptologist, born 

 in Berlin, Feb. 18, 1*27; died there. Sept. 9, 18J4. 

 While yet in the gymnasium he published a pamphlet 

 entitled "Scripture .Egyptiorum Demotica," which 

 was followed by other tr'c;itises on the Demotic writ- 

 ing of the ancient Egyptians that attracted the atten- 

 tion of Ilumboldt and gained for him the patron- 

 age of Friedrich Wil helm IV. After completing his 

 studies in arch;oloiry and philology at Berlin and 

 examining the Egyptian monuments in the museums 

 of Paris, London, Turin, and Leyden, he went to Egypt 

 in 1853, at the King's expense, and there met Marietta, 

 and was enabled to study his recent rich finds at 

 Memphis. After his return in 1854 he published a 

 u Report of a Visit to Egypt," which was followed by 

 " Monuments of Egypt." In 1857-'o8 he was again 

 in Eirypt, and on his return he published ' Recueil 

 de Monuments Egyptiens." In 1860 he was attached 

 to the Prussian, embassy to Persia, and became chief 

 of the embassy upon the death of Baron Minutoli. 

 He published an account of the mission in 1861. In 

 ls64 Prof. Brugsch was appointed Prussian consul at 

 Cairo, where he remained till 1868, conducting also a 

 periodical devoted to Egyptology. He became then 

 Professor of Egyptology at Gottingen, but resigned 

 in 1870, on being invited to take charge of the Ecole 

 dE'gyptologie and the Boulak Museum in Cairo. 

 After serving as Egyptian commissioner at the Uni- 

 versal Exposition in Vienna in 1873 he was made a 

 bey by the Khedive. He delivered lectures in the 

 university at Berlin in 1879. In 1881 he received the 

 title of pasha. He revisited Persia in 1884, and after 

 issc, lived in Berlin, where he lectured on Egyp- 

 tology. Brugsch Pasha was the author of many im- 

 portant works on Egyptian history, antiquities, and 

 hieroglyphics, chief of which is the " Demotic and 

 Hieroglyphic Dictionary." Others are a " History of 

 Egypt,'* a "Demotic Grammar," "Materials for the 

 Reconstruction of the Calendar of the Ancient Egyp- 

 tians," and u The Geographical Inscriptions of the 

 Old Egyptian Monuments." Shortly before his death 

 he published " My Life and My Wanderings." 



Billow, Hans Gnido von, a German musician and com- 

 poser, born in Dresden, Jan. 8, 1830; died in Cairo. 

 Egypt, Feb. 12, 1894. He was the son of an author, 

 who had him taught the piano in his childhood. At 

 the age of eleven he was studying the theory of music, 

 and in 1846 he began to play in public while still 

 going to schorl. After he had studied law in Leip- 

 sic and Berlin he determined, in 1850, to follow music 

 as a profession after hearing a performance of 1 ' Lohen- 

 grin" given under the direction of Liszt at Weimar. 

 He studied the piano with Liszt for two years, and 

 then made a concert tour through Germany, receiv- 

 ing a flattering recognition. In 1854 he became 

 teacher of the piano in the Stern Conservatory. In 

 1*'H he was appointed by Wagner's advice director 

 of the royal opera at Munich, where he organized a 

 special company and orchestra, and obtained fitting 

 appliaiicc-s and scenery for rendering the Wagnerian 

 operas and introducing his latest ones, " Tristan" and 

 the " Mcistersingcr" He contributed a great deal to 

 the polemics of the controversy over the "music of 

 the future." After !*)'. his wife, who was Liszt's 

 daughter, having separated from him to become the 

 wife of Wairner, lie became a wanderinir musician, 

 giving piano recitals and orchestral concerts in Eu- 

 rope and America, lived for two years in Florence, 

 was chapel master at Meiningen from 1880 to 1885, 

 and latterly lived in Hamburg. His principal com- 

 positions are " Nirvana, "a symphonic tone picture; 

 music to Shakespeare's "Julius C;esar"; " The Min- 

 strel's Curse"; and "II Carnovale di Milano." 



Burdeau. Augnste, a French politician, born in I. von 

 Sept. 10, 1851 ; died in Paris, Dec. 12, 1894. He was 



apprenticed to a blacksmith, and by studying nights 

 was able to win a scholarship in the Lyceum Louis 1.- 

 Grand, from which he passed with honors into the 

 normal school. In 1870 he volunteered and served 

 through the war. being seriously wounded. Com- 

 pleting his studies after the war was over, he was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Philosophy at St. Etiemie, and 

 afterward at Nancy. In 1879 he founded the" Corre- 

 spondence Universitaire " as an organ of strong 

 Liberalism. He was a contributor at "the same time 

 to the " Revue des Deux Mondes " and the " Revue 

 Philosophiqiie," and published works on jurispru- 

 dence and philosophy, and was the translator of Her- 

 bert Spencer and of Schopenhauer. Paul Bert notice. I 

 him. and when Minister of Education selected him, 

 in 1881, to be chief of his bureau. In 1885 lie was 

 elected to the Chamber in Lyons as an Opportunist. 

 He rapidly became a leading member of his party. 

 In 1890 he was one of the FrencJi representatives jit 

 the International Labor Conference in Berlin. In 

 189-2 he succeeded Cavaignac as Minister of Marine 

 and the Colonies in the Loubet -Cabinet. lie was ad- 

 mired for his resolute handling of the Dahomey diffi- 

 culty. He resigned in January, 1893, but returned to 

 office in December as Minister of Finance in the 

 Cabinet of Casimir-Perier. On July 4, 1894, he was 

 elected president of the Chamber. 



Buss. Prances Mary, an English educator, born in 

 London, in 18-27; died theiv, Dec. 24, 1894. Her 

 father was a painter and etcher, her mother a teacher, 

 whom she assisted while following advanced studies 

 in Queen's College. Her school developed into the 

 North London Collegiate School for Ladies, which 

 took the first rank as a superior school for girls. 

 After the Cambridge examinations were opened to 

 women, in 1863, her pupils won many successes. The 

 Camden School for Girls was established and affili- 

 ated with her older school, and both were endowed 

 by the Brewers' Company of London and enabled to 

 oif'er a liberal education such as girls had not within 

 their reach before. They were the models on which 

 other schools were formed, and furnished a large con- 

 tingent of the pupils and honor students in Girton 

 College, Cambridge, and the London University ex- 

 aminations. Miss Buss was not only a pioneer, but 

 an active worker and organizer in schemes for the 

 higher education of women and the improvement of 

 educational methods. 



Cain, Auguste, a French sculptor, born in Paris in 

 ls-22 ; died there, Aug. 7, 1*94. He was the son of a 

 poor soldier, and was apprenticed to a decorator and 

 Avorkecl with him six years, when Rude took him into 

 his studio, where his fellow-students, most of them as 

 poor as himself, became very fond of him. He next 

 studied with Barye, then Professor of Drawing at the 

 Jardin des Plantes, who introduced his pupil to manu- 

 facturers, who bought his models for small bronze 

 pieces that were full of life. He attracted the atten- 

 tion of Mene, the popular animal artist, whose daugh- 

 ter he married in 1852, after he had won a third medal 

 at the Salon. His ambition was to make large dec- 

 orative architectural pieces. It was not till he exhib- 

 ited the " Lioness of the Sahara," in 1864, that his fame 

 spread abroad. lie exhibited the"Vautour Fauve" 

 in 1865, the " Renard " in 1S67, his " Tigre au Croco- 

 dile " in 1869, his "Lion et Lionne se disputant un 

 Sanglier"in 1875, his " Famille de Tigres"in 1*76. 

 He produced groups of dogs and of other animals, one 

 representing a rhinoceros attacked by tigers, that 

 decorate the public parks of Paris. 



Cameron, Verney Lovett, an English explorer, born in 

 Weymouth,in 1*44; died in Leighton Buzzard, March 

 28, 1894. He was the son of a clergyman, and in 

 1*57 entered the navy, becoming a midshipman in 

 1*60. He served with' distinction in the Abyssinian 

 campaign of 1868, was promoted a commander in 

 1*76, and was retired with the rank of captain in 

 is'.il. He was selected to lead the expedition that 

 set out from /anzihar on March 18. 1873, to relieve 



