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present at the battle* of Algiers, and served 

 afterward on the African station, whence he 

 returned home invalided in 1820. Having next 

 served on the North American station for three 

 years, he was selected in 1825 as assistant sur- 

 veyor to Captain F. W. Beechey, then about to 

 sail for Behring's Straits on his voyage of dis- 

 covery. In the next few years he was actively 

 engaged in Spain, Africa, South America, on 

 the Indian station, and in China, where he ob- 

 tained the thanks of the admiral in command 

 for his gallantry, especially at the reduction of 

 Canton. He was rewarded with a commission 

 as post-captain and the companionship of the 

 Order of the Bath in 1841, and was knighted 

 in 1843. From 1842 to 1849 he was engaged 

 chiefly on the East Indian station. His last 

 important naval employment was in command 

 of an expedition in search of Sir John Frank- 

 lin, which ended in the abandonment of his two 

 ships. He was nominated a Knight Commander 

 of the Bath in 1867. He wrote " A Voyage 

 round the World in H. M. Ship Vulture in 

 the Years 1836-'42," and a " Treatise on Nau- 

 tical Surveying." 



BELL, General Sir GEORSE, Knight, a British 

 general, born in 1794; died July 12, 1877. He 

 received his first appointment in 1811, and 

 served with the Duke of Wellington in the Pen- 

 insula. He was afterward employed in Ceylon 

 and the East Indies ; in 1837-'38 served in the 

 rebellion in Canada, and had command of a re- 

 giment in the Crimea. Toward the close of his 

 life he published a book entitled " Bough Notes 

 by an Old Soldier during Fifty Years' Service." 



BELLY, LEON AUGUSTE ADOLPHE, a French 

 painter of some note, died in March, 1877. He 

 mostly chose for his subjects scenes from the 

 Orient. Among his more recent paintings are 

 " The Nile near Rosetta," " The Canal of Mah- 

 moudieh near Alexandria," and a " Religious 

 Festival at Cairo." He received the medal of 

 the third class at the Exposition of 1867, and 

 was decorated with the Legion of Honor in 

 1862. 



BEETIN, LOUISE ANGELIQUE, a French paint- 

 ress, poetess, and composer, born January 15, 

 1805; died in the latter part of April, 1877. 

 She was the daughter of Louis Francois Bertin, 

 the founder of the Journal des Debate. She 

 composed the operas " Le Loup-garou " (1827), 

 "Fausto" (1834), and "Esmeralda" (1836; 

 words by Victor Hugo). She also published a 

 volume of poems, " Les Glanes " (1842), which 

 received a prize from the Academy. 



BETHMANN-HOLLWEG, MOEITZ AUGUST VON, a 

 German jurist, born April 10, 1795 ; died July 

 14, 1877. He studied law in the Universities 

 of Gottingen and Berlin ; went in 1819 as Pri- 

 vatdocent to Berlin, and was afterward ap- 

 pointed professor. In 1829 he went to Bonn, and 

 resigned in 1842. In 1845 he was named coun- 

 cilor of state, and in the following year was a 

 member of the General Synod of the Church 

 held in Berlin. He had been a member of both 

 Chambers of the Prussian Diet, and from 1858 



to 1862 was Minister of Public Worship. 

 Among his principal works are " Ursprung der 

 lombardischen Stadtefreiheit" (1846), "Ueber 

 die Germanen vor der Volkerwanderung " 

 (1850), and "Der Civilprocess des gemeinen 

 Rechts in geschichtlicher Entwickelung " (vols. 

 1-5, 1864-'74). His last was "Das 20. Buch 

 der Pandekten als Beispiel klassischer Juris- 

 prudenz fur Studierende erlautert" (1877). 



BIZZAEI, GIUSEPPE ANDREA, an Italian car- 

 dinal, born May 11, 1802; died August 27, 

 1877. He was created a cardinal in 18(53. 



BONAPARTE, Prince ANTHONY, born October 

 13, 1816 ; died in the latter part of March, 1877. 

 He was the third son of Lucien, Prince of 

 Canino, and his second wife, Alexandrine 

 Laurence de Bleschamp. 



BOURBEAU, Louis OLIVIER, a French Senator, 

 born March 2, 1811, died in October, 1877. 

 In 1847 he became maire of his native town, 

 Poitiers, and his administration during the 

 stormy period of 1848 was so firm and patri- 

 otic that he was elected a deputy to the Con- 

 stituent Assembly. Since 1841 he had been 

 professor in the faculty of law at Poitiers, 

 and in 1866 was elected dean of the faculty. 

 In 1869 he was elected to the Corps L6gislatif, 

 and a few months afterward was created Min- 

 ister of Public Instruction. After the estab- 

 lishment of the Republic, he devoted himself 

 exclusively to his duties as a professor, not re- 

 turning to public life until January, 1876, when 

 the department of Vienne elected him to the 

 Senate. In politics he was a Bonapartist, al- 

 though of a very moderate kind. 



BOUTELL, CHARLES, a British clergyman and 

 archaeologist, died in August, 1877. He was 

 educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and 

 graduated B. A. in 1834. He was shortly after 

 incorporated at Trinity College, Oxford. He 

 first became known as an antiquary by his 

 works, " Monumental Brasses and Slabs " 

 (1847), and "Monumental Brasses of England 

 and Wales " (1849). These were followed by 

 his " Manual of British Archaeology " and his 

 most successful book, " Heraldry, Historical 

 and Popular." In 1867 he published a more 

 popular treatise, "English Heraldry," and, in 

 1869, "Arms and Armor." 



BOVY, FRANCOIS ANTOINE, a Swiss engraver 

 of medals, born in 1803; died in October, 1877. 

 He studied under M. Pradier in Paris, and first 

 exhibited in the Parisian Salon of 1831. Among 

 his works, which are well known to collectors, 

 are " Le Jubil6 de la Reformation," Francois 

 Arago, The Empress, Cuvier, Napoleon I., Goe- 

 the, Liszt, Chopin, The Battle of the Alma, the 

 medal of the Exposition in 1855, and four 

 medals commemorative of the Exposition of 

 1867. He received a medal of the second class 

 in 1835, one of the third in 1855, and was dec- 

 orated with the Legion of Honor in 1843. 



BRAUN, ALEXANDER, a celebrated German 

 botanist, born M;iy 10, 1805; died March 29, 

 1877. He was at first Professor of Botany in 

 the University of Freiburg ; went, in 1850, in 



