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Rh was established. Among its members were Laboulaye, De Rémusat, Waddington, Henri Martin, De Lesseps, De Rochambeau, Lafayette, and Bartholdi. The plan of Bartholdi having been approved, more than 1,000,000 francs were raised by subscription throughout France for the building of the statue. On 4 July, 1880, it was formally delivered to the American minister in Paris, the event being celebrated by a great banquet. Meanwhile the United States had set apart Bedlow's island as a site for the monument, and funds were collected throughout this country for the building of the pedestal, about $300,000 being raised. In October, 1886, the structure was presented to the nation as the joint gift of the French and American people. This statue is 151 feet and 1 inch high, and the top of the torch will be at an elevation of 305 feet 11 inches from mean low-water mark. It is the largest work of its kind that has ever been completed.

The famous &ldquo;Colossus of Rhodes,&rdquo; according to the proportions which the legends attribute to it, was but a miniature in comparison. The &ldquo;Lion of Belfort,&rdquo; a colossal statue, erected in commemoration of the siege sustained by that city during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-'1, was made by Bartholdi and exhibited in plaster at the salon of 1878. His &ldquo;Gribeauval,&rdquo; exhibited in the same year, is the property of the French nation, from whom he has received the cross of the legion of honor. See &ldquo;Bartholdi and the Great Statue&rdquo; (New York, 1886).

BARTHOLOMEW, Edward Sheffield, sculptor, b. in Colchester, Conn., in 1823 ; d. in Naples, Italy, 2 May, 1858. As a child he evinced a taste for art, but" qualified himself to be a dentist and began to practise that profession in Hartford. He soon abandoned it, however, first for painting and afterward for sculpture, in which latter branch he attained eminence. He had charge of the Wadsworth gallery, Hartford, from 1845 till 1848. After studying for a year in the national academy of design. New York, he went to Italy, and after 1850 made Rome his home. Among his best-known works are "Blind Homer led by his Daughter"; "Eve"; "Campagna Shepherd Boy": "Genius of Painting"; "Youth and Old Age"; "Evening Star"; "Eve Repentant"; "Washington and Flora "; " A Monument to Charles Carroll"; "Belisarius at the Porta Pincinia" and "Ganymede." The Wadsworth gallery, Hartford, Conn., contains a large number of his works.

BARTHOLOW, Roberts, physician, b. in Howard co., Md., 18 Nov., 1831. He was graduated at Calvert College in 1850, and received his medical degi-ee from the University of Maryland in 1852. Shortly after graduation he entered the regular army, where he remained until 1864. He served at the different army stations in the west, and during the civil war was in charge of general hospitals in Baltimore, Washington, and elsewhere. After his resignation he settled in Cincinnati, where he practised, and also filled various chairs in the medical college of Ohio from 1864 to 1878. In 1878 he became professor of materia medica and therapeutics in Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia. He is a member of various medical societies, among which are the American medical association, the Ohio state medical society, and the Cincinnati academy of medicine. Dr. Bartholow's medical works include the following: "Materia Medica and Therapeutics" (New York, 1874) ; "Practice of Medicine " (1879); "Hypodermatic Medication " (1882) ; "Medical Electricity" (1881); and "Antagonism between Medicines and between Remedies and Diseases " (1881).

BARTLETT, Elisha, physician, b. in Smithfield, R. I., in 1805 ; d. there, 18 July, 1855. He was graduated in medicine at Brown in 1826, and practised in Lowell, Mass. He lectured on pathological anatomy at the Berkshire medical institute in Pittsfield, and in 1839 at Dartmouth college. He was professor in Transylvania college, Lexington, Ky., in 1841, and then successively in the university of Maryland, at Lexington again, in Louisville, and in the university of New York, and after 1851 in the college of physicians and surgeons in New York, where he filled the chairs of materia medica and medical jurisprudence. He also lectured in the Vermont medical college from 1843 to 1852. He was the author of an "Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science" (Philadelphia, 1844); "Inquiry into the Degree of Certainty in Medicine" (1848); "A Discourse on the Life and Labors of Dr. Wells, the Discoverer of the Philosophy of Dew" (1849); "The Fevers of the United States" (1850); "Discourse on the Times, Character, and Works of Hippocrates" (1852); and a volume of poems entitled " Simple Settings in Verse for Portraits and Pictures in Mr. Dickens's Gallery " (1855). He was editor of the "Monthly Journal of Medical Literature," published at Lowell.

'''BARTLETT. Ichabod''', lawver, b. in Salisbury, N. H., 24 July, 1786; d. in Portsmouth. N. H., 19 Oct., 1853. He was graduated at Dartmouth college in 1808, and admitted to the bar in 1811. He practised for a few years at Durham, N. H., but in 1816 removed to Portsmouth, where he soon attained a high rank in his profession, although having for his competitors such men as Webster and Mason. He was an officer of the state militia, and in thirty-two years was seven times elected to the legislature, of which he was speaker in 1821. He was clerk of the state senate in 1817-'8, and solicitor of Rockingham county from 1819 till 1821. He was elected to congress as an anti-democrat in 1823, and twice re-elected, serving until 3 March, 1829. and being a member of the committee on naval affairs. On the establishment of the New Hampshire court of common pleas, in 1825, he was appointed its chief justice, but declined, preferring to remain in congress. He was nominated for governor by the whigs in 1832, but defeated, and in 1850 a member of the convention that adopted a new state constitution.

BARTLETT, John, editor, b. in Plymouth, Mass., 14 June, 1820. He was educated in his native town, and began business life as a publisher in Cambridge, Mass., in 1836, succeeding to the management of the business there in 1849, and con- ducting it for ten years. He was appointed volunteer paymaster in the U. S. navy in November, 1862, and served until July, 1863. A business connection was formed with the Boston publishing-