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in 1840. His graduation essay was of such su- 

 perior merit that the Faculty took charge of 

 its publication. Dr. Van Buren next entered 

 the army, and served under Generals Wool and 

 Harney in Florida, and for a short time on the 

 Canadian frontier. In Florida his health broke 

 down under malarial poisoning, the ill effects 

 of which he felt all through life. In 1844 he 

 was stationed in the Meteorological Bureau 

 in Washington. The next year he went to 

 New York, and became assistant to Dr. Val- 

 entine Mott in the department of surgery. He 

 soon took high rank as hospital surgeon, as 

 teacher of anatomy and surgery, and as a fam- 

 ily practitioner. He was appointed one of 

 the surgeons to the Bellevue Hospital at its 

 organization in 1847, and in 1852 was made 

 surgeon, and afterward consulting*surgeon, to 

 the N"ew York Hospital. Later he became sur- 

 geon and consulting-surgeon to St. Vincent's 

 Hospital, and consulting-surgeon to the Wom- 

 an's, the Charity, and the Presbyterian Hospi- 

 tals. He was elected Professor of the Art of 

 Surgery in Bellevue Hospital Medical College 

 in 1868, where he lectured up to within a few 

 months of his death. He was also Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the New York Academy of Medicine, 

 President of the Pathological Society, and cor- 

 responding member of the Paris Soci6 te" de Chi- 

 rurgie. Dr. Van Buren translated and anno- 

 tated several valuable works in his chosen de- 

 partment of medical science, and published in 

 later life lectures on " Diseases of the Rectum," 

 and a text-book on " Genito- Urinary Surgery." 

 His reputation as a teacher was very great, and 

 his skill and judgment in surgical cases ranked 

 high. Dr. Van Buren married a daughter of 

 Dr. Valentine Mott in 1842. His wife and two 

 married daughters survive him. 



Washburn, Israel, an American legislator, born 

 in Livermore, Maine, June 6, 1813 ; died in 

 Philadelphia, May 12, 1883. His early educa- 

 tion was obtained at the public school, but af- 

 ter his fourteenth year he was in charge of 

 private tutors at home. He studied law, was 

 admitted to the bar in 1.834, and practiced with 

 fair success in Orono, Maine. During the years 

 1842-'50 he served in the State Legislature, 

 and in 1850 was elected to Congress as a Whig. 

 He was re-elected in 1852, 1854, 1856, and 

 1858. He served in Congress continuously 

 from Dec. 1, 1851, to Jan. 1, 1861, when he 

 resigned, having been elected the year previous 

 Governor of Maine. He was re-elected in 1861, 

 .but declined a third term. Subsequently he 

 was appointed Collector of Customs at Port- 

 land, Maine. He published in 1874 "Notes 

 Historical, etc., of Livermore, Maine." 



OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. Bam, Francisco, Span- 

 ish minister to the United States ; died by his 

 . own hand in New York, July 29, 1883, while 

 under depression of spirits produced by in- 

 insomnia. He was born at Puerto Real, near 

 Cadiz, in 1831. After studying law at Madrid, 

 he was at the age of twenty-three given a place 

 in the Department of the Interior. He lost 



the office upon the defeat of the O'Donnell 

 Cabinet, hut resumed it after the accession of 

 the Union Liberals in 1858. He was elected 

 a deputy for the district of Puerto de Santa 

 Maria in 1858, and held that seat for seven or 

 eight terms, taking a high rank as a parlia- 

 mentary orator. In 1868 he was associated with 

 Herrera as Director -General of the Admin- 

 istration. During the Revolution of 1868 he 

 advocated the candidature of the Due de Mont- 

 pensier for the throne. After the choice of 

 Amadeus he worked for the restoration of the 

 royal family in the person of Don Alfonso. 

 When the latter was proclaimed King, Sefior 

 Barca took the office of Sub-Secretary of the 

 Interior, which he resigned after a year and a 

 half, on account of his sympathies with the 

 Liberal Opposition. He declined several high 

 offices before accepting, in 1881, the post at 

 Washington. Sefior Barca was an advanced 

 Liberal. He published a " Dictionary of Politics 

 and Administration," and other works. 



Barrot, Ferdinand, a French politician, died 

 Nov. 13, 1883. He was born in 1806, de- 

 fended Louis Napoleon's accomplices in the 

 attempts at Strasburg and Boulogne, was Min- 

 ister of the Interior in 1849, and a Senator 

 under the empire. He was elected Life Sena- 

 tor as a Bonapartist in 1877. 



Boeresco, Basile, a Roumanian statesman, died 

 in Paris, Dec. 7, 1883. He was born in 1830, 

 the son of a poor peasant. He studied in Paris, 

 and returned to Bucharest with the degree of 

 doctor of laws in 1851. He soon acquired a 

 reputation as a practicing lawyer, but occupied 

 himself also with polities', and, as a member of 

 the commission appointed in 1858 to consider 

 the question of uniting Moldavia with Walla- 

 chia, advocated the union with success. He 

 was then appointed Minister of Justice by 

 Prince Cuza, and two years later Minister of 

 the Exterior. He opposed the Cogelniceano 

 ministry, and after the fall of Cuza was called 

 into Prince Charles's Liberal Cabinet as Minis- 

 ter of the Exterior in 1868. He worked ener- 

 getically to obtain the sanction of Europe to 

 Roumanian independence. When the Danube 

 question came up, he was driven from office 

 under suspicion of having entered into secret 

 engagements with Austria. 



Bonnechose, Cardinal de, Archbishop of Rouen, 

 died Oct. 28, 1883. He was born May 30, 1800, 

 of Protestant parents, and was a magistrate 

 before he joined the priesthood in 1830. He 

 became a cardinal in 1863, and defended in 

 the Senate the temporal power of the Pope. 

 He was distinguished as an orator. In his 

 charges of recent years he condemned the ec- 

 clesiastical policy of the republic, but in mod- 

 erate language. 



Burke, Thomas M., an Irish clergyman, born 

 in Galway, Ireland, Sept. 8, 1830 ; died in Dub- 

 lin, July 2, 1883. He went to Perugia, Italy, 

 in 1847, and became a Dominican. Thence he 

 went to Rome, and studied there for five years. 

 He returned to Ireland as a priest, and estab- 



