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and King s College, London. He studied painting at the Eoyal Academy of Arts (1876-80), and exhibited at the Academy and elsewhere. He also studied zoology and anatomy at the Eoyal College of Surgeons. In 1884 he directed a scientific expedition, on behalf of the Eoyal Geo graphical Society, to Mount Kilimanjaro. He became Vice-Consul for the Cameroons in 1885, Acting Consul for the Bights of Benin and Biafra in 1887, Consul for Portuguese East Africa in 1889, Com missioner and Consul- General in British Central Africa in 1891, Consul-General for the Eegency of Tunis in 1897, and Special Commissioner to Uganda in 1899. He was created K.C.B. in 1896, and received the Gold Medal of the Eoyal Geographical Society in 1902 ; and he belongs to many learned bodies. In 1918 Sir Harry gave the Conway Memorial Lecture (On the Urgent Need for Reform in Our National and Class Education). He concludes his chapter on &quot; Science and Eeligion&quot; in the Ethical symposium, A Generation of Religious Progress (1916),

with the words: &quot;Let us serve Man

before we waste our time in genuflections and sacrifices to any force outside this planet&quot; (p. 29).

JONES, Ernest Charles, Chartist orator. B. Jan. 25, 1819. His father being equerry to the Duke of Cumberland, he was born and educated in Germany. On settling in England, he studied law, and was called to the Bar in 1844 ; but he did not practise. He joined the Chartists, and was one of their leading orators and writers. In 1848 he suffered two years in prison for a &quot; seditious &quot; speech, and he afterwards edited The People s Paper. In 1853, when the movement collapsed, he took to law practice and literature. D. Jan. 26, 1869.

JORDAN, David Starr, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., Chancellor of Leland Stanford University. B. Jan. 19, 1851. Ed. Cor nell University. He was instructor of 391

botany at Cornell from 1871 to 1872,. professor of natural history at Lombard University in 1872-73, principal of Apple- ton Collegiate Institute in 1873-74, teacher at Indianapolis High School in 1874-75,, professor of biology at Butler University from 1875 to 1879, professor of zoology from 1879 to 1885, president from 1885 to 1891, and president of Leland Stanford University from 1891 to 1913. He has been Chancellor since 1913. He has written many ethical and social as well as zoological works, and is one of the fore most champions of peace in America. He was Chief Director of the World s Peace Foundation from 1910 to 1914, and Presi dent of the World s Peace Congress in 1915. Dr. Jordan has sat on many Government Commissions, and belongs to a large number of learned societies. He is a Theist, but he believes that &quot; the creeds have no permanence in human history&quot; (The Stability of Truth, 1911, p. 44). See also his Religion of a Sensible American (1909). In 1909 he was Presi dent of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

JOUFFROY, Professor Theodore Simon, French philosopher. B. July 7, 1796. Ed. Pontarlier, Dijon, and Ecole Normale. He followed Cousin, his master, in philosophy, and after the 1830 Eeyolu- tion was appointed professor at the Ecole Normale. From 1832 to 1837 he was professor at the College de France. One of the most distinguished members of the- Eclectic School, a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Science and the Educational Council, he edited various works by representatives of the Scottish School, and wrote Melanges Philosophiques,. etc., in which his Pantheism is expounded.. D. Mar. 1, 1842.

JOWETT, Benjamin, M.A., LL.D., Hellenist. B. Apr. 15, 1817. Ed. St. Paul s School and Oxford (Balliol). He was, on account of his brilliant work,, elected a fellow of Balliol while he. 392