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Rh was one of $30,000 to establish a professorship of natural philosophy at Brown, and nearly as much to Columbian college, D. C, to establish a profes- sorship of intellectual and moral philosophy. He also endowed some scholarships in Brown univer- sity. His published works include " Callender's Century Sermon," edited with copious notes and sketches ; the " Works of Jonathan Maxcy, D. D.," first president of Brown university, with an intro- ductory memoir (New York, 1844) : and a " Life of Roger "Williams, the Earliest Legislator." The lat- ter work contains much original matter, particu- larly the letters of Mrs. Sadlier, daughter of Sir Edward Coke, to Roger Williams. — His second wife, Prothesia S. Goss, b. in England about 1800 ; d. there in 1867, wrote " The Philanthropist," " Spirit of Sectarianism," and " The Piedmontese Envoy, or the Men, Manners, and Religion of the Com- monwealth " (1844).

ELUYAR Y SUVISA (erroneously written D'ELHUYART), Fansto de (ay-loo-yar'-ee-soo- vee'-sah), Spanish chemist, b. in Log-roilo, Spain, 11 Oct., 1757 ; d. in Madrid in 1833. After studying in Spain, he went to Paris, devoted himself to natural science, and was appointed professor of mineralogy at the seminary of Vergara when he was scarcely nineteen years old. Two years afterward he was sent by the Royal basque society to make special studies in the mineralogical academy of Freiberg, Saxony, and in the mineral region of that country, whence he returned in 1781 to Vergara, and again occupied his chair. During 1783-4, by order of the government, he made scientific explorations of the mountains of Biscay and Navarra, and, in com- pany with his brother Juan (who was afterward director-general of mines in New Granada, and died there), analyzed the German wolfram ore, discover- ing the new metal called tungsten in 1785. In the same year he was sent by the Spanish government to study the new method of amalgamation, used by Born in Hungaria, where he remained two years, and married in 1786 the daughter of Maria Theresa's privy counsellor, Raab. In 1788 he went to New Spain as president of the royal supreme court of mines, taking with him twenty-five German miners, to teach the new method of amalgamation. He improved and enlarged the mines of Zacateeas, Guanajuato, Sombrerete, Bolaiios, Real del Monte, Regla, and Pachuca, and in 1793 established in the city of Mexico the Royal college of mines, taking the chair, of chemistry until a special professor could be obtained. During his presidency he es- tablished a complete chemical laboratory, a physi- cal cabinet, and collections of minerals and of models of machinery constructed in Mexico of beautiful native woods. Humboldt visited the col- lege in 1803, and admired its completeness and sci- entific merits. Eluyar's distinguished qualities were so much appreciated that, in 1797, when his term of nine years was about to expire, the junta general of the vice-royalty petitioned the king to reappoint him, with the rank of minister of the royal council of commerce, mines, and mints for New Spain. After the rebellion of Iturbide and the independence of Mexico, Eluyar returned to Spain, and was there appointed general director and member of the council of mines (1833), which place he held until his death. Eluyar was the in- ventor of a hydraulic machine and the author of several works on mineralogy, mining, and mints, the principal ones being " Descubrimiento de un nuevo metal hecho en el analisis del Wolfram " (printed by the Basque society) ; " Tratado sobre la nueva amalgamacion del concejero Born " (print- ed by the Mineralogical society of Germany); " Plan y distribucion para el Colegio Seminario de mineria de Mejico " ; " Memoria sobre noticias de minas " (1793) ; " Sobre una nueva maquina hidrau- lica del autor " (1805) ; " Discursos sobre la impor- taneia y subsistencia del Real cuerpo de la mineria en Nueva Espana " (1815) ; *' Disertaci6n sobre reeo- jer la moneda provisional, y sobre las casas de mon- eda provinciales " ; " Discursos sobre la mineria, su gobierno en general, su estado actual en Nueva Espana y su conveniente reforma" ; and " Indaga- ciones sobre el sistema de amonedacion observado en Nueva Espana, su actual estado y producto " (1818).

ELWYN, Alfred Langdon, philanthropist, b. in Portsmouth, N. H., 9 July. 1804; d. in Philadel- phia, Pa., 15 March, 1884. He was a grandson of John Langdon, the first continental governor of New Hanqjshire. Alfred was graduated at Har- vard in 1833, studied medicine abroad in 1834-'9, and, on his return, at the University of Pennsyl- vania, where he received his degree in 1831. Dr. Elwyn never practised his profession, but became widely known as a philanthropist. He was the originator of the Pennsylvania agricultural society and farm-school, and its president in 1850, and was also at various times president of the Pennsylvania institution for the instruction of the blind, of the Training-school for feeble-minded children, and of the Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. He published " Bonaparte," a poem (Philadelphia, 1848) ; " Glossary of Supposed Americanisms " (1860) ; " Letters to the Hon. John Langdon, dur- ing and after the Revolution " (1880) ; " Melancholy, and its Musings" (1881); and "A Few Hints to the City on Intemperance."

ELY, Alfred, clergyman, b. in West Springfield, Mass., 8 Nov., 1778 ; d. in Monson, Mass., 6 July, 1866. He was graduated at Princeton in September, 1804, and elected a tutor in that college, where he remained one year. He then returned to West Springfield, entered on the study of theology, was licensed to preach in February, 1806, and ordained the following December. His pastorate was remarkable for its success as well as for lasting through his life. He was one of the earliest trustees of Amherst college, and in that office assisted in sustaining the institution in the difficulties and discouragements of its early history. He was elected in 1840 a corporate member of the American board of foreign missions. Several of his sermons have been published.

ELY, Alfred, lawyer, b. in Lyme, New London CO., Conn., 18 Feb., 1815: d. in "Rochester, N. Y., 18 May, 1893. He removed to Rochester, N. Y., in 1835, studied law, wasadmittetl to the bar in 1841, and began practice in Rochester. Mr. Ely was elect- ed to congress as a Republican in 1858, and served from 5 Dec, 1859, till 3 March, 1863. Pie went as a civilian spectator to the battle-field of Bull Run in July, 1861, where he was captured by the Con- federates and put into Libby prison, Richmond. After nearly six months' confinement he was ex- changed for Charles J. Faulkner, the American minister to France, who had been imprisoned for disloyalty. During his term of imprisonment he kept a diary, which was edited by Charles Lan- man, with the title " Journal of Alfred Ely, a Pris- oner of War in Richmond " (New York, 1863).

ELY, Ezra Stiles, clergyman, b. in Lebanon, Conn., 13 June, 1786 ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 18 June, 1861. He was graduated at Yale college in 1803, studied theology with his father, Rev. Zebuion Ely, and was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian church in Colchester, Conn., in 1806. He was then chaplain of the New York city hospital, subsequently pastor of the Pine street church,