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states of the Confederacy, much of the ma- chinery used being of his own design. With the close of the war and the defeat of the cause he had so ably espoused. Dr. ]\lallet returned to his profession, becoming a pro- fessor in the medical department of the Uni- versity of Louisiana, being in the service of this institution from 1865 to 1868. From the latter year until 1883 he was a profes- sor in the University of Virginia, then was lor one year a member of the faculty of the University of Texas, afterward teaching in Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia. He returned to ihe University of Virginia in 1885. The educational institutions and learned societies that have honored Dr. Mal- let with degrees and membership are many and widely dispersed. He was the recipient of the honorary degree of M. D. from the medical department of the University of Louisiana ; LL. D. from William and Mary College (1872), the University of Missis- sippi (1872), Princeton University (1896), and Johns Hopkins University (1902J. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London ; member of the English, French. German and American Chemical Societies, having been president of the American and vice-president 01 the Chemical Society of London ; asso- ciate fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston) ; member of the American Philosophical Society ; corre- sponding member of the New York Acad- emy of Sciences : member of the Academy of Science (^^'ashington, D. C.) ; fellow of the College of Physicians (Philadelphia); hon- orary member of the Medical and Chirur- gical Faculty of Maryland ; fellow of the Medical Society of Virginia; and honorary member of a Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) scien- tific society and of two scientific societies viR-12

of the City of Mexico. The most noted of scientific journals have printed the results of his researches along chemical lines, his j.iapers numbering about one hundred : three times a member of the United .States Assay Commission, his professional skill has been employed by the United States Board of Health in the chemical analysis of certain sources of water supply, and he is the author of the following works; "British Association Catalogue of Earthquakes" (in collaboration with his father, 1852-54), "Physical and Chemical Conditions of the Cultivation of Cotton" (London, i860), "Svliabus of a Course of Lectures on Gen- eral Chemistry" (1890, second edition, 1901 ). Dr. Mallet is a member of the Prot- estant Episcopal church, and, remaining a British subject, never acquired political al- legiance. He married (first) Mary Eliza- beth Ormond, (second) Mrs. Josephine (Pages) Burthe, and has children.

Christian, George Llewellyn, born April 13, 1841, in Charles City county, Virginia, son of Edmund Thomas Christian and Ta- bitha Rebecca Graves, his wife. His father's ancestor, Thomas Christian, settled in Charles City county, Virginia, in 1687, having come from a distinguished family in the Isle of Man His grandfather was Turner Chris- tian, who was a brother of Henry Christian, who was a captain in the revolutionary war. On his mother's side his ancestors were also English. Llis early education was obtained ar private schools, and in the Northwood and Taylorsville Academies of Charles City county. In 1861, when tw-enty years of age, he enlisted in the Confederate army as a -private in the Second Company of the Rich- mond Howitzers, with which he served un-