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 He is author of : 1. ‘Jephthah,’ a tragedy. 2. ‘Philonis Judæi Scriptoris eloquentlssimi libri quatuor jam primum de Græco in Latinum conversi,’ Antwerp, 1558, 4to. 3. ‘An exhortation to all menne to take bode and beware of rebellion,’ Lond. 1654, 12mo. 4. The Ecclesiastical Histories of Eusebius, Socrates Sozomen, Evagrius, and Theodoret, translated from the Greek into Latin, Louvain, 1570, 8vo, Cologne, 1570, 1581, 1812, fol. 5. 'Reasons why a Priest may not practice Physic or Surgery,’ MS. Fleming; see Peck's ‘Desiderata Curiosa,’ vol. i. ed. 1732, lib. vi. p. 50. 6. ‘Plutarcus de futili loquacitate,’ manuscript translated from Greek into Latin, and dedicated to the Princess Mary; the king's sister's afterwards queen. He translated ‘Apollinaris’ and other Greek authors. His character as a translator does not stand high. Valesius says that his style is impure and full of barbarisms and sentences confused, and that he often transposed the sense. Huet has passed the same censure on him in his ‘De Interpretatione.’ Baronius, among others, has often been misled by Christopherson.

 CHRISTOPHERSON, MICHAEL (fl. 1613), catholic divine, received his education in the English college of Douay. He wrote ‘A Treatise of Antichrist, conteyning the defence of Cardinall Bellarmines arguments, which invincibly demonstrate that the pope is not Antichrist, aginst Dr. George Downam, who impugneth the same,’ first part, no place, 1613, 4to. This was a reply to ‘A Treatise concerning Antichrist,’ 1603, by George Downame, afterwards bishop of Derry.

 CHRISTY, HENRY (1810–1865), ethnologist, second son of William Miller Christy of Woodbines, Kingston-upon-Thames, well known as the inventor of receipt-stamp, was born 26 July 1810. Trained to business by his father, he became a partner in the house of Christy & Co. in Gracechurch Street, and succeeded his father as a director of the London Joint-Stock Bank, showing the same indomitable energy in commerce as in science.

In 1850 Christy began to visit foreign countries with the object of studying the characteristics of their inhabitants. His inclinations were strongly towards ethnology, and among the fruits of his first expedition to the East were an extensive collection of primitive Eastern fabrics, and a large series of specimens of native ligures from Cyprus, which are now in the British Museum.

The Great Exhibition of 1851 powerfully influenced Christy's mind, and he began the study of the primitive habits and customs of tribes. In 1852 and again in 1868, he travelled in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. The fine public collections of antiquities at Stockholm and Copenhagen were in revelation to him, and from this time he strove to collect the objects in use by savage tribes of the present day and of prehistoric periods. The year 1856 was devoted to America. Traveling over Canada, the United States and British Columbia, Christy met in Cuba a congenial companion in Mr. E. B. Tylor. The pair proceeded to Mexico, where Christy added very largely to the riches of his cabinet. Their Mexican travels were described by Mr. Tyler in his ‘Anahuac’ (London, 1861). In 1858 the high antiquity of man was first clearly proved by the discovery of flint implements in France and England. This doubtless led to Christy joining the Geological Society in 1868, and from this time his work was connected as much with geology as with archæology or ethnology. He now joined his friend the well-known French palæontologist M. Edouard Lartet, in the examination of the caves along the valley of the Vesere, a tributary of the Dordogne, in the south of France. Numerous remains are embedded in the stalagmite of these caves. Their thorough excavation was a long, difficult, and expensive work, but Christy ungrudgingly devoted to it both time and money. Thousands of interesting specimens were obtained, and many of these were at once distributed to the museums and scientific societies both of England and the continent, the remainder being added to a collection which was fast becoming unrivalled. In 1864 he wrote some account of the great work which was being 