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Rh Greenwich and Meriden, Conn., at the latter date accepting the charge of Park street Congregational church, Boston. Mass. He also engaged in lectur- ing, and in the winters of 1869-'78 delivered Sun- day evening " talks " in Boston music-hall, which enjoyed considerable popularity. He resigned his pastorate in 1874, and since that time has engaged in business, preaching to independent congrega- tions. He has published " Camp Life in the Adi- rondacks" (Boston, 1868); " Music-PIall Sermons" (1870-'3); "Words Fitly Spoken" (1873); "The Perfect Horse " (1873) ; " Sermons delivered from Park Street Pulpit " (1874) ; " Adirondack Tales " <1877); and "How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney kept New Year, and other Stories" (1887).

MURRAY, William Vans, diplomatist, b. in Cambridge, Md., in 1702 ; d. there, 11 Dec, 1803. After receiving a classical education he went to London in 1783 and studied law in the Temple. He returned to Maryland in 1785, practised his profession, was in the state legislature, and in 1790 was elected to congress as a Federalist, serving in 1791-'7. He took an active part in the early legis- lation of that body, and had few superiors in eru- dition, eloquence, and skill in debate. He was appointed by Washington minister to the Nether- lands in 1797, and envoy to France by President Adams in 1799. In the latter mission he was asso- ciated with Oliver Ellsworth and William R. Davie, but the convention that was signed in Paris, 30 Sept., 1800. and put an end to the threatened diffi- culties between the United States and France, was mainly the work of Mr. Murray. He then returned to his post at the Hague, which he occupied till 1801. He published a pamphlet entitled " The Constitution and Laws of the United States," which was much commended.

MUSGRAYE, Sir Anthony, governor of New- foundland, b. in Antigna in 1828 ; d. in Brisbane, Queensland, 9 Oct., 1888. Musgrave entered the Inner Temple, London, in 1851, was appointed treasury accountant at Antigua in 1852, and was nominated colonial secretary there in 1854. In 1860 he was appointed administrator of the colony of Nevis, and in 1861 he was transferred to the island of St. Vincent in the same capacity. He was governor of Newfoundland from 1864 till 1869, and in the latter year became governor of British Columbia. He was nominated lieutenant- governor of Natal in 1872, and he was soon trans- ferred to the governorship of South Australia, which post he held till 1877, when he was trans- ferred to the island of Jamaica. In 1883 he was appointed governor-general of Queensland, Aus- tralia. Sir Anthony was nominated a companion of the order of St. Michael and St. George in 1871, and promoted for his official service to the knight commandership of that order in 1875. He mar- ried a daughter of David Dudley Field.

MUSGRAVE, George Washington, clergy- man, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Oct., 1804; d. there, 24 Aug., 1882. He was educated at Prince- ton and at the theological seminary there, but, owing to failing health, was not graduated. In 1828 he was licensed to preach, and after holding pastorates in Baltimore and Philadelphia he was corresponding secretary of the Presbyterian board of publication in 1852-'3, and of the board of do- mestic missions from 1853 till 1861, and from 1868 till 1870. He was a director of the Presbyterian national union convention in Philadelphia in 1807, that healed the rupture between the old- and new- school branches of the church. As chairman of the joint committee on reconstruction he reported a plan to the first reunited general assembly in Philadelphia, May, 1870. which was adopted. He was president of the Philadelphia Presbyterian alliance for evangelical work from its inception in 1869 till his death, and of the board of trus- tees of the PresVjyterian hospital. In 1837 he was chosen a director of Princeton seminary, and in 1859 he became a trustee of the college, retaining these offices until his death. Princeton gave him the degree of D. D. in 1845, and the University of Indiana that of LL. D. in 1862.

MUSGRAVE, Sir Thomas, British soldier, b. in 1737; d. in London, 31 Dec, 1812. He was captain of the 64th regiment, brevet major in 1772, and lieutenant-colonel of the 40th regiment on 28 Aug., 1776. in which year he accompanied Gen. Howe to this country. He was wounded in the battle of Pelhara Manor, 18 Oct.. 1776, and at Ger- mantown, 4 Oct., 1777, saved the day by throwing himself with five companies into the Chew house, where he successfully held the American forces at bay until the British columns rallied. He became colonel and aide-de-camp to the king and briga- dier-general in 1782, major-general in September, 1790, and general in April, 1802.

MUSSEY, Renben Dimond, surgeon, b. in Pelham, N. H., 23 June, 1780; d. in Boston, Mass., 21 June, 1866. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1803, and at the medical department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1809, and while a stu- dent subjected himself to an experiment that demonstrated the incorrectness of the theory that the human skin has no power of absorption. He practised in Salem, Mass., from 1809 till 1814, when he was made professor of materia medica and therapeutics in Dartmouth, holding tliis chair until 1820. He was also professor of obstetrics from 1814 till 1838, and professor of anatomy and surgery from 1822 till 1838. In 1831-'5 he lec- tured on anatomy and surgery in Bowdoin. He was professor of surgery in Ohio medical college from 1838 till 1852, and held the same chair in Miami medical college from 1852 till 1860, when he removed to Boston. In 1830 he proved what Sir Astley Cooper had said was impossible, that intra-eapsular fractures could be united, and was the first person to tie both carotid arteries. In 1837 he removed the entire shoulder-blade and collar-bone of a patient who was suffering from osteo-sarcoma, the first operation of the kind on record. Dr. Mussey was president of the New Hampshire medical society, and was an early la- borer in the temperance cause. Harvard gave him the degree of A. M. in 1806, and Dartmouth that of LL. D. in 1854. In addition to addresses, he was the author of " Health : its Friends and its Foes" (Boston, 1862).— His son, William Heberdon, surgeon, b. in Hanover, N. II., 30 Sept., 1818 ; d. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1 Aug., 1882, studied at Phillips Andover academy and was graduated at Ohio medical college in 1848, subsequently studying medicine in Paris. He returned to Cincinnati and made a specialty of general surgery. In 1855 he was surgeon to St. John's hotel for invalids, Cincinnati. He served in the civil war as a surgeon, became medical inspector with the rank of lieutenant-colonel on 14 June, 1862, and resigned on 1 Jan., 1864. He was appointed surgeon of the Cincinnati hospital on 15 April. 1864, and also in that year vice-president of the American medical association. In 1865 he was given the chair of operative and clinical surgery in Miami medical college, which post he held until his death. In 1876 he became surgeon-general of Ohio and president of the Cincinnati natural history society. He was president of the Cincinnati