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266 him the degree of LL. D., and the emperor of the French invited him to the superintendeney of the imperial observatory at Paris. He finally accept- ed the chair of physics in the Virginia military institute. While connected with the institute he prepared and published " The Physical Survey of Virginia" (Richmond, 18G8) in connection with the establishment of through routes by rail, and of a great and free water-line uniting the east and west, and this again in connection with foreign com- merce by his familiar pathways on the sea. the per- fecting of a system of observations and reports of the crops of the world, tending to reduce the fluc- tuations and to destroy the oppositions of trade in the staple productions of agriculture. Subsequent- ly, with William M. Fontaine, he published " Re- sources of West Virginia" (Wheeling, 1876). In September, 1872, he addressed the Agricultural so- ciety of Norfolk, Mass., and in October the State agricultural society of Missouri, at its annual fair at St. Louis. He reached the Virginia military in- stitute on 23 Oct. quite ill, and lingered until 1 Feb., 1873, when he died. Besides the works mentioned, he published '' Letters on the Amazon and the Atlantic Slopes of South America " (Washington, 1853) ; " Relation between Magnetism and the Circulation of the Atmosphere," in the appendix to " Washington Astronomical Observations for 1846 " (1851) ; " Lanes for Steamers Crossing the Atlantic" (1854); and a series of geographies; " Manual of Geography : Mathematical, Civil, and Physical Geography " (1870) ; a " Physical Geogra- phy of the Sea and its Meteorology " (New York, 1853) ; and smaller works on geography. His life has been written by his daughter (London, 1888). — John Minor's son, Dabney Herndon, soldier, b. in Fredericksburg, Va.. 21 May, 1822, was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1841, and at the U. S. military academy in 1846, assigned to the mounted rifles, and brevetted 1st lieutenant for Cerro Gordo, Mexico, where he was severely wound- ed. For his services there he was also presented with a sword by the citizens of Fredericksburg and the legislature of Virginia. He was assistant professor of geography, history, and ethics at West Point from 1847 till 1850, assistant instructor of infantry tactics in 1850-2, and then served on frontier duty in Texas. In 1858 he was made su- perintendent of the Cavalry-school for practice, Carlisle, Pa. He was assistant adjutant-general in New Mexico from 1 June. 1860, till 24 May, 1861, then became adjutant-general in the Confed- erate army, and was sent to the Trans-Missis- sippi department in February, 1862, as chief of stafE to Gen. Earl Van Dorn, and promoted to brigadier-general after the battle of Pea Ridge. He led a division at Corinth, where he was made major-general, served in the operations around Vicksburg, and participated in the defence of Mo- bile, commanding the Department of the Gulf. On 12 May, 1865, Gen. Maury and the Array of Mobile were paroled prisoners of war under the terms of surrender made by Gen. Richard Taylor and Gen. Edward S. Canby. He organized the Southern historical society in 1868, and originated the movement for the reorganization of militia of the nation in 1878. In 1886"he was appointed U. S. minister to Colombia. He has published "Skir- mish Drill for Mounted Troops " (Washington, 1859). — Matthew Fontaine's cousin, Ann, author, b. in Liverpool, England, in September, 1803 ; d. in New York city in January, 1876, was the daugh- ter of James Maury, U. S. consul to Liverpool, in 1789-1837. She was a descendant of Rev. James Fontaine, whose autobiography, with other family manuscripts and an original journal of travels in Virginia and New York in 1715-16, she published under the title of " Memoirs of a Huguenot Fam- ily " (New York, 1853). The appendix of this book contains a translation of the edict of Nantes and other historical documents. — Her sister-in-law, Sarah Mytton, author, b. in Liverpool, England, 1 Nov., 1803 ; d. in Virginia in October, 1849, was graduated at a school in Liverpool in 1821. Her maiden name was Hughes and she married Will- iam, the eldest son of James Maury. She came tO' the United States in 1846 on a packet-ship that was crowded with steerage passengers, among whom the small-pox had broken out on the third day from Liverpool. Upon her arrival she labored success- fully for the passage of an act of congress requir- ing that sanitary provision should be made on emigrant vessels, and on her return to England she procured the passage of a similar act of par- liament. She was the author of " Etchings from the Caracci " (Liverpool, 1842) ; " The Englishwo- man in America " (1846) ; " The Statesmen of Amer- ica in 1846" (Philadelphia, 1847); and "Prog- ress of the Catholic Church in America " (1847). — Dabney Herndon's third cousin, Francis Fon- taine, surgeon, b. in Danville, Ky., 9 Aug., 1840;. d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 4 June, 1879. He was. graduated at Centre college, Ky., in 1859, and at- tended lectures at the medical department of the University of Virginia, and Jefferson medical col- lege, Philadelphia, from which he received his. degree in 1862. He practised in Philadelphia, de- voting his attention to surgery. Among his op- erations were a successful amputation at the hip- joint, the first operation for gastrotomy in this- country, for stricture of the cjesophagus, excision of the brachial plexus of nerves for painful neu- roma of the skin, for exstrophy of the bladder,, and two extirpations of the thyroid gland. For two years he edited the " Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery," and he published numer- ous reports of medical and surgical cases. He- was a surgeon to Jefferson medical college hos- pital, and the Philadelphia hospital, and during- the civil war had charge for a time of an army hospital. For many years he was a lecturer on venereal and cutaneous diseases in Jefferson medi- cal college, and was a fellow of the College of physi- cians, and a member of other medical societies.

MAVERICK, Peter, engraver, b. in New York city, 22 Oct., 1780 ; d. there, 7 June, 1831. His father, Peter R. Maverick, was originally a silver- smith, but became an etcher and engraver, and did much to aid the early progress of his art in this- country. The son studied under his father and also became eminent as an engraver, working chiefly for book-publishers and bank-note com- panies. He instructed many pupils, among whom was Asher B. Durand, and in 1817 he formed a partnership with Mr. Durand. but it continued only a few years. Mr. Maverick was a National academician, having been one of the founders of the academy in 1826. Among his line-engravings- are portraits of Henry Clay, from the painting by Charles King (Washington, 1822); Bishop Benjamin Moore, from that by William Dunlap (New York,. 1823) ; and Andrew Jackson, from the fine portrait bv Samuel L. Waldo.

MAVERICK, Samuel, colonist, b. in England about 1602; d. about 1670. His father, John, known as the " godly Mr. Maverick," came to this country in 1630, and was one of the original pastors of the first church in Dorchester, Mass. Samuel arrived in New England several years before his- father, settling as early as 1629 at Noddle's island