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he was a leader of the Radical party. In 1880 

 he became a member of the imperial Reichstag. 

 Owing largely to his work in introducing a system 

 of drainage and sewage farms, Berlin is now one 

 of the most healthful cities in Europe. He at- 

 tracted students to his laboratory and lectures 

 from all parts of the world. As an illustration 

 of his. original methods, at his anatomical and 

 pathological demonstrations the specimens were 

 placed under microscopes, which were sent round 

 through the seats on a small trolley railroad, and 

 could thus be closely examined by each student 

 without any interference with the lecture. An 

 important innovation made by him was in autop- 

 sical work, which had previously been usually lim- 

 ited to an examination of the diseased part or or- 

 gan. He systematically examined the whole or- 

 ganism, and thus showed how wide-spread may be 

 the effects of a local disease center. Perhaps his 

 most famous scientific dictum was the now well- 

 known Omnis cellula e cclluld. He was essen- 

 tially a pathological anatomist and histologist. 

 In 1874 he became a member of the Royal Acad- 

 emy of Science of Berlin. He was a commander of 

 the French Legion of Honor, a foreign associate 

 of the French Academy of Sciences, and a foreign 

 member of the British Royal Society. Physically 

 he was short and spare in later years with gray 

 hair and piercing gray, spectacled eyes. His voice 

 was rather thin and weak; but, despite this, his 

 lectures were always well attended, his earnest 

 manner and his logical, incisive reasoning more 

 than counterbalancing the lack of oratory. " The 

 first time I saw Virchow," says a writer in the 

 London Times, " was at the great medical con- 

 gress held in London in 1881. At the opening 

 meeting the Prince of Wales and the Crown Prince 

 of Germany were present. Sir James Paget was 

 in the chair, supported by Sir William Jenner, 

 and the front rows of seats on the platform were 

 filled by men of the greatest eminence Pasteur, 

 Charcot, Huxley, Gull, Lister, and others. The 

 Crown Prince came in rather late, and as he 

 stepped across the platform to his seat by the 

 Prince of Wales he stopped for a moment to 

 shake hands warmly with a little gray man sit- 

 ting in the front row. It was Virchow, who may, 

 I think, truly be said to have been primus inter 

 pares. It was entirely characteristic of him that 

 when he entered himself, and was received with 

 a great outburst of applause, he reversed the fa- 

 miliar story of the senior wrangler who came for- 

 ward^and bowed when the people rose on the entry 

 of the Queen. It never occurred to Virchow that 

 they were applauding him, and he looked about 

 for the Prince of Wales. He was always the 

 same, absolutely simple and devoid of self-con- 

 sciousness." Last year, on his eightieth birthday, 

 he received congratulatory addresses from all 

 parts of the world at a scientific birthday 

 party held at the Pathological Museum in Berlin. 

 In behalf of the scientific bodies of England, Lord 

 Lister said on that occasion : " All these bodies 

 join in the recognition of your gigantic intellec- 

 tual powers, in gratitude for the great benefits 

 which you have conferred on humanity, and in 

 admiration of your personal character, your ab- 

 solute uprightness, the courage which has enabled 

 you always to advocate what you believed to be 

 the cause of truth, liberty, and justice, and the 

 genial nature which has won for you the love 

 of all who know you." Prof. Virchow's death was 

 primarily due to a fall on Jan. 3, 1902, from an 

 electric tram-car in the Leipziger Strasse, Berlin. 

 He fell heavily, and fractured the femur at the 

 hip. It was characteristic of him that he took 

 a great interest in the pathology of his own case, 



quite apart from its bearing on his recovery. He 

 declared, it is said, that, owing to his age, no os- 

 seous union would take place between the broken 

 ends of the bone, and was actually pleased when 

 subsequent skiagrams showed that his prophecy 

 was true. Virchow was once challenged by Bis- 

 marck because of the defeat of the Government 

 on a navy vote, and he had the courage to de- 

 cline the honor of being shot by the famous Prime 

 Minister. On receiving news of Virchow's death, 

 Dr. Guido Baccelli, the Italian Minister of Agri- 

 culture, sent the following appreciative message 

 to Berlin : " Wherever, the whole world over, 

 science and freedom, integrity and character, are 

 held dear, the highest honor will be paid to the 

 memory of Rudolf Virchow." 



Walsh, William Packenham, Anglican bish- 

 op, born in Mote Park, County Roscommon, 

 Ireland, May 4, 1820; died July 30, 1902. He was 

 educated at Trinity College, Dublin, ordained 

 priest in 1844, appointed curate of various 

 churches, and in 1872 canon of Christ Church, 

 Dublin. He became Dean of Cashel in 1873 and 

 was elected Bishop of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin 

 in 1878. He was at one time tutor to the late 

 Charles Stewart Parnell. He resigned his see, ow- 

 ing to old age, in 1897. Among his many pub- 

 lished works are The Moabite Stone (1874); 

 The Forty Days of the Bible (1874); The Angel 

 of the Lord (1876) ; Ancient Monuments and Holy 

 Writ (1878); The Decalogue of Charity (1882); 

 Echoes of Bible History (1886) ; and Voices of the 

 Psalms (1890). 



Wernery, Henri, French-Swiss educator, born 

 in 1859; died in October, 1902. He studied theol- 

 ogy with a view to entering the Protestant min- 

 istry, but the breadth of his religious views in- 

 terfered with his conscientious acceptance of a 

 pastorate, and after teaching French in Constanti- 

 nople and at the Protestant Gymnasium in Paris 

 k he was called to the chair of French Language and 

 Literature in the Academy of Neufchatel in 1889. 

 A year later he was invited by the State Council 

 of the Canton of Vaud to take the chair of French 

 Literature in the University of Lausanne. His in- 

 fluence exerted in poems and essays on the Litte- 

 rature Romande, appearing in various periodicals, 

 was felt far beyond the bounds of the university. 

 His latest writing was the Forspiel for the com- 

 ing centenary of Canton Vaud in 1903. 



Wig-ner, John Thomas, English Baptist cler- 

 gyman, died in London, Oct. 22, 1902, in his nine- 

 ty-first year. He was one of the best-known min- 

 isters iii his denomination, twice filling the chair 

 of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland. 

 He prepared for the ministry at Stepney College, 

 and began pastoral work in 1839; but as he had 

 been engaged in preaching several years prior to 

 that date, his ministry in reality extended over a 

 period of seventy-two years, his longest pastorate 

 having been at Lynn Regis. He also founded the 

 Baptist church a't Brockley, and was its pastor 

 for a quarter-century. He was the author-of >rv- 

 eral hymns, and edited the volume of Psalms and 

 Hymns so widely used by English Baptists. 



Wild, H. von, Swiss meteorologist, born in 

 Uster, Dec. 17, 1833; died in Zurich, Sept. 5, 1902. 

 He was director of the Central Meteorological Sta- 

 tion at Bern in 1863-'65, director of the Russian 

 meteorological service in 1868-'95, and president 

 of the International Meteorological Committee in 

 1882-'92. He was the inventor of a wind-vane 

 much used, and was editor of the Russian 

 Repertorium der Meteorologie. and author of 

 numerous works on meteorology and terrestrial 

 magnetism, the best known of which is perhaps his 

 Temperatur-Verhaltnisse des Russischen Reiches. 



