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Rh Munoz was captured and shot, and his body was burned. He published a useful " Diccionario Nautico" (Santiago, 1850).

MUNRO, Henry, clergyman, b. in Inverness, Scotland, in 1780; d. in Edinburgh, 30 May, 1801. He was graduated at the University of St. An- drews, studied divinity at Edinburgh university, and in 1757 was ordained, and appointed chaplain to the 77th Highlanders, which he accompanied in •Gen. John Forbes's expedition to Fort Duquesne. , He was also at the capture of Crown Point, Ticon- •deroga, and Montreal in 1760, and preached a thanksgiving sermon to the victorious array on the hill behind the last-named city. He afterward served in the West Indies, but returned to this country in 1762 and settled in Princeton, N. J. He then took orders in the Church of England, !ind in the year 1765 became missionary at Yon- kers, where Col. Frederick Philipse had built a church. In 1768 he became rector of St. Peter's. Albany, and also acted, at Sir William Johnson's request, as missionary to the Mohawk Indians, whose language he spoke and whom he frequently visited. As an officer in the old French war, he acquired 2,000 acres of bounty land in Washing- ton county, N. Y., and attempted to settle it, but the Revolution interfered, and it was subsequent- ly sold by his son. Mr. Munro's church was closed by the Albany committee of safety in 1777, and he was imprisoned, but escaped to the British lines, and returned to Great Britain in 1778. In 1782 the University of St. Andrews gave him the degree of D. D. He married in 1762 Miss Stockton, of New Jersey, and, after her death, married, in 1766, Eve, only daughter of Peter Jay, who, with their son, remained in this country after Mr. Munro's flight to England. — Their only child, Peter Jay, jurist, b. in Rye, N. Y., 10 Jan., 1707 ; d. in Mamaroneck, X. Y., 23 Sept., 1833, was educated in New York, under the direction of his uncle, .John Jay, until his thirteenth year, when he accompanied the latter to Europe on his appoint- ment by congress to the mission to Spain, landing at Cadiz in Novem- ber, 1779. Mr. Jay remained in Spain, although not for- mally received as minister, until 1782, residing at Madrid. During this time Mr. Munro's education was carried on un- der Spanish mas- ters, and he be- came thoroughly versed in Spanish and French. In June, 1782, Mr. Jay left Spain with his family and went to Paris. During the peace negotiations, as well as after his trouble with Carmichael and Brockholst Livingston, his official secretaries, Mr. Jay committed many matters to his nephew in a similar capacity. Mr. Munro returned to New York with Mr. Jay on 24 July, 1784. He began at once the study of the law, and after a brief period was placed as a stu- dent in the office of Aaron Burr, whom Mr. Jay deemed the best practitioner of the day, and in due time was admitted to the bar. He soon acquired a lucrative practice, and from 1800 till 1826, when his health gave way, was one of the chief lawyers of New York. In 1821, with his cousin, Peter A. Jay. and Jonathan Ward, he was elected from Westchester county, where he had a country-seat, to represent that county in the Constitutional convention of that year. In that body Mr. Munro took an active part, being, by the appointment of its president. Gov. Tompkins, chairman of the ju- diciary committee. In 1826, while he was engaged in active practice, Mr. Munro had an attack of paralysis, and, though he partially recovered and lived for seven years afterward, he spent the resi- due of his life as a country gentleman.

MUNROE, Charles Edward, chemist, b. in Cambridge, Mass., 24 May, 1849. He was graduated at the Lawrence scientific school of Harvard in 1871, and, after acting as assistant to Prof. Wolcott Gibbs, was senior assistant in chemistry there till 1874. In 1872 he conducted the summer course of instruction in chemistry for teachers at Cambridge, which was the first of its kind. During 1873-4 he also lectured on chemistry at Boston dental college, and in 1874 he was called to the chair of chemistry at the U. S. naval academy in Annapolis, where he remained until 1886, also lecturing in St. John's college, Annapolis, in 1883-'4. He then accepted the appointment of chemist to the U. S. torpedo corps at Newport, R. I., where he still (1888) remains. In connection with his appoint- ment at the U. S. naval academy he was frequently called on by the national authorities to conduct special investigations, principally on explosives. These researches have appeared in scientific jour- nals both in the United States and Eui'ope, and have gained for him a reputation as the authority on that subject in this country. Tiie mineral cabinet at the naval academy was created by him, and he devised and carried into execution a course of post-graduate instruction for naval officers at the Smithsonian institution. He was employed by the U. S. coast and geodetic survey to examine the oyster-bearing waters of Chesapeake bay, and in 1882 was appointed a special agent by the U. S. census bureau to report on the building-stones of Maryland and Virginia. Prof. Munroe has been active in the Naval institute from its inception, and has held the offices of secretary, treasurer, and corresponding secretary. He is a member of the chemical societies of Berlin, London, and New York, and in 1887 was elected vice-president of the American association for the advancement of sci- ence for the chemical section. The titles of his scientific papers exceed 100 in number, and his •' Notes on the Literature of Explosives," issued periodically, now include fifteen numbers. He has also published an " Index to the Literature of Ex- plosives " (Baltimore, 1886).

MUNROE, John, soldier, b. in Scotland about 1796; d. in New Brunswick, N. J., 26 April, 1861. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1814, and entered the army as 3d lieutenant in the 1st artillery. He became captain, 2 March, 1825, was brevetted major, 15 Feb., 1838, for ser- vices against the Florida Indians, and became major of the 2d artillery, 18 Aug., 1846. He was chief of artillery to Gen. Zachary Taylor in July, 1846, brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry at Monterey, and colonel for Buena Vista. He was military and civil governor of New Mexico from October, 1849, till 1850, and was promoted lieuten- ant-colonel in 1856.

MUNSELL, Joel, printer, b. in Northfield, Mass., 14 April, 1808; d. in Albany, N. Y., 15 Jan., 1880. He established himself as a printer in Albany, N. Y., in 1827, was associate editor of the