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made at the suggestion of his colleagues, and it 

 was referred to the respective governments. The 

 British Government vetoed the presentation of 

 such a remonstrance, and so did the German Gov- 

 ernment. Lord Pauncefote was the senior British 

 delegate to the Peace Conference at The Hague in 

 1899. His work in drafting with Mr. Olney the 

 proposed Anglo-American arbitration treaty had 

 made him one of the greatest experts and enthusi- 

 asts on the subject of international arbitration. 

 To him and to the American delegates more than 

 to any others was due the successful outcome of 

 the conference, and it was at their suggestion 

 that a permanent arbitration tribunal was created. 



Peach, Edward, English army officer, born in 

 1865 ; died in December, 1902. His education was 

 obtained at King's College, London, and Sand- 

 hurst Military College, and he entered the army 

 in 1884, serving in the Burmese expedition of 

 1885-'86. He was gazetted captain in 1895, and 

 served on the northwest India fronties 1897-'98, 

 and in South Africa during 1897-'98. For bravery 

 in the latter service he was brevetted major. He 

 was the author of Savage Warfare, a work offi- 

 cially recommended to the army and subsequent- 

 ly adopted as a text-book for infantry training. 



Pollen, John Hungerford, English art critic, 

 born Nov. 19, 1820; died in London, Dec. 2, 1902. 

 He was educated at Oxford, studied art, and 

 while fellow of Merton decorated the ceiling of 

 the college chapel. Taking orders in the English 

 Church, he was for five years rector of Saint 

 Saviour's Church, Leeds, but later was one of the 

 followers of the second Oxford Movement to 

 Rome, and was appointed Professor of Fine Arts in 

 the Catholic University of Dublin. He was mar- 

 ried in 1855, and three of his sons became Roman 

 Catholic priests. He belonged to various archeo- 

 logical and art societies, and was official editor of 

 the South Kensington Museum. His published 

 writings comprise Decorative Art in it's Connec- 

 tion with Modern Science (1863); Ancient and 

 Modern Furniture and Woodwork in the "South 

 Kensington Museum (1874); The Trajan Column 

 (1874); Gold and Silversmith's Work (1876); 

 Furniture and Modern Woodwork (1876); and 

 Ancient and Modern Gold and Silversmith's 

 Work in the South Kensington Museum (1878). 



Pyevtsoff, Mikhail Vasilievich, Russian 

 geographer, born in 1843; died March 10, 1902. 

 He received his early education in a military 

 school, and finished in the academy of the general 

 staff. After completing his studies he remained 

 for fifteen years in the general staff at Omsk, 

 makmg important journeys in Dzungaria and 

 northwestern Mongolia. He was also connected 

 with the great Chinese surveys in 1880 for de- 

 termining the Russo-Chinese boundary-line. The 

 scientific results of the first two journeys were 

 published in the Memoirs of the West Siberian 

 Geographical Society. After the sudden death 

 of Prjevalsky, Pyevtsoff was made head of the 

 Tibet expedition, and in company with Roborov- 

 sky and Kozloff and the geologist Bogdanovitch, 

 he spent two years in eastern Turkestan and the 

 Gobi. The results of these expeditions were pub- 

 lished in 3 large volumes by the Russian Geo- 

 graphical Society. He also published an impor- 

 tant paper on the determination of latitudes 

 from the corresponding altitudes of stars, and 

 another on barometrical levelings. 



Rawlinson, George, English Orientalist, born 

 in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, England, Nov. 23, 

 1815; died in London, Oct. 6, 1902. He was a 

 yovinger brother of Sir Henry Rawlinson, the 

 Diplomatist and Oriental scholar, and was edu- 



ted at Oxford. He took orders in the Estab- 



lished Church and was appointed a fellow of Ex- 

 eter College in 1840. He was tutor in 1842, sub- 

 rector in 1845, and in 1859 was Hampton lecturer 

 at the university. Two years later he received 

 the Camden professorship of Ancient History at 

 Oxford. His friend Mr. Gladstone preferred him 

 to a canonry of Canterbury Cathedral in 1872. An 

 unfortunate indistinctness of utterance prevented 

 him from being effective as a public speaker, and 

 it occasioned some comment when in 1888 he ac- 

 cepted the living of All Hallows, Lombard Street, 

 London, with its annual income of 2,000, when 

 he already held a lucrative canonry and his 

 professorship besides. He, however, resigned the 

 Camden professorship the next year; but for 

 some years prior to his death his duties at All 

 Hallows were performed by proxy. Canon Raw- 

 linson was a sound scholar, and his historical 

 labors have been of great value to his genera- 

 tion. His writings in book form comprise an. 

 annotated edition of Herodotus, prepared with 

 his brother Henry and Sir George Wilkinson 

 (1858-'60); The Historical Evidences of the 

 Truth of the Scripture Records (1860); The Con- 

 trast of Christianity with Heathen and Jewish 

 Systems (1861); The Five Great Monarchies of 

 the Ancient Eastern World, the work by which 

 he will be longest remembered (1862-'67); A 

 Manual of Ancient History (1869); Historical 

 Illustrations of the Old Testament (1871); The 

 Sixth Great Oriental Monarch, or the Geography, 

 History, and Antiquities of Parthia (1873); The 

 Seventh Great Monarchy, or the Geography, His- 

 tory, and Antiquities of the Sassanian or New 

 Persian Empire (1876); The Origin of Nations 

 (1877); Saint Paul in Damascus and Arabia 

 (1877); Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther in Pulpit 

 Commentary (1880); History of Ancient Egypt 

 (1881); Exodus in Pulpit Commentary (1882- 

 '85) ; Religions of the Ancient World (1882) ; The 

 Antiquity of Man Historically Considered 

 (1882); The Early Prevalence of Monotheistic 

 Beliefs (1883); Egypt and Babylon from Scrip- 

 tural and Profane Sources (1884); Religious 

 Teachings of the Sublime and Beautiful in Na- 

 ture (1884); Bible Topography (1886); Ancient 

 History (1887); Ancient Egypt, in Stories of the 

 Nations Series (1887) ; Moses: His Life and Times- 

 (1887); A History of Phoenicia (1889); The 

 Kings of Israel and Judah (1889); Isaac and 

 Jacob: Their Lives and Times (1890); Ezra and 

 Nehemiah: Their Lives and Times (1891); Par- 

 thia, in Stories of the Nations Series (1893) ; and 

 A Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke 

 Rawlinson (1898). 



Renon, Emil Jean, French meteorologist, born 

 in Vendome, March 8, 1815; died in Pare St. 

 Maur, April 6, 1902. He spent two years at the 

 German universities, being especially attracted 

 by Gauss's lectures at Gb'ttingen. From 1839 to 

 1842 he was attached to the scientific commis- 

 sion of Algeria, and he published a Description 

 Geologique de l'Algria. He subsequently pub- 

 lished a similar general descriptive work on Mo- 

 rocco. He was active in founding the Societe 

 Mteorologique in 1853, was its secretary eleven 

 years, and was four times elected to its presi- 

 dency. He was one of the meteorological com- 

 mittee that established the Observatory of Mont- 

 souris. In 1872 he was officially appointed di- 

 rector of a laboratory of meteorology, an office 

 which he held until his death. The laboratory 

 was first located at Choisy le Roi, was soon 

 moved to Pare St. Maur, and on the establish- 

 ment of the Bureau Centrale de Meteorologie, 

 was finally located on the plot of ground as- 

 signed the bureau, where it still remains. In 



