ately to Paris and spent several months in reviewing his physiological studies. In 1858 he accepted the chair of Physiology in the Berkshire (Mass.) Medical Institution. In 1862 Dr. Styles, impelled by patriotic motives, entered the United States service as Surgeon of Volunteers. He was ordered at first to the charge of a general hospital at Pittsburg, Pa., but subsequently was transferred to the Army of the Potomac as surgeon-in-chief of Caldwell's division, Hancock's corps, in which position he participated in all the movements of the arduous campaign of 1868. The following year he left the service and accepted the appointment of resident physician of the Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn. Upon the organization of the Metropolitan Board of Health in 1866 he accepted the office of Deputy Registrar of Vital Statistics, and in 1868 was made Assistant Sanitary Superintendent, holding the two positions until the Board of Health was dissolved in 1870. In the summer of this year, his health failing him, he traveled in Europe to some extent, but received no permanent benefit.

April 18.-WATSON, Commodore JAMES M., U.S. N.; died at Vallejo, Cal. He was a native of Virginia, from which State he was appointed February 1, 1823; saw seventeen years of sea-service, his last cruise being in 1854; and was unemployed nearly fourteen years. In 1855 he was retired on the rank of lieutenant. In 1866 he was light-house inspector.

April 19.--ARMSTRONG, Captain JAMES F., U. S. N.; died in New Haven, Conn., aged 56 years. He was a native of New Jersey, from which State he was appointed March 7, 1832. In 1868 he was in command of the Navy-Yard at Pensacola. His last cruise was in 1864. He was on the reserve list for a time, but was reinstated again, and in 1871 was on duty at the Navy-Yard, Mare Island, California.

April 19.-BLISS, GEORGE, an eminent lawyer and politician of Springfield, Mass.; died there, aged 80 years. He was born in Springfield, November 16, 1793; graduated from Yale College in 1812; studied law with his father, and entered upon the practice of his profession in 1815 at Monson, Mass., where he remained seven years. Returning to Springfield, he entered into partnership with Jonathan Dwight, Jr., and in 1827 commenced public life as a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, serving three successive terms, and again in 1853, when he was Speaker. In 1835 he was President of the State Senate. Among many public enterprises which occupied his attention was the completion of the Western Railroad between Worcester and Albany, of which road he was president prior to 1846, when he retired, and visited Europe. Upon his return home he became interested in other railroad schemes, chiefly at the West, in conducting which he gained a wide reputation. In May, 1860, he withdrew from all active business.

April 20.-LANDON, DILLON STEVENS, M. D., an eminent physician of Brooklyn, L. I.; died there, aged 51 years. He was a man of fine intellectual qualifications, skillful in the practice of his profession, and greatly beloved by his medical associates as well as patients. For a period of twenty years he was visiting physician of the Brooklyn City Hospital. Dr. Landon was a son-in-law of the late J. Wesley Harper, of Harper & Brothers.

April 20.-STODDARD, CHARLES, an eminent merchant and Christian philanthropist of Boston; died there, aged 71 years. He was born at Northampton, June 27, 1802, and was the son of Solomon Stoddard, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years clerk of the courts. In 1814 young Stoddard went to Portsmouth and spent two years with an uncle, but, in 1816, returned to Boston and entered the store of Tappan & Mansfield, silk merchants, with whom he remained until his majority. In 1828 he went into business for himself, establishing the firm of Edwards & Stoddard, which was dissolved in 1845, himself going into the firm of Stoddard, Lovering & Co. In 1832 he became a member of the Prudential Committee of the American Board of Missions, which place he occupied for forty years, during all of which time he negotiated the foreign exchange of the board without remuneration. He was also for thirty-three years an efficient trustee and liberal friend of Williams College, Mass., and since 1853 had devoted the whole of his income to public and private charity. He was a man of the strictest integrity, most unblemished honor, and noble impulses.

April 22.-WHITTLESEY, ELIJAH, a retired merchant of New York City; died at Wallingford, Conn. He had been thirty-five years in business, and was widely known for his liberality and literary culture, and owned one of the finest libraries in Connecticut.

April 24.-Olyphant, GeorgE TALBOT, an eminent merchant, of New York; died in that city, aged 54 years. He was born in New York, June 29, 1819. On account of feeble health he was taken from school at an early age, and never received a collegiate education, though he devoted much attention to classical studies. After a short business experience in the establishment of his father in New York City, he removed to Mount Morris, in the Genesee Valley, and was there engaged in agricultural pursuits for about ten years. It was in this section of the State that he acquired a considerable reputation in political life, and in the campaign of 1844 Henry Clay had few more ardent advocates. In 1849 Mr. Olyphant sailed for China for the purpose of recruiting his health, returning in the same year. Again in the following year he repeated his trip, and was returning to America when his father, who accompanied him, died in Egypt. In 1850 he united in forming the firm known as Olyphant's Sons, engaged in a very extensive China trade. In 1858 he retired from active mercantile life. He was elected a mem

ber of the Board of Managers of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company in March, 1852, and remained in that position till April, 1855. In that month he was chosen president of the company, pro tem., and in 1858 he was elected the permanent president of the company. He continued acting in that capacity till April, 1869. Among the prominent institutions with which Mr. Olyphant was connected may be mentioned the New York City Hospital. He became one of the governors in 1853, and ever afterward took an active and zealous interest in the management of its affairs. He was constant in his efforts to improve the con dition of affairs at Bloomingdale Asylum, and made almost weekly inspections of that institution. At the recent reorganization of the Erie Railway, Mr. Olyphant was made one of the directors of the company.

April 26.-BROWN, Lieutenant GEORGE EDGAR, U. S. Volunteers, a lawyer of Washiington, D. C.; died there, aged 31 years. He was born in Hampden, Me., November 1, 1841; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1862, and in October of that year entered the army as sergeant of the Twenty-second Maine regiment, was promoted to be first-lieutenant, and served on the Mississippi. At the close of the war he held a position in the Patent-Office two years, and after studying law entered upon the practice of his profession in Washington.

April 26.-HowE, Lieutenant ALBION, U. S. A.; was killed by the Modocs in the Lava Beds. He was a son of Colonel Marshall E. Howe, U.S. A., and was born in Jacksonville, Fla., May 16, 1840. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1861, was mustered into the Fourteenth N. Y. Artillery as second-lieutenant; served through the campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg, received a staff appointment, and rose to the rank of major. At the close of the war he held a position in the custom-house at Boston. In 1866 he was commissioned second-lieutenant in the Fourth Artillery, U. S. A., and in 1869 was promoted first-lieutenant, having previously been brevetted lieutenantcolonel of volunteers and captain in the U. S. Army for gallantry during the war. He served as ordnance-officer at Fortress Monroe, where he married a daughter of General Barry, commanding; was assigned to duty in North Carolina in pursuit of the Ku-klux gang, and afterward to duty on the Pacific.

April 26.-THOMAS, Captain EVAN, U. S. A., a gallant officer; was killed by the Modocs in the Lava Beds. He was a son of General Lorenzo Thomas, formerly adjutant-general of the army, and was born in Washington, D. C. He entered the army at the commencement of the late war, receiving the rank of second-lieutenant in the Fourth Artillery of the regular army, and was made first-lieutenant, May, 1861. He received the rank of captain by brevet, December 13, 1862; major by brevet, July 3, 1863, and captain, in August, 1864. During the fight with the Indians upon the 15th

and 16th, he had command of the mortars, rendering effective service in harassing the enemy.

April 26.-WICKS, ALFRED, a prominent citizen and philanthropist of Brooklyn, N. Y.; died there. He was a merchant, and a member of the Produce Exchange, and for many years had been identified with the interests of the city, and especially with its humanitarian movements.

April 26.-WRIGHT, Lieutenant THOMAS F., U. S. A., was killed by the Modocs in the Lava Beds. He was a son of the late General George Wright, and nephew of the late General Sumner; was born in Missouri, but migrated to California; served in the civil war as colonel of volunteers, receiving the brevet of brigadier-general; entered the regular army as first-lieutenant Thirty-second Infantry, July 28, 1866, and was assigned to the Twelfth Infantry, January 31, 1870.

April 27.-AULICK, Commodore JOHN H., U. S. Navy; died at Washington, D. C., aged 84 years. He was born in Winchester, Va., entered the navy as midshipman in 1809, and in 1812 served on the Enterprise in all the engagements of that vessel, carrying the British ship Boxer and the privateers Fly and Mars, which the Enterprise captured, into port. He afterward served on the Saranac, Ontario, Constitution, and Brandywine, and was in cominand of the Washington Navy-Yard from 1843 to 1846. He commanded the Vincennes in 1847, and the East India Squadron, his last cruise in 1853. In 1861 he retired on the rank of captain. Throughout his long career he was one of the most faithful and efficient officers in the service.

April 28.-WHITE, WILLIAM, a spiritualist and publisher of infidel works; died in Boston, Mass. He was the publisher of the Banner of Light, and numerous works on spiritualism.

April 29.-SHARKEY, WILLIAM, Governor of Mississippi; died at Washington, D. C. He was a prominent and influential man in that State, and was provisional Governor from 1865 to 1866.

April 29.-WATIES, JOHN, a civil engineer and lawyer; died in Columbia, S. C., aged 45 years. He was born in Statesburg, Sumter County, S. C., in 1828, graduated from Yale College in 1849, and, after devoting four years to civil engineering, turned his attention to the study of law, serving in the mean time as clerk of the Court of Appeals in his native State. From 1857 until his death he practised his profession in Columbia, with the exception of a period of service in the Confederate army during the rebellion.

May 1.-SHENFessel, Peter, a pioneer settler of Kentucky; died in Estill County, aged 109 years. He was born in February, 1764. He was long employed in the Red-River IronWorks, and was active and vigorous in mind and body till a few days before his death.

May 2.-SMITH, Commodore WILLIAM, U. S.

Navy; died at St. Louis, Mo. He was born in Kentucky, from which State he was appointed March 4, 1823, making about fifty years in the service. He was placed on the retired and reserved list January 9, 1865.

May 3.-BEACH, L. P., Surveyor-General of Washington Territory; died at Olympia, W. T. A man of fine and generous culture, he had held this important position since 1871, and was thoroughly devoted to the promotion of the best interests of the Territory. His reports were models in the fulness of their information respecting the productions and capabilities of that vast but little-known region.

May 3.-NOTT, Rev. HANDEL GERSHOM, a Baptist clergyman; died in Rochester, N. Y. He was born in Saybrook, Conn., November 10, 1799, graduated from Yale College in 1823, took a theological course in the Yale Seminary, and in 1826 was settled over the First Congregational Church in Nashua, N. H. Subsequently he became a Baptist, and accepted the position of agent of the American Bethel Society, and was for three years Bethel chaplain in Buffalo. Later he preached in Bath, Waterville, and Kennebunkport, Me., remaining at the latter place for a period of twelve years. His health demanding a change, he accepted a call to Avon, N. Y., in July, 1860, and, after a few years, removed to Rochester, where he continued to reside until his death.

May 5.-MCALLISTER, H. N., an eminent lawyer of Bellefonte, Pa.; died there. He was a prominent member of the Constitutional Convention of his State.

May 6.-STOUFFER, Captain George C., a brave and gallant sea-captain; died in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was famous for the rescue of the passengers of the steamer San Francisco in 1853.

May 8.-KING, Judge EDWARD, a Pennsylvania jurist; died at Philadelphia, Pa., aged 78 years. He was a native of Philadelphia, was admitted to the bar in 1816, and was President-Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1825 to 1851.

May 9.-PUMPELLY, GEORGE JAMES, a distinguished agriculturist and stock-breeder of Owego, N. Y.; died there, aged 68 years. He was born in Owego, December 11, 1805, graduated from Yale College in the class of 1826, completed the course of study at the Litchfield Law School, and in 1829 was admitted to the bar of New York City. He then entered his father's land-office, where he spent some years in the practice of his profession. About 1835 he turned his attention to agricultural improvements, and to the breeding of choice stock, in which he made great improvements.

May 10.-BIRGE, Rev. LEWIS M., a Presbyterian clergyman and home missionary; died at Minneapolis, Minn., aged 39 years. He was born at Vienna, Trumbull County, O., educated at the Western Reserve College, Hudson, O., and, after spending two years in teaching, entered Union Theological Seminary, from

which he graduated in May, 1862. In the fall of the same year he was appointed chaplain of the One Hundred and Seventy-third Regiment of New York Volunteers, and was three years in the service. A few months after leaving the army, he received a call from a church in Charlestown, Ohio, where he labored four months, and which charge he was obliged to relinquish on account of failing health. He then removed to Burlington, N. J., where, on a fruit-farm, he remained three years, during which time, however, he canvassed the county in which Burlington is situated, for the American Bible Society, and was also agent for the American and Foreign Christian Union. He preached also, occasionally, as opportunity offered and his strength permitted. Thence he removed to Paterson, N. J., where he was employed for about two years as city missionary. From Paterson he removed to Grand Rapids, Mich., as missionary of the Presbyterian Board, and the next year was appointed to the new section of country along the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad.

May 11.-BAILEY, Rev. JOSEPH A., D. D., a Baptist clergyman of Waterbury, Conn.; died at Carlsbad, Bohemia, aged about 47 years. Dr. Bailey was a man of fine culture, an eloquent preacher, very fond of literary research, and much beloved by his people. He had gone abroad in the hope of restoring his health, which had been seriously impaired by his excessive labors in the pastorate, but derived no benefit from the waters of Carlsbad, which to him, as to so many American invalids within the past few years, seemed to have proved rather injurious than beneficial.

May 12.-HARRIS, Lieutenant GEORGE M., U. S. A.; died from wounds received in the fighting at the Lava Beds, California, aged 26 years. He graduated from West Point in 1868, and was stationed at Fort Macon during the troubles with the Lowery outlaws. Subsequently, at his own request, he was transferred to Battery K, Fourth Artillery, and joined his company during the operations against the Modocs, in January last. He was a nephew of the late Bishop McIlvaine, of Ohio.

May 15.-GILMORE, Hon. SAMUEL A., President-Judge of the Fayette Judicial District, Pa.; died at Uniontown, Pa., aged 67 years. He had held that position since 1848, discharging the duties of his office in the most faithful and conscientious manner.

May 15.-SMITH, Mrs. MARY SNELL, a missionary of the American Board at Ceylon; died at Rocky Hill, Conn., aged 59 years. She was born in Cummington, Mass., September 21, 1814. In 1836 she was married to Dr. Steele, and soon after sailed from Boston for Madras. A few years after his death she married Rev. J. C. Smith, of the Ceylon mission, and was a faithful and energetic worker in the missionary field for a period of nearly thirtysix years. In 1872, upon the failure of her

own and her husband's health, she returned to this country.

May 16.-HUNT, Mrs. BERIAH, a centenarian of Randolph, Mass.; died there, aged 104 years, retaining her memory to her last hours.

May 17.-RUSSELL, WILLIAM, an eminent elocutionist and author of text-books in reading and oratory; died at Lancaster, Mass., aged 75 years. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, April 28, 1798, and was educated at the Latin School and the University of Glasgow. Soon after the completion of his studies, symptoms of a pulmonary affection induced him to come to this country, and, locating in Savannah, Ga., he took charge of the Chatham Academy in that city in 1819. A few years later, upon his marriage with a Connecticut lady, he removed to New Haven, Conn., and taught the New Township Academy and the Grammar School counected with Yale College. He next devoted himself to the instruction of classes in elocution in Andover, Cambridge, and Boston. From 1826 to 1829 he had the editorial charge of the American Journal of Education, published in Boston; but, his duties proving too arduous for his health, he was induced to take a school for young ladies in Germantown, Pa., and classes also in Philadelphia. Subsequently, he returned to Boston, resuming his specialty in teaching there and at Andover, lecturing in the Teachers' Institutes in Rhode Island and New Hampshire, and during the winter seasons lecturing at Princeton College, and in the cities of New York and Brooklyn. In 1849 he established a seminary for teachers in New Hampshire, which he continued to direct for several years, but the severity of the winters compelled him, in the spring of 1853, to move his seminary to Lancaster, Mass. The spring and autumn months he devoted to lecturing at the Teachers' Institutes in that State, under the direction of the Secretary of the Board of Education. Mr. Russell was the author of seventeen volumes of educational periodicals, and treatises and essays on general education, and twenty-six text-books, mainly on reading and elocution.

May 18.-WHITING, Mrs. MATILDA S., a missionary in Syria and Jerusalem for twentyfive years; died at Newark, N. J., aged 68 years. The first eight years of her missionary life were spent in Jerusalem, but subsequently she was transferred to Syria proper, where she remained until, in feeble health and widowed, she returned to this country. At the time of her death she was president of the Woman's Missionary Society, of Newark.

May 22.-FAGNANI, JOSEPH, a portraitpainter of great merit; died in New York. He was born in Naples, Italy, December 24, 1819, and began his professional life at the early age of sixteen years. Before completing his thirtieth year he won reputation by several crayon portraits, among the most remarkable of which was that of Baron Smucker,

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chamberlain to the Queen-dowager, mother of Ferdinand II. While very young, Fagnani entered the Royal Academy at Naples, and remained there until he was eighteen. Removing next to Vienna, he gained success in his painting of the Archduke Charles. 1842 he received and accepted a flattering offer from the Queen-Regent of Spain, Maria Christina, to make album portraits of the distinguished Spaniards who shared her exile. While under this engagement, Mr. Fagnani formed the acquaintance of Sir Robert Peel and Sir Henry Bulwer, laying the foundation of a strong and lasting friendship. In 1851, at the age of thirty-two, he came to New York City, where he married an American lady. In 1858 Mr. Fagnani revisited Europe. Hearing of his arrival, Queen Christina, then at Malmaison, sent for him to paint two portraits of herself, as well as likenesses of the Prince and Princess Ladislas Czartoriski. In 1860 he continued his industrious labors by painting two portraits of Richard Cobden. One of these was given by Fagnani to the New York Sanitary Fair, where it was bought by Morris Ketchum, who presented it to the New York Chamber of Commerce. The other was purchased by the National Portrait Gallery, London. Among the most noted of his works are, his portraits of Garibaldi, Victor Emmanuel, the Prime-Minister Ratazzi, and General Cialdini.

May 28.-WILLIAMS, Rev. LORENZO D., a Methodist clergyman and educator; died in Meadville, Pa. He was for many years Professor of Natural Sciences and Vice-President of Alleghany College. His death was caused by his being thrown from a carriage.

May 29.-ATWOOD, JOHN MULLIKEN, a merchant and philanthropist of Philadelphia; died at Hartford, Conn., aged 78 years. He was born in Haverhill, Mass., August 4, 1795, and was a brother of the well-known missionary, Harriet Newell. He studied one year in Haverhill, and then, deciding upon a mercantile life, went to Boston as a clerk, and in 1816 established himself in Philadelphia, the firm being Atwood & Co., and Atwood, White & Co. In 1864 he withdrew from business, and devoted a large share of his time thenceforth to public interests. He was one of the founders of the American Sunday-school Union, and on its committee of publication for more than forty years; and was also one of the founders, and for fifteen years president, of the Merchants' Fund, a noble charity, for the relief of unfortunate merchants.

May 30.-BEVERIDGE, Rev. THOMAS, D. D., a United Presbyterian clergyman; died at Xenia, Ohio, aged 77 years. For some years he was a professor in the Theological Seminary of the Associate Church at Canonsburg, Pa.

June 1.-BATES, Hon. ASHER B., an eminent jurist, crown adviser for fourteen years to the Hawaiian Government; died in San Francisco, aged 63 years. He was born in Leroy, N. Y.,

May 2, 1810. Having been educated for the law, he commenced the practice of his profession in Detroit, May, 1832. His high reputation as a jurist obtained for him the responsible position under the Hawaiian Government above mentioned, the duties of which he discharged with singular discretion for a period of fourteen years. Returning to his native country, he established himself in San Francisco, and three years subsequently received from the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, then ChiefJustice of the United States Supreme Court, the appointment of Registrar in Bankruptcy for the First Congressional District of California, a position which he held until failing health compelled his resignation in 1872.

June 1.-PAINTER, Rev. JOSEPH, D. D., a Presbyterian clergyman; died in Kittanning, Pa. He was a native of New Jersey, an alumnus of Princeton College, and for many years pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Kittanning.

June 2.-HODGEN, JULIA LEE, better known by her stage-name of "Leo Hudson," an actress of the opéra-bouffante school; died at St. Louis, Mo., aged 30 years. She was born in Leesburg, Va., March 22, 1843. While performing her specialty, Mazeppa, her trained horse, Black Bess, fell, and was so seriously injured, that it was necessary to kill her the next day. The actress attended her night and day, and the extra exertion brought on a fatal attack of brain-fever.

June 3.-PHILBRICK, STEPHEN G., a venera ble citizen of Tamworth, N. H.; died there, aged 102 years.

June 3.-WALWORTH, MANSFIELD TRACY, an American novelist; was killed by his son in New York City, aged 42 years. He was the son of the late Chancellor Walworth, and was born in Albany, in 1830. He graduated from Union College in the class of 1849, studied law, and, after his admission to the bar, practised his profession for a short time in Albany, with his father. Having a taste for literature, he soon abandoned his profession, and commenced writing for the Home Journal. Subsequently, he turned his pen to the preparation of sensational romances, among which were, "Lulu," Hotspur," Stormcliff," "Delaplaine," "Beverly," and "Warwick." At the time of his death he was writing for the New York Weekly a serial story, entitled "Married in Mask." He was possessed of an exceedingly unhappy disposition, which was aggravated by excesses, causing him to become a tyrant in his family, and finally resulting in his tragic death.

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June 3.-WHITON, WILSON, an eminent teacher of the deaf and dumb; died at Hingham, Mass. He was himself a deaf-mute, and was, for a period of forty-eight years, a successful and enthusiastic teacher at the American Asylum, in Hartford, Conn., a longer term than that of any other instructor in this country, save the late Lament Clerc.

June 4.-HUDSON, Judge United States Attorney for the Memphis District of Tennessee; died in that city. He was formerly a lawyer in Chicago, and removed to Memphis not far from 1865. He was a man of strict integrity, fearless and firm in the discharge of his official duties, and honored alike at the bar and in social life.

June 5.-BEEBE, Rev. SAMUEL J. M., a Presbyterian clergyman and educator; died in Nebraska City, aged about 60 years. He was a native of New York State, and an alumnus of Union College. In early life he removed to Missouri, where his abilities as an educator and scholar gave him a wide reputation. Early in the late war he removed to Brooklyn, where he established a school in Adelphi Street, and subsequently one on Clinton Avenue, both ranking high in merit. Having been urgently solicited to return to his former residence in Missouri, he went to Brunswick, in that State, and took charge of an institution there, which he resigned but a few months previous to his death.

June 6.-PRENTISS, Hon. JOHN, the oldest printer, newspaper editor, and publisher, in New England; died in Keene, N. H., in the 96th year of his age. Mr. Prentiss was, 35 or 40 years since, active in State politics; was State Senator about 1838, and served also in the Assembly. He was father of the late Commodore G. A. Prentiss. He continued to enjoy excellent health and strength to the close of life, and his mental vigor was unimpaired. He established the New Hampshire Sentinel in 1799, and conducted it for forty-nine years.

June 7.-RUSSELL, Rev. JOHN LEWIS, A. A. S., a Congregational (Unitarian) clergyman and scientist; died in Salem, Mass., aged 65 years. He was born in Salem in 1808, and graduated at Harvard University in 1828.

June 8.-MAUran, Joseph, M. D., an eminent physician and medical writer; died in New York City, aged 76 years. He was born in Barrington, Mass., December 22, 1796, graduated at Brown University in 1816, studied medicine in Providence, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, where he received the degree of A. M. in 1819, and commenced the practice of his profession in partnership with his preceptor, Dr. Pardon Bowen, in Providence. After thirty-six years of successful practice, he spent nearly two years traveling with his family in Europe, and on his return resumed it only to a limited extent, withdrawing from it altogether in 1866. During the active portion of his life he held many important positions, and originated various public measures connected with his profession. He was one of the medical attendants at the Dexter Asylum, and a consultingphysician at the Butler Hospital for the Insane, from the foundation of these institutions to his withdrawal from practice; was twice chosen President of the Rhode Island Medical Socie ty, was a trustee of the College of Physicians